by Editorial Staff | Jun 5, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, C4ISR, Daily Rapid Fire, Engineering Vehicles, Europe - Other, Germany, India, Issues - Political, Logistics, Pre-RFP, Surface Ships - Other, Think Tanks, UAVs, USA
* Contributing to a sudden, redoubled effort from interest groups to pressure the US government into starting significant reforms at the Pentagon, the conservative National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and R Street Institute released a report [PDF] outlining yet another...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 4, 2013 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Japan, Legal, Lobbying, Nuclear Weapons, Policy - Doctrine, Russia, Signals Radio & Wireless, South Korea, Think Tanks, Turkey, UAVs, USA
* The US Navy posted a summary [obnoxious text-as-image format, because PDF would have been too easy] of the Air-Sea Battle (ASB) concept which even has its own office. Summary of the summary: the US needs to relearn how to fight enemies with better gear than...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 3, 2013 | Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, India, Israel, IT - Software & Integration, Think Tanks, USA
* Bloomberg reports, based on anonymous sources, that Israel is reviewing what types of systems it will buy from the US with American aid. New V-22s and used KC-135s are part of the talks. * Coming this Wednesday: the full FY14 authorization markup by the US House...
by Editorial Staff | May 31, 2013 | Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Boeing, Budgets, Canada, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Guns - Artillery & Mortars, India, Lockheed Martin, Medical, Official Reports, Partnerships & Consortia, Polar Regions, USA
* After almost 2 years of denial, US Defense Undersecretary Ashton Carter instructed the services to work on FY 14 and FY15 budgeting scenarios that span a range going from the president’s unrealistic FY14 budget to full sequestration (~10% lower). Give it...
by Joe Katzman | May 30, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Fighters & Attack, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, T&C - RAND Corp., Transformation, USA
F-35A test flight(click to view full) The $300+ billion, multi-national F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is the largest single military program in history. It’s also reaching a critical nexus. In order to keep costs under control and justify the industrial ramp...
