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Keeping America Competitive: The Military Needs To Limit Its Industrial Roles During the Cold War, the U.S. military acquired a vast network of public-sector industrial facilities and private-sector suppliers. Over time, a division of labor emerged between . . .
Improving on Success: Expanding the Use of Prime Contractors for Soldier Clothing and Equipment The individual soldier is the U.S. Army’s most important and frequently deployed asset. As such it is imperative that the soldier be provided the best clothing and individual equipment. The right clothing is a combat multiplier because it allows U.S. soldiers to operate under conditions that the enemy cannot.
The Contribution Of The Jones Act To U.S. Security The United States has always had a special relationship to water. It is a nation founded from the sea. Its interior was explored and linked to the sea via mighty rivers and . . .
Human Spaceflight: Mars Is The Destination That Matters NASA’s human spaceflight program has been gradually losing ground since the Challenger disaster 25 years ago. Retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet and cancellation of the Bush Administration’s Constellation . . .
Enabling The Carrier Strike Group: The Role Of The E-2 And C-2 A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) is the most powerful, mobile and flexible aggregation of military capability in the 21st Century. A CSG is fully capable of supporting operations across the . . .
Dressing For Success: Equipping The 21st Century Warfighter Quickly And Efficiently United States ground forces entered Iraq and Afghanistan poorly equipped to deal with the challenges of protracted dismounted operations. While “equipping the man” has long been a maxim for land forces, . . .
Next Generation Jammer: Essential Protection In The Digital Age Electronic devices dominate modern combat. Warfighters depend on access to the electromagnetic spectrum to communicate with friendly forces, track enemy movements, navigate in the fog of war, collect . . .
Reform WITH RESULTS For New Jersey Schools New Jersey’s court-ordered strategies for fixing fundamental shortcomings in educational quality in the state’s poorest schools have produced aggressive increases in state funding. But the quality of education in most of these schools has not improved commensurate to this spike.
Empowering Partners: A Strategy For Helping Allies Share The Security Burden Today, the United States has the opportunity to create a new, more flexible, collaborative approach to the organization, management and support of friends and allies. The Obama Administration has put . . .
P-8A Poseidon: A New Model For Military Procurement The Navy is developing a military version of the widely used Boeing 737 airliner to serve as its next-generation maritime patrol aircraft. Designated the P-8A Poseidon, the . . .