Defense
Tanker Competition: Northrop Won By A Wide Margin
Last week Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS confounded expectations by beating incumbent Boeing for the contract to build the Air Force's next-generation aerial refueling tanker. The . . .
The Role Of Party Politics In Shaping Defense Priorities
Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight, discussing what may be the single most neglected factor in Army plans for the future. That factor is politics -- the process by which we periodically replace . . .
Army Fiscal Pressures Encourage Huge Depot To Innovate
The recent surge of forces in Iraq has proven so successful that the Army may soon begin revisiting prewar plans for the rationalization of its domestic logistics network. Supply centers and repair depots . . .
Invisible Man: Barack Obama On National Defense
Today's Democratic Party is so stridently opposed to the war in Iraq that it's hard to believe the same party presided over most of the big military buildups of the last century. Sometimes it seems more like the . . .
Fading Signal: The Neglect of Electronic Warfare
When you consider how much money Americans spend on defense -- about $4 trillion so far in this decade alone -- it's amazing what a poor job we do of maintaining our military arsenal. In the years since . . .
2009 Defense Budget: Key Patterns and Priorities
Today, the Bush Administration requested that Congress provide the Department of Defense with a baseline budget of $515 billion in fiscal 2009 (beginning October 1 of this year). It also requested $21 . . .
Powering JSF: One Engine Is Enough
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being developed to meet the future needs of three U.S. military services and eight foreign allies for an agile, affordable multi-role aircraft. It is expected to be the biggest military . . .
Future Combat Systems: Why The Army Is So Committed
With several of the big networking initiatives begun during Donald Rumsfeld's tenure as defense secretary beginning to implode, many observers are curious why the Army remains so committed to its . . .
Why Recruit Pentagon Leaders from the Defense Industry?
Running the Pentagon isn't most people's idea of fun. The hours are long, the criticism is constant, and the pay isn't much higher than the median household income in nearby Fairfax County. So it is getting . . .
Deal Of The Century: Who Will Win The Tanker Competition?
Sometime in February, the Pentagon's Defense Acquisition Board will meet to ratify a plan for what looks likely to be the biggest purchase of wide-body aircraft in the world during the early decades of the . . .