by Editorial Staff | Mar 20, 2013 | DID site, Sharpen yourself
DID’s Google Drive – we OD on DOD OCD so you don’t have to We at Defense Industry Daily maintain a Google Drive repository filled with more than 2,000 painstakingly selected, renamed and labeled PDF/Word/PPT/XLS files focused on major defense...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 20, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Leadership & People, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, USA
* Senator Kelly Ayotte [R-NH] tried but failed to scrap MEADS funding (alternatively for termination or development) with an amendment to the Senate’s continuing resolution/minibus HR 933 bill. The CR contains language at odds with the FY authorization law as...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 19, 2013 | Asia - Central, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Legal, Official Reports
* The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined 4 options [PDF] that should allow the Pentagon to remain within budget growth constraints set by the Budget Control Act once translated to constant dollars (i.e. once inflation has taken its toll). Their scenarios play...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 18, 2013 | Africa - Other, Asia - Other, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, India, Israel, People, USA
* The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) research on trends in international arms transfers for 2012 puts China among the top 5 weapons exporters thanks to their sales to Pakistan. The top 5 importers, led by India, are all in Asia – which...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 17, 2013 | Budgets, China, Industry & Trends, USA
Take with a whole salt shaker The UK’s long-established International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) recently published a Military Balance 2013 report which makes some reasonable observations about the current state of global affairs, but unquestioning...
