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National Defense November 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Fiscal Cliff Watch: Running Out of Time to Fix the Mess If the House and Senate fail to act in the coming weeks, massive federal spending cuts will kick in Jan. 2. That is when the automatic sequester -- scheduled by law to implement phase two of the Budget Control Act of 2011 -- becomes effective.
National Defense April 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	In the Grips of Crises Abroad and at Home When considering the nation's budget problems at home -- how do we fund increasingly expensive government programs, keep faith with all promises and underwrite U.S. security and worldwide commitments? The answer is that we cannot do it all.
National Defense November 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell	Plenty of Resources, But Even Greater Demand The politics of military spending have reached fever pitch as Congress attempts to pass the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 budget and weighs massive war spending requests.
National Defense March 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	DoD Needs a Real Budget, Not a Partial Fix As the budget standoff continues on Capitol Hill, it is almost certain that sequester soon will be upon the nation. Automatic, across-the-board budget cuts will affect discretionary spending government wide. But everyone wonders how it will all be sorted out.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Break its Addiction to Supplementals? This Gotterdammerung -- also known as the end of supplemental budgets -- is being met with a mix of anxiety and resignation.
National Defense June 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Fiscal Fight Takes Toll on Military Readiness During fiscal year 2013, the Defense Department was funded by temporary measures, or continuing resolutions, that put a huge crimp on operations and maintenance spending.
National Defense August 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Support for U.S. Troops Should Always Rise Above Partisan Politics Heated debate continues over the impact of $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts to the federal budget that could begin next year.
National Defense December 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Causing Lasting Damage to Defense Sequestration, if continued on present course, will result in serious damage and degradation to U.S. military capability and to our national security writ large.
National Defense April 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Budget: Some Clues Have Emerged, But More Uncertainty Ahead The political season is upon us, and much of the rhetoric adds little visibility to the direction for defense.
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 May 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	New Budget Spells More Uncertainty for DoD President Barack Obama sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $526.6 billion for fiscal year 2014. That top line, however, ignores the fact that it would be subject to a $52 billion sequester cut, as Congress mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011.
National Defense April 2015 Arnold L. Punaro	The Case for Repealing Sequestration This year will either be a turning point away from sequester levels or the ship of state will crash head on into the sequester iceberg resulting in a titanic disaster.
National Defense December 2014 Lawrence Farrell Jr.	Time to Get Serious About Tough Problems Our increasingly complex and intense military operations need political support, funding and national understanding, in addition to a clear definition of what is to be expected.
National Defense May 2012 Berteau & Murdock	Defense Department Must Prepare for Deeper Budget Cuts The post-election bargaining over taxes and government spending will be intense and hard-fought. The Defense Department needs to make it clear to all the players what the real consequences for the nation's security are of ill-considered, deep cuts to a defense budget that is already on the decline.
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 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Impact: More Than Meets the Eye The downside to falling unemployment is that total employment remains down, and as a percentage of the workforce it is at a historic low. But pundits generally agree that this sequester thing has been overstated and overblown.
National Defense May 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Pressures Beg for a Serious Look at Overhauling Acquisition System Perhaps it is time to go back to the future by doing things the way we did them in the past, when the chiefs and the military leadership were deeply involved in all aspects of equipping the service -- in requirements, in budgeting for equipping and training.
National Defense October 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Let's Face It: There Is No Shelter From the Fast Rising $$ Storm Defense faces a more than $50 billion reduction per year if sequestration is allowed to occur. Cuts through 2017 of 21 percent are less than the 35 percent reduction after the Cold War wound down, but sequester makes the cut totally arbitrary.
National Defense June 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	For Defense, a Tough Budget Balancing Act Will fiscal year 2016 be a repeat of 2013, when gridlock prevailed and sequester ensued. Will there be some relief as we saw in fiscal year 2014 and 2015?
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	The Defense Budget Showdown Funding for the Defense Department in fiscal year 2016 remains clouded with uncertainty as President Barack Obama and the GOP continue to spar over the federal budget.
National Defense January 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Deal Gives Defense Breathing Room The budget agreement that Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., announced Dec. 10 called for delaying a portion of sequester for two years and proposed $85 billion in "light touch" savings over 10 years.
