Defense
Take the Time to Get LCS Systems Right
The key to enhancing the flexibility and responsiveness of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), as discussed in Richard Burgess's article ("Fast Swap," February issue), is in the integration of both . . .
Performance Based Logistics and the Army Industrial Enterprise
In today’s world, businesses manage vast, global flows of goods and products through advanced logistics systems that guarantee rapid, on-time and error-free delivery to customers worldwide. Continuous . . .
Lucent’s Last Act Reflects Tech-Security Dilemma
When Lucent Technologies is absorbed into France's Alcatel later this year, the curtain will fall on the greatest technology enterprise in American history. Lucent is the successor to the old Western Electric . . .
Avoiding A Hollow Military
This is the second in a series of seminars organized by the Heritage Foundation to address a very important and deceptively simple question: does the U.S. military have adequate resources to maintain a . . .
Military Acquisition: The Process is the Problem
It seems defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld got a chance to do some reading over the holidays, because on his first day back at work he sent military leaders one of his signature "snowflake" memo's alerting . . .
The Impact of Iraq on Army Equipment
I'd like to speak for a few minutes today about the impact that the war in Iraq is having on the Army's arsenal of weapons and other warfighting equipment. The reason I am focusing on the Army is that it has borne most of the burden of prosecuting the military . . .
Technology Lessons from Iraq
Is it possible that military transformation made defeat more likely in Iraq? That's a heretical idea in the doctrinal madrassa that is Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, where every operational innovation is reflexively . . .
Pentagon Incompetence Hastens U.S. Industrial Decline
If you think the controversy over who should run America's ports is just about terrorism, then you haven't seen U.S. trade statistics recently. The "arsenal of democracy" -- that vast manufacturing . . .
Navy Relevance Hinges on Networks
With a small band of insurgents threatening to bog down U.S. forces in Iraq indefinitely, some people are beginning to wonder what the point of military transformation was supposed to be. It's a reasonable . . .
Multi-tasking Subs
The nation’s submarine force is at flank speed ahead on multiple fronts. Submarines are making critical contributions to the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The community is looking toward increasing the . . .