Defense
Defense Acquisition Through 2012 I have been asked to spend 15 minutes describing the "givens" of U.S. defense acquisition through 2012, meaning the things that we can assume with high confidence will happen. . .
Buying Weapons: A Reform Agenda For The Next President On July 9, 1861, as the Union mobilized to fight the Confederacy, the New York Times editorialized that the War Department was too corrupt to equip soldiers successfully: "It would seem as if some potent . . .
FCS: The Logic of Future Combat Systems The Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is a family of ground combat vehicles and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft tied together by a high-capacity wireless network. It is the centerpiece . . .
Air Force Radar Plan Imperils Troops What's wrong with this picture? The Air Force plans to spend over a hundred billion dollars to buy 2,000 new fighters, but it can't find the money to upgrade a handful of radar planes with better technology for . . .
Missing Ingredient In Weapons Decisions: Common Sense Military expert Anthony Cordesman claims the Bush Administration has fielded "the worst wartime national security team in United States history." That's pretty harsh. LBJ and Nixon managed to . . .
Containing Iran: A Role For America’s Navy The growing rift between the Bush Administration and Pakistan’s new government over how to deal with militants operating in tribal areas along the Afghan border is a reminder that America’s global war . . .
Economic Security: A Decade Of Decline It looks like the economic history of the Bush era is going to end much the same way it began: with the government struggling to prevent a recession from turning into a depression. The downturn in President . . .
Boeing Fights Back: How It Plans To Prevail When Boeing executives heard last week that they had failed to beat Northrop Grumman in any of the five selection criteria for the Air Force's future aerial-refueling tanker, they were incredulous. Their . . .
GAO Myopia Increases Risk Of Nuclear Attack On U.S. In a recent report on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) program to deploy advanced detectors of nuclear materials, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) focuses on minutiae and . . .
Finally, Missile Defense That Works On February 20, 2008 a single modified Standard 3 missile (SM-3) launched by the Aegis cruiser Lake Erie hit and destroyed an errant U.S. intelligence satellite some 130 miles above the Earth. Culminating a . . .