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National Defense
January 2015
Valerie Insinna
In Future Rotorcraft Acquisition, Services Working to Avoid Mistakes of Past Joint Programs The history of joint aircraft is littered with failures, and when programs do come to fruition, they oftentimes are marred by schedule delays and cost overruns. Case in point, critics say, is the uber-expensive F-35 joint strike fighter program. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2006
Grace Jean
U.K. Defense Procurement Entirely `Joint' While the U.S. military continues to debate how best to develop and procure joint-service weapons systems, in nations such as the United Kingdom, the entire defense acquisition system is based upon joint requirements. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Comrades in Arms With Penchant for Bitter Rivalries Retired four-star general and West Point professor Barry McCaffrey marvels at the miracle of joint-service combat power. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2005
Roxana Tiron
Deployment of Sea Bases Faces Technical, Budgetary Challenges The notion that ground forces can be launched, supported and sustained solely from ships at sea is still new to the Army and the Air Force, and the Defense Department has yet to figure out how to pay for this capability. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2009
Stew Magnuson
Skepticism, Inter-Service Rivalry Surrounds Joint Heavy Lift Aircraft Program Just when the Army and the Air Force appear to have settled disagreements over which service will control unmanned aerial vehicles and operate a new light cargo aircraft, along comes a new turf battle. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2004
Roxana Tiron
Joint-Service Needs Shape Marine Training Programs The Marine Corps is taking steps to align its training programs with joint requirements, officials said. Under the Defense Department's umbrella project called the Joint National Training Capability, the Marines are, for the first time, investing in technologies such as range instrumentation, to ensure they can participate in JNTC training events. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Aviation Wish-Lists Send Mixed Signals The Navy and Air Force want more planes from Boeing and Lockheed Martin, but doing so would decrease funds from the Joint Strike Fighter program. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Army Takes $35 Million Hit On Joint Common Missile As a result of funding cuts, the Army is unable to bring a second industry competitor into one of its largest missile programs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
Ben Ames
Engineers Learn to Blend Technologies in Joint Fighting Platforms To work effectively in joint warfighting, systems must be designed to cooperate from their inception, not patched together after the fact, says Navy Admiral Walter F. Doran, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Future Light Truck in Peril? The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is eventually supposed to replace Army and Marine Corps humvees. But recent comments by Marine Corps officials suggest that it may not be able to deliver on its promise of survivability and low weight. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2013
Valerie Insinna
Future Vertical Lift Takes Step Forward Army officials have been talking for almost a decade about new vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to replace its aging fleets of helicopters. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Raise Stirs Questions on `Fair Pay' A proposed 2.2 percent pay raise for military personnel (the same raise that the Bush administration recommended for civilian workers) raised eyebrows in Washington. Giving equal salary increments to military and civilians, critics argue, implies that the Pentagon is failing to reward the dangerous work that troops are doing in Iraq. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Pentagon's New Jet Fighter Epitomizes Budget Dilemmas Among the Pentagon's largest weapons procurements, and one that is sure to be closely watched is the Joint Strike Fighter. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2010
Sandra I. Erwin
Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Preventive Care Prescribed for Pentagon Big-Ticket Programs Acquisition officials at the Pentagon must decide which programs get to live and which ones get put out of their misery. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2012
Dan Parsons
Future Helicopter Technology Remains Up in the Air While jet fighters are in their fifth generation, the Army is still sputtering around in helicopter airframes that have changed little -- if at all -- in several decades. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Combat Drone Project Exposes Pitfalls of Joint-Service Programs When the Pentagon quashed a multibillion-dollar Air Force-Navy combat drone program earlier this year, experts contended this was proof that joint service projects are doomed from the get-go. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Pentagon Takes Another Shot At Enforcing Joint Thinking The latest attempt to bring about more "joint" thinking into the weapons development process is called JCIDS, short for joint capabilities integration and development system. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Washington Pulse Joint Warfare Has Its Drawbacks... Naval Aviators Told To Tighten Belt... Marines Shifting Non-Combat Jobs to Civilians... Military Training Programs Could See Cutbacks... mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2004
Brian Gorman
