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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John Keller	DOD to cut unmanned aerial vehicle procurement by one third over next decade The early years of the 21st century have seen explosive growth in U.S. Department of Defense purchases of unmanned aerial vehicles, but DOD is expected to cut UAV procurement by one-third over the next decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	Reductions eyed for battle management and information technology spending Pentagon spending for network-centric warfare technology over the next decade could see real declines, and at best will remain flat, industry experts say.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John Keller	Defense spending: Is the ride over? U.S. defense spending over the last decade is peaking in fiscal year 2006, which began Oct. 1, and will begin a slow downward slide at least through 2016.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 John Keller	Defense industry upbeat; military spending to stay healthy over next decade Predictions released last month say that U.S. defense spending will grow to an annual $609.4 billion over the next decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John Keller	Defense budgets headed down, no matter who's in the White House In fact, fuel prices should have a much broader influence on defense spending over the next several years than who's resident in the White House.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	Impending Change of Administration Expected to Slow Federal IT Spending Federal spending for information technology (IT) will grow moderately -- most of it after 2011, say analysts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	DOD Proposes 3.2 Percent Spending Increase on Electronics and Communications in 2011 Budget Set to Reach $17.45 Billion Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $17.45 billion in fiscal year 2011 for procurement and research in military communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Military Aircraft Funding to Peak This Year, Decline Over Next Decade U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	The DOD Budget is Out, and the News is Good The Obama Administration's military budget proposals for next year are out, and we can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
National Defense March 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Budget Sets Stage for Tough Choices Ahead As Congress continues to dissect the details of the Bush administration's proposed defense budget for fiscal year 2008, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the nation's military faces a worrisome financial future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	DOD Electronics Spending to Drop Along with Overall Decline in Procurement Leaders of the DOD propose spending slightly more than $28.1 billion in fiscal year 2008 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies, which would represent a 4% decrease from current-year levels.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp	Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
National Defense March 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	QDR Lays Out Strategy, But Can We Afford It? At first glance, the fiscal year 2007 defense budget reflects the arduous challenges facing the administration in trying to balance long-term strategy and requirements against immediate priorities and fiscal pressures.
National Defense March 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	The Budget Realities We Must Face As Congress deliberates at length on the fine points of the Bush administration's fiscal year 2006 budget request for the Defense Department, it may be an appropriate time to take a broader look at the potential implications of the Pentagon's spending plan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	DOD Set to Boost Spending for Communications, Electronics, and Intelligence Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $29.16 billion in 2009 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	Defense Spending Set to Increase for Electronics and Electro-Optics Programs in 2007 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense propose spending nearly $21.3 billion in fiscal year 2007 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Election Aftermath: What's in it for the Military? One potential target of the new Congress is the large supplemental spending budgets that fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Cash-Flow Troubles Continue Despite Hefty Emergency Allowance For the Army, the upcoming budget season is shaping up to be a competition between "boots" and "hardware," even though officials have argued that they should not have to trade one for the other.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing modest increases in procurement and research for the U.S. Navy, yet the U.S. Air Force faces small reductions and the U.S. Army is facing cuts of more than 17 percent.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	The elusive military optoelectronics market Optical technology is more important for military and aerospace applications today than ever before
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National Defense September 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Next Pentagon Procurement 'Bow Wave' Will Be a Tsunami With the Defense Department now facing a precipitous drop in new equipment purchases over the next two years, the green-eyeshade crowd already is predicting a huge bow wave for 2018 and beyond, which could be the biggest one yet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Lead-Free Issues Continue to Plague Mil-Aero Market, Says DMEA Engineer The lead-free movement has a greater impact on the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) than the commercial market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller	The big defense cuts that didn't happen Many of the anticipated big cuts in the Pentagon's 2006 budget request have simply failed to materialize - yet. The U.S. Department of Defense budget request contains solid funding for electronics-rich programs such as the Air Force F/A-22 fighter-bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and the Army Future Combat System.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	2009 DOD budget: A Safe Bet We'll have a new president by the time the next DOD budget request comes out, and Bush looks like he has left any hard decisions up to the next chief executive.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	2011 DOD Budget Proposes Increases in Procurement, Cuts in Research, in Overall Stable Request The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is asking Congress for $708 billion in federal fiscal year 2011 to support the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Pentagon Budget Faces Tough Battle on Capitol Hill President George W. Bush for 2008 has submitted to Congress one of the largest-ever budget requests for the U.S. DOD, but the Pentagon's proposed budget faces perhaps its toughest battle in Congress in the last 15 years.
National Defense February 2016 Sandra I. Erwin	CEOs Not Yet Ready to Take a Gamble Defense executives don't have clear answers as they weigh investment choices in an uncertain market.
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IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	Advice for the Next U.S. President: Fix Military Acquisitions Several leading defense acquisition experts offer a few observations and recommendations for the next president.
National Defense December 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Mighty Pentagon Can't Deny Market Forces Market forces are such that the Defense Department could be headed toward a future of greater dependence on fewer and increasingly more powerful monopolies.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
Chemistry World October 12, 2007 Rebecca Trager	Leaked Memo Warns US Defense Research Spend 'Inadequate' The US Department of Defense's science and technology spending is 'inadequate' to address security threats, the department's own chief technologist has warned in an internal memo accidentally posted last month.
CFO October 1, 2004 Julia Homer	Pentagon Priorities Financial reform at the Department of Defense is hindered by an element that could guarantee failure even if every other obstacle were eliminated: lack of a consistent leader.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Patrick Rayermann	Exploiting Commercial SATCOM: A Better Way The Defense Department and the US military have committed themselves to using commercial satellite communications to augment their organic SATCOM capabilities. The DOD should adopt better business practices to obtain more favorable lease terms.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
CFO October 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick	Losing Battles Two decades of failed Pentagon financial reforms put more than just dollars at risk. And serious reform in so enormous an organization will still take a Herculean effort.
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IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Intellectual Disconnect The process used to procure major weapons systems is supposed to run apolitically. The actual process is anything but
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Susan Hassler	Driving the DOD Toward Change This is the time for verifiable oversight, true accountability, and rigorous project management at the Department of Defense.
Scientific American March 13, 2006 Daniel G. Dupont	Software Insecurity A good deal of code for some of the military's most sophisticated weapons -- fighter aircraft and missile defense systems, for example -- is written in other countries, creating an obvious risk to national security.