by Editorial Staff | Mar 14, 2013 | Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Pre-RFP, RFPs, Science - Basic Research
* Patty Murray [D-WA], Chairman of the US Senate Budget Committee, introduced the first Senate budget proposal in years with a plan that seeks to replace sequestration with smaller budget cuts mixed with tax increases. This outline professes to save “$240...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 13, 2013 | Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Israel, IT - Cyber-Security, Official Reports, USA
* Chairman of the US House Budget Committee Paul Ryan submitted a new decade-long budget outline [PDF] that includes lower levels of defense spending than the one he issued last year, or the plan he supported as a vice presidential candidate. The Congressional Budget...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 12, 2013 | Airbus, Asia - Central, Budgets, China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Forces - Naval, Israel, People, Policy - Doctrine, Think Tanks, UAVs, USA
* Pentagon CFO Bob Dale said furloughs can begin on April 26, with 22 days without pay for DoD civilian employees from then until Sept. 30. * A US Navy EA-6B Prowler from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA, crashed yesterday during a training flight. The 3 crew...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 11, 2013 | Africa - Other, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Daily Rapid Fire, IT - Cyber-Security, Legal, Middle East - Other, Russia, South Korea, USA
* The White House issued an Executive Order last Friday to delegate export control authority of defense articles to the Secretary of State. Changes to the U.S. Munitions List (USML) are on the way, to be enacted after a period of congressional notification. * North...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 8, 2013 | Bases & Infrastructure, Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, India, Issues - Political, Navistar, People, Scandals & Investigations, Think Tanks, USA
* The President Budget for FY14 may be delayed further to early April, in order to let Senate Democrats and the White House get in sync, according to the NYT. In the meantime Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is working on the...
