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National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer.  |
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.  |
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 September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess A decade of soaring Pentagon spending is coming to an end, and it is leaving behind considerable fiscal wreckage.  |
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Begins Broad Review Of Acquisition Workforce Skills The Pentagon has launched an extensive evaluation of military acquisition and contracting personnel in order to gauge their skills and competence.  |
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 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.  |
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Less Money, But Still Business As Usual As the dust begins to settle to reveal a leaner defense budget, Pentagon contractors are strategizing for the new business environment. They also will be parsing the latest batch of Pentagon policies designed to turn around failing weapon acquisition programs.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki |
When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense?  |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Can Congress Keep Up the Pressure on Acquisition Reform? A recent groundswell of legislative and regulatory actions to reform Defense Department weapon acquisition practices may not lead to meaningful change if the efforts are not kept up for years to come  |
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control.  |
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 |
Clipped Wings Defense contractors are trying to fend off liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, all looking for savings in the Pentagon's budget. Here are the programs already on the chopping block.  |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Rich Smith |
America, Defenseless? Some of the nation's biggest defense contractors have begun receiving "Dear John" letters from the Pentagon.  |
National Defense May 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
For High-Tech Firms, Allure of Defense Contracts Is Tarnished by Red Tape Even in today's struggling economy, the prospect of scoring a big defense contract is not enough for many companies to want to do business with the Defense Department.  |
National Defense June 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
For Defense Industry, Lure of Shiny Objects Rapidly Fading The erstwhile dependable moneymakers in the defense industry no longer look like safe bets. Big-ticket weapon systems are being delayed, terminated, investigated or mired in endless reviews.  |
National Defense November 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Than Money, Defense Needs Compelling Narrative Pentagon watchers already are warning that this is no time for business as usual, considering the domestic political climate and the fiscal crunch that could put defense spending in the cross hairs of a future deficit-reduction deal.  |
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Soon to Be Added to List of Pentagon's Unaffordable Luxuries: People in Uniform The all-volunteer military force has become so expensive that, compared to a decade ago, the Pentagon is paying twice as much for the same number of people.  |
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.  |
National Defense March 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Budget May Be Safe For Now, But Weapon Makers Should Worry If the current discourse over defense spending were a self-help bestseller, it would be titled, "How to Live in Denial About Being Broke."  |
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.  |
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 October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Fears of the Incredibly Shrinking Defense Budget May Be Overblown A defense industry apocalypse is not here yet: Everyone in Washington is always in favor of savings in the abstract but when they see the particulars, they tend to get cold feet.  |
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget.  |
National Defense April 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Technology At a Crossroads: Can the Pentagon Regain Its Innovation Mojo? The Defense Department