by Editorial Staff | Aug 14, 2012 | Alliances, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Legal, Russia, UAVs
* At a panel hosted by the Center for the National Interest, Grover Norquist argued against any tax increases to sustain what he views as an excessively interventionist foreign policy. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, got many Republican congressmen to...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 13, 2012 | ABM, Africa - Other, Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Brazil, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Germany, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Israel, Japan, RAFAEL, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, Surface Ships - Combat, United Technologies
* The US military’s hardened high-bandwidth AEHF-2 satellite has reached geostationary orbit successfully, without drama. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a big relief. AEHF-1’s propulsion had major technical failures, forcing the biggest...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 12, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Europe - Other, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Precision Attack, USA
JASSM-ER from B-1B(click to view full) The 2,000 pound AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is intended to be a stealthy, inexpensive GPS/IIR (Global Positioning system/ Imaging InfraRed) guided cruise missile that lets American aircraft attack...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 10, 2012 | Canada, China, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Cyber-Security, Japan, Legal, UAVs, USA
* Commander of US Fleet Forces Admiral J. C. Harvey, Jr. thinks that actions undertaken to reverse a trend [PDF] of degrading fleet readiness are starting to pay off. Challenges remain though, including Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), a mission that is “complex...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 9, 2012 | Alliances, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Issues - Political, Think Tanks, USA
* When you scrub the Pentagon’s budget hard enough, you find money that was not spent and can either be de-obligated, reallocated through rescissions, or has to be returned to the Treasury (in the case of expired accounts [PDF]). This happens on the margins of...
