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National Defense
October 2013
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Budget Picture Begins to Take Shape Major adjustments will be required across the defense community -- the military services, agencies, commands and industry. Significant decisions are becoming harder and harder to duck.   |
National Defense
September 2011
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Budget Control Act of 2011 Forces Real Cuts to Defense, and Difficult Choices Enactment of the Budget Control Act of 2011 now provides specific information on the future course of defense spending. |
National Defense
August 2010
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
'Perfect Storm' for Defense Is Here, For Real This Time There have been many warnings in recent years about a "perfect storm" threatening U.S. defense spending. These dire predictions so far have not been taken seriously as military budgets doubled during the past decade. |
National Defense
September 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Plans to 'In-Source' Contractor Jobs Collide With Fiscal Reality As he unveiled a new wave of austerity measures at the Defense Department, Secretary Robert Gates made a striking acknowledgment: Replacing contractors with government employees does not really save money. |
National Defense
November 2010
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Defense Spending: Today's 'Broken' Budgeting Process Must Change The defense budget process is a balancing act, where selected segments of the government and industry determine the allocation of resources to a vast array of requirements. The process, however, has not worked. |
National Defense
October 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. |
National Defense
August 2009
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Acquisition Work Force Reform Will Require Steady Commitment Defense Secretary Robert Gates announces a program to improve the capacity and capability of the Pentagon's work force by converting contractor positions to government jobs, as well as hiring more public servants by 2015. |
CIO
August 15, 2002
Simone Kaplan |
Marching in Sync Integration is difficult in the best of circumstances. When you're the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and your integration project involves four branches of the military and dozens of government agencies, it's an almost insurmountable challenge. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Roxana Tiron |
Defense Contractors Brace for the Big Squeeze Defense contractors may be in for cutbacks similar to the squeeze that occurred after the end of the Cold War. |
National Defense
September 2009
Gregory S. Martin |
Achieving Balance Over Time Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been articulate and decisive in moving the Defense Department, military services and agencies toward a more "balanced" force. But will this balance be applicable in years to come? |
Wired
October 2009
Noah Shachtman |
Robert Gates: Overhaul the Pentagon Every secretary of defense talks about changing the Pentagon, then almost immediately gets stymied by bureaucratic resistance. However, Robert Gates' talk is turning into action. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2011
Esterhuizen & Sellitti |
Military Cuts: Aerospace and Defense Stocks Being Dumped by the Smart Money So how will aerospace and defense stocks react to the expected budget cuts? |
National Defense
July 2010
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Budget Debate: Resources Should Match the Strategy Defense Secretary Robert Gates in recent speeches has covered the waterfront of the financial challenges facing the defense establishment as well as the nation. |
National Defense
December 2005
Michael Peck |
Joint Staff Officers Often Unprepared for New Jobs Military officers assigned to newly-created "joint staff" jobs arrive with little or no training on how to function in a multi-service environment. |
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises. |
National Defense
February 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Services Look to Industry for Emergency Notification Systems Following the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid out requirements for the services to implement a mass notification system to alert personnel of an emergency. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
Ben Ames |
Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
CES: Gates to Deliver His Final Vision After 13 years, Microsoft's Bill Gates prepares to give his last keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. |
Parameters
Spring 2005
Saxby Chambliss |
We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2010
Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors. |
National Defense
June 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building. |
National Defense
January 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry. |
Parameters
Autumn 2008
Mark Cancian |
Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future. |
National Defense
April 2011
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
For Defense Industry, the Path Forward Is Still Clouded by Uncertainty For industry, what does this all mean? One industry professional has described the current environment as "Eisenhower's big nightmare." Could a reasonably competitive industry survive large reductions in funding? |
National Defense
July 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Procurement Blues: After a Decade Of Largesse, Not Much to Show for It After a decade of lavish spending, the Pentagon is now left with an aging fleet of weapon systems, an overstrained force, out-of-control personnel and healthcare costs, and no idea of how to prepare for tomorrow's wars. |
National Defense
May 2005
Lawrence P. Farrell |
Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology. |
National Defense
November 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Pentagon Still Undecided on Policies to Protect Contractors As contractors increasingly fall in the cross hairs of insurgents in Iraq, the Defense Department is struggling to figure out how to account for them, provide for their security and, if necessary, rescue them. |
National Defense
July 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Next Combat Vehicle: Cheaper and Simpler The Army lost a bruising battle to save its Future Combat Systems. Now the service is hoping that it can pick up the pieces and move on, although it's not yet clear how. |
National Defense
May 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Despite Advances, Air Strikes Fall Short of Expectations The Joint Forces Command will launch a demonstration program this year to improve communications between the armed services and the intelligence communities. The goal is to decrease the time it takes to put bombs on elusive terrorist targets. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Rich Smith |
Pentagon Unveils Crystal Ball Defense Secretary Gates says that the military needs to start preparing for "the wars we are most likely to fight -- not just the wars we're best suited to fight." Which companies stand to benefit from this? |
