* 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 -$820M in RDTE, for a total $37.2B shortfall.
* If you’re a small business or subcontracting to small businesses, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and the DoD Office of Small Business Programs are hosting a training seminar for you on June 21 in Alexandria, VA. Topics: accounting systems, contract briefings, provisional rate structures and subcontract monitoring of small business contracts.
* DARPA’s Strategic Technologies Office (STO) will host an industry meeting on July 16/17 to describe its areas of interest: Battle Management, Command and Control (BMC2), Communications and Networks, Electronic Warfare, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). There will also be a presentation on the Air Dominance Initiative (ADI).
* The industry-backed Lexington Institute has a paper [PDF] on when defense contracting should be competitive, and when competition doesn’t work so well.
* Meanwhile the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) briefed [PDF] congressmen on what should be the drivers and framework that guide US force structure planning.
* The Manila Standard quotes an anonymous source saying the Philippines is considering buying surface-to-air missiles and multiple launch rocket systems from Israel.
* The video below provides a glimpse of how USAF weapons crews load up bombs, missiles and ammo on A-10s:
