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Decision Week For The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle This may be the week that the future of the U.S. Marine Corps is decided. In separate meetings with defense secretary Robert Gates, Marine Corps commandant Gen. James Conway and Navy secretary Ray Mabus . . .
Trade Subsidies: Airbus Loses Again On September 15, the World Trade Organization will release interim findings to the parties in its ongoing review of U.S. aircraft subsidies. The case was launched by European governments in response . . .
Army Plan To Modernize Armored Vehicles Makes Sense It's tempting to look at the Army's cancellation of the solicitation for a next-generation troop carrier and conclude that the service has lost its way in figuring out how to meet future combat needs. . . .
Gates Is Right: An Extra Engine For F-35 Wastes Money It is now four years since the defense department decided it didn't need to develop two different engines for its single-engine F-35 fighter, and stopped requesting money for the second engine. Since . . .
Gates Struggling To Prevent Defense Cuts By Congress History will remember Robert Gates as the defense secretary who averted U.S. military defeat in Iraq. Right now, though, he is struggling to prevent a different kind of military setback: congressional . . .
The Defense Industry’s Summer Of Discontent Last week, the top executives of the U.S. defense industry met with defense secretary Robert Gates and his key subordinates to discuss Pentagon plans for reducing the cost of doing business. Gates told . . .
Pentagon Efficiency Drive Neglects Its Best Tool Defense department acquisition chief Ashton Carter has begun an efficiency initiative aimed at reducing overhead costs by $100 billion during the 2012-2016 period. Carter notes that most of the Pentagon's . . .
EFV Debate Is Really About The Future Of The Marine Corps Inside the Navy, a defense newsletter, reported last week that Pentagon policymakers have decided to take the advice of the Government Accountability Office and review whether the business case . . .
Tanker Deadline Arrives With Key Concern Unresolved Sometime in the next two weeks, the Boeing Company and European aerospace giant EADS must submit their proposals for the next round of competition in the Air Force tanker solicitation. The deadline is . . .
Changing Defense Budget Environment Drives Shift In Company Strategies The defense business isn't like other sectors of the U.S. economy. There is only one customer that matters -- the federal government -- and that customer's behavior often diverges from what we would . . .
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