National Defense September 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Fight Continues as Details Emerge and SecDef Amps Up Rhetoric As the potential impact of sequestration begins to settle in -- and details of its impact begin to emerge -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is elevating his rhetoric.
Reason May 2008 Veronique de Rugy	The Trillion-Dollar War The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I -- but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Budget Cuts Are Only Prelude to Future 'Grand Bargain' Politicians and think tanks have been hyperventilating over the $487 billion budget cut that the Pentagon will have to make during the next decade.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Continuing Resolutions Bind the Pentagon If lawmakers continue funding the government through continuing resolutions, it would be difficult for the Defense Department to recover, according to a leading independent budget analyst.
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 July 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Difficult Choices Lie Ahead for The Nation's Military Services Much discussion -- even hand wringing -- is taking place among the military, Congress and defense industry about where finite resources need to be placed.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Marc Lindemann	Civilian Contractors under Military Law The insertion of five words into Congress's fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act may now subject every civilian contractor operating in a combat zone to the discipline of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Drawdown: It's Been All Talk, Now It's Time to Walk U.S. military spending peaked in 2010 at $668 billion. It has dropped slightly since then, as the military started withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. But real austerity has yet to come.
National Defense May 2015 Stew Magnuson	Despite Wider Cuts, Special Operations Command Budget Outlook Remains Rosy On the surface, Special Operations Command is holding its own in a time of fiscal austerity.
National Defense November 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Nation Paying Steep Price for Rash Decisions The author examines several decisions such as the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the accompanying sequester.
National Defense August 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Forecast Calls for Stormy Business Climate Bad news keeps piling up for Pentagon contractors. In the past six months alone, the defense-contracting sector has been buffeted by draconian budget cuts and by proposed new rules.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military.
National Defense January 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Some Clarity on Budgets Emerges, But Industrial Base Outlook Remains Murky The Defense Department will be submitting the fiscal year 2013 budget that meets the first set of spending caps mandated by the August Budget Control Act.
National Defense January 2013 Valerie Insinna	Soldier Equipment Industry Struggles to Find Path Forward In order to address industry concerns, the Warrior Protection and Readiness Coalition was formed in 2009 to provide an organized voice for companies to engage with the Defense Department and Congress. The group has grown from 12 to 35 members since its inception.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Steven L. Schooner	Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future.
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.
Chemistry World March 11, 2013 Rebecca Trager	Retreating from meetings? US government scientists and technical experts could soon find themselves unable to travel to scientific meetings now that the much-anticipated automatic budgetary cuts, known as sequestration, became effective in the US on 1 March.
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 December 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget Guessing Game: How Low Will It Go? As it became apparent that political dysfunction had replaced deliberate planning in Washington, John Hamre, CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, called on the nation's policymakers to "define the bottom," and allow defense to resize accordingly.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007 John Keller	Taking the Pulse of Defense Spending As the war in Iraq has become a political sore spot, we can expect the Pentagon's leaders to hunker down to the status quo on military spending at least through the presidential election in November
National Defense September 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Sequester Sinks In, Extent of Fallout Unknown After a chaotic 2013, when the Pentagon had to slash $37 billion between March and September, Defense Department accountants ought to be better prepared for the next round. That will be a $52 billion hit for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	While More Research is Directed to Irregular Combat, War Spending Could Deter Advances in Military Weapons Irregular insurgents have not only have forced military commanders to rethink their strategies and tactics, but they also have set off a transformation in how defense researchers and scientists think about developing new technology.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John Keller	Military Research in Crisis The United States is in the midst of a military research, development, and preparedness crisis. Few people realize it; of those who do, most underestimate its dimensions.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	Despite Deal, More Budget Battles Loom Democrats and Republicans recently reached a bipartisan budget agreement that lifts sequestration caps on defense expenditures and avoids a government shutdown. But more fiscal fights lie ahead.
National Defense February 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	We Have a Budget Deal: What Comes Next? The passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 gave the Defense Department some relief from the sequester and some breathing room to adjust its spending beyond fiscal year 2015 to fit within the budget caps that Congress mandated in 2011.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger.
National Defense April 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level.
National Defense July 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequestration Looming: Defense Should Be Prepared for All Possible Scenarios If no further legislative action is taken before January, the Budget Control Act directs a reduction of $97 billion in discretionary federal spending for fiscal year 2013. The calculations work out to $42 billion from domestic programs and $55 billion from defense.