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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.   |
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
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Robert N. Charette |
Understanding Failure by Examining Success In defense acquisitions, success is an aberration. But to understand why these programs routinely fail, it's instructive to study those that have succeeded |
National Defense
September 2014 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Problems in DoD Acquisitions... Budget Fights... Nonlethal Weapons... |
National Defense
April 2006
Sandra Erwin |
Defense Procurement: Hard Decisions `Kicked Down the Road' Will the escalating costs of the war in Iraq and the rising price tags of weapon systems eventually result in the cliched Defense Department budget train wreck so many analysts have predicted for several years now? |
National Defense
January 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Acquisition Reform Act: The Backlash Has Begun It's only been seven months since President Obama signed the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Predictably, a chorus of disapproval already is being heard. |
National Defense
May 2010
Harvey M. Sapolsky |
The False Promises of Acquisition Reform Despite meetings, laws, and hearings on acquisition reform, cost overruns, schedule slippages, and performance lapses still plague nearly all weapon system acquisitions. |
National Defense
September 2004
David M. Walker |
Defense Transformation: A Battle the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose A crunch is coming. Although national defense and homeland security have received generous funding in recent years, this cannot continue indefinitely. Defense budgets of the future almost certainly will be tighter. It is time to recognize that we are in a fiscal hole, and stop digging. |
National Defense
December 2010
Tom Captain |
Defense Affordability: Can We Buy Only What We Need? Military acquisition budgets globally are flattening out and declining. Large scale multi-billion dollar programs are running over budget and being delayed. |
CFO
Tim Reason |
Federal Offenses A dozen years after passage of the CFO act, the U.S. Government still struggles to close its books... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Parameters
November 2004
Augustus W. Fountain Iii |
Transforming Defense Basic Research Strategy The US armed forces currently enjoy an unprecedented level of technological superiority across the full spectrum of military threats. |
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Lori Calabro |
The GAO's David Walker Why David M. Walker decided he could spread the word about the government's fiscal maladies more effectively by moving to private life. |
National Defense
May 2009
William Y. Bishop |
Pentagon Acquisition Rules Exacerbate Problems The defense industry has launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington saying that future reductions in acquisition funding will put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk. |
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. |
National Defense
May 2008
Alan L. Gropman |
Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry Uncertainty about future conflicts and the capabilities of potential enemies raise complex questions about what weaponry the U.S. military will need to counter a wide spectrum of threats. |
World War II
Max Gadney |
Weapons Manual - Birth of the Bazooka Want to know how bazookas in World War II worked? Check out this Weapons Manual. |
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
June 2005
Sandra Erwin |
Procurement Probes Framed By Bleak Financial Forecast A string of procurement debacles at the Defense Department has stirred, yet again, calls for drastic reforms in military acquisition rules and policies. |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004
John Rhea |
Outlook Uneasy for Federal Science Support Given the current unsettled nature of the nation's economy, companies in the advanced-technology industries are going to have to do some serious scouting if they hope to maintain a healthy federal government business. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
To Those Who Hate Taser The weapons company reports another stellar quarter. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2008
Brian Orelli |
AOB Is A-OK Growing through acquisitions seems to be working. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2011 |
Microsoft Loses Two Acquisition Execs Microsoft bids farewell to two leaders of its mergers and acquisitions division, including the executive who was enmeshed in the company's effort to purchase Yahoo in 2008. |
National Defense
December 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Air Force Mulling Over Programs to Kill, Protect Satellites in Space Warfare Much to the consternation of advocates who oppose the use of arms in space, the Air Force is speaking bluntly about its right and intention to explore the orbital deployment of weapons platforms. |
National Defense
September 2009
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Program Terminations Invariably Have Unintended Consequences One of the most controversial decisions was to end the F-22 fighter program at 187 aircraft. Some pundits, defense intellectuals and even government officials have contended that the F-22 is a Cold War weapon that is not needed for today's world. |