Lockheed's Weight Problem Lockheed Martin will delay takeoff on its Joint Strike Fighter program due to a nagging problem that may leave the defense contractor's investors jittery. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John Keller
DOD electronics spending may approach $60 billion in 2006 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are proposing a 7.8 percent spending increase for procurement and research in communications, electronics, and intelligence in fiscal year 2006, compared with spending for the same accounts this year. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2006
Claude V. Christianson
Joint Logistics: A Personal Perspective We have an opportunity to significantly advance our systems, processes and organizations to improve support for the joint force commander -- and we must seize it, says this Army Lt. Gen. and director for logistics on the Joint Staff. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2015
Valerie Insinna
Important Tests Loom for Navy and Marine Corps F-35 The Navy and Marine Corps variants of the joint strike fighter have an eventful year ahead, and program officials are saddled with a long list of work to do before major milestones in the summer. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo
Washington Pulse The question that keeps defense insiders buzzing around these days is how much of the nation's ballooning deficit realistically can be trimmed even as Pentagon's budgets continue to rise. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2013
Jeffrey Trumbore
Combat Experience of Bomb-Disposal Teams Should Be Codified The last 12 years of conflict have firmly established the roles of explosive ordnance disposal teams in supporting joint operations. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2004
Geoff S. Fein
Washington Pulse Lobbying Rules Strict Enough, Says Controller... Army Stresses `Joint Expeditionary Mindset'... Defense Spending Fuels Aerospace Growth mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2004
Sandra Erwin
Pentagon Rethinks Management Approach To Joint Tactical Radio The Defense Department's ambitious plans to replace every military radio with a single radio system are being dampened somewhat by the difficulties in coordination among the services and the sheer scope of the project. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2012
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.
Pentagon Resource Wars: Why They Can't Be Avoided If Congress reduces the services' procurement top lines as expected, they will probably circle their wagons to protect planned or traditional programs. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Rich Smith
Danger! Budget Cuts Ahead! Congress takes an ax to defense projects. Who stands to lose their heads? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2004
Harold Kennedy
Military Steps Up Training For Joint Close-Air Support The U.S. Joint Forces Command is increasing its efforts to ensure that aviators from all military services follow the same procedures when they provide joint close-air support to ground troops during combat. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2013
Dan Parsons
Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2004
Roxana Tiron
Computer Simulations Bolster Joint-Service Combat Training Connecting combat simulations in real time, so commanders and war planners from all services can train together, has proved to be a tough technical issue for the Defense Department. Last year, the Pentagon cancelled the multibillion-dollar Joint Simulation Systems program, as a result of cost overruns and poor performance. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2004
Brownlee & Schoomaker
Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2014
Sandra I. Erwin
In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2007
Stew Magnuson
Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2006
BAE Systems leadership sees growth in C4ISR funding BAE Systems North America's corporate leadership on the defense electronics industry discusses market outlook for next 5-10 years, best way to get products and designs in front of decision makers, and more. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2015
Stew Magnuson
F-35B Declared Combat Ready, but More Development Remains The last day of July was momentous for the Marine Corps as it declared that a squadron of F-35B joint strike fighters was ready for combat. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2010
Sandra I. Erwin
'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2004
Roxana Tiron
Pentagon Seeks Joint Doctrine, Training for Personnel Recovery Despite accounting for each and every missing soldier in the Iraq war the combat search and rescue community is stretched thin and grappling with gaps ranging from policy to training. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2006
Harold Kennedy
Military R&D could see decline in coming years Faced with a growing need to replenish war-ravaged equipment, Defense Department research and development spending is expected to level off and, then, gradually decrease through the balance of this decade. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh
Sequestration Threatens Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Acquisition With round two of sequestration looming over the Pentagon, major weapon programs could be on the chopping block. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2005
Brian Gorman
Lockheed's Embattled Fighter? The F-35's toughest enemies might be a key ally and the growing capability of unmanned systems. mark for My Articles similar articles