Defense

Navy Needs To Stick With Its Unmanned Combat Aircraft A few weeks ago in the California desert the Navy took the wraps off a weapon that could revolutionize war at sea. It’s the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS), a stealthy, unmanned plane as big . . .
The Defense Industry Outlook Through 2012 I've been asked to spend thirty minutes this morning assessing the outlook for the defense industry over the next several years -- the "Obama years," as they will probably come to known. Thirty minutes . . .
Does The Defense Industry Need To Be Restructured? Last summer the Defense Science Board issued a study entitled Creating an Effective National Security Industrial Base for the 21st Century. It warned that a crisis is coming because America's military . . .
Missile Defense: The Boost-Phase Advantage Ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads and other mechanisms of mass destruction are the most potent weapons that America’s defenders face. The number of ballistic missiles in global arsenals . . .
F-22 Deters Better Than Nuclear Weapons In Many Cases Lockheed Martin chief executive Robert J. Stevens made waves in the media recently by suggesting his company's F-22 fighter might serve as a substitute for nuclear weapons in deterring aggression. Stevens . . .
Economic Security: A George Bush Lesson for Mr. Obama Like Ebenezer Scrooge awakening on Christmas morning to the error of his ways, George W. Bush has belatedly discovered the danger of relying too much on market forces. Last week he agreed to provide bridge loans to . . .
THE ARMY NEEDS TO RETHINK ITS ARMORED VEHICLE STRATEGY The approval rate for the U.S. Congress has never been very high; it is one of the few political institutions that ranks below outgoing President Bush in the public’s favor. They are accused and convicted. . .
F-22 Fighter: Good for the Economy? On December 10 the New York Times ran a lengthy story by Christopher Drew about the Air Force's F-22 fighter, saying that Pentagon plans to terminate production of the plane put President-elect Barack . . .
Telling the Aerospace Story in an Era of Economic Decline This is just about the bleakest holiday season I can remember, thanks to the unwinding of economic excesses that built up earlier in the decade. I'm sure holidays were much worse during the Great Depression . . .
Navy Plan for Huge Network Looks Likely to Fail In October of 2000, during the waning days of the Clinton Administration, the Department of the Navy awarded the biggest information-services contract in the history of the. . .
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