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Pentagon Commission: $25B/Year Savings to Be Had

Pentagon Commission: $25B/Year Savings to Be Had

by | Jan 26, 2015 | Budgets, Corporate Innovations, Force Structure, Industry & Trends, Leadership & People, Logistics, Logistics Innovations, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Policy - Personnel, Policy - Procurement, Project Failures, Project Management, Project Methodologies, Project Successes, Think Tanks, Transformation, USA

The Pentagon’s Defense Business Bureau, an advisory group designed to give private sector expertise to senior leaders, announced its global analysis of DoD practices found potential savings of about $25 billion per year, to be squeezed mostly out of logistics,...
Pentagon Commission: $25B/Year Savings to Be Had

Drug Smugglers Beating DHS at Drone War with <1% Budget

by | Jan 23, 2015 | Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Lobbying, Radars, Satellites & Sensors, Scandals & Investigations, Sensors & Guidance, Signals Radio & Wireless, Submarines, UAVs

* A Mexican drug operation appears to have operationalized cross-border drug smuggling with helicopter drones. One device – what appears to be a DJI SPreadwings S900 Multi-rotor System, which retails for $1,400 – fell into a Tijuana parking lot after being...
Pentagon Commission: $25B/Year Savings to Be Had

U.S. Military Environmental Liabilities Tempered by Lax Policies of Yore

by | Jan 22, 2015 | Boeing, Brazil, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Engines - Aircraft, Fighters & Attack, GE, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Pre-RFP, Radars, RAFAEL, Raytheon, Russia, Sensors - Aquatic, Sensors & Guidance, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other, USA, UUVs & USVs

* Military bases are often home to environmental disasters, and mitigation costs are significant enough today that it exerts a real and behavior-changing influence on the U.S. military. But the liabilities are not considered “strict liabilities” as federal...