* Following an audit by the Pentagon’s Inspector General, the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is seeking a refund from Boeing for excessive charges on spare parts. * A judge from a US District Court in Ohio ruled against [PDF] United Technologies in a...
* President Obama announced the US will try to talk the Taliban – via an office the insurgents set in Qatar – into accepting “an Afghan constitution that renounces ties with al Qaeda, ends violence and is committed to the protection of women and...
* The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission lists [PDF] reported Chinese UAV projects, and predicts that the USA’s own policies will give China the export opening they need. China may not be ready immediately, but note that the Saudis are already...
* The US DoD Comptroller published a report [PDF] on the financial impact of sequestration on DoD’s discretionary budget authority in Fiscal Year 2013. That boils down -$20.3B for Personnel, -$9..8B for Operations & Maintenance, -$6B in procurement, and...
DoD logistics post-sequester: a self-assessment Ed. note: we continue our coverage of last week’s NDIA’s National Logistics Forum. Lt. Gen. Brooks L. Bash, Director for Logistics at the Joint Staff, centered his presentation on the constraints that...