Early Warning Blog
DoD’s Sophie’s Choice Moment: Choosing between Strategic and Conventional Forces How does a parent choose which one of her two children to sacrifice in order that the other will live? This is the choice that confronts Sophie in William Styron’s eponymous novel. If this seems like a dilemma fit only for novels and not real life, not ...
BAE Systems, General Dynamics Disclose Leadership Shifts At Defense Innovation Hubs (From Forbes) The first week in December brought news of important leadership changes in the most innovative segment of the U.S. defense industry. At BAE Systems, Inc. Chief Operating Officer Tom Arseneault assumed the additional role of President with its electron ...
2015 NDAA Holds Air Force’s Feet To The Fire On RD-180 Replacement The Air Force is running out of wiggle room when it comes to developing an American replacement for the Russian rocket engine that powers the Atlas V space launch vehicle. According to a report in yesterday’s DefenseNews, the Senate and House conferees ...
Ashton Carter Is An Inspired Choice To Lead The Pentagon (From Forbes) When it comes to picking political appointees, Ashton (Ash) Carter is about as good as it gets. The former Deputy Secretary of Defense is apparently the White House's choice to replace Chuck Hagel in the Pentagon's top job, and a review of Carter's re ...
With the Right Incentives Defense Companies Can Give DoD A Better Deal Two of the biggest shopping days of the Christmas season, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are based on a simple economic proposition: with the right incentives both buyers and sellers can optimize their interests. For the seller it is revenues and profi ...
After Hagel: How Budget Caps Are Bankrupting America’s Military (From Forbes) Like a bankrupt enterprise, America's military no longer has the resources necessary to meet its core commitments. The culprit is an arcane budget process called sequestration that threatens to cut defense spending $55 billion each year through the en ...
U.S. Army Heads Back To The Future In Europe Until recently, the U.S. Army thought it had been unshackled from its Cold War past and paroled from its imprisonment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it was free to develop new operational concepts, tactics and capabilities with which to address the threa ...
Playing “Whack a Mole” with the Global Jihadist Threat is Both Costly and Ineffective The current approach to dealing with the global jihadist threat has been not unfairly characterized as using the military to “whack-a-mole.” This means that military force is applied in small packages across the world to kill individual terrorists, for ...
A Dynamic Model for Catholic Education Cristo Rey schools provide an exemplary model, one that is growing and expanding and could revitalize the realization of Catholic schools nationwide. The network opened a new school in California's Silicon Valley this fall; San Jose Jesuit, a Cristo Rey school, has created a smart, sophisticated technology learning model to enhance and empower teacher instruction, while exclusively serving underprivileged youth.
DoD Cannot Command Industry To Go Forth And Innovate Like King Canute ordering the tides to recede, the Department of Defense (DoD) has ordered its contractors to provide more innovation. Last weekend, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced the Defense Innovation Initiative, described as an ambitious ...