by Editorial Staff | Mar 22, 2013 | Brazil, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fuel & Power, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Russia, South Korea, Think Tanks, Turkey, USA
* The Pentagon has decided to delay the issuance of furloughs for its civilian employees by a couple of weeks. * President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy made a surprisingly candid and lucid speech [PDF] at an event held by the European Defense Agency:...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 21, 2013 | Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, France, India, Lockheed Martin
* The US Senate passed HR 933 with a 73-26 roll call to fund DoD and the rest of the federal government until September 30, after considering a final batch of amendments. The bill goes back to the House today, and it looks like a done deal. Update: indeed, as the...
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...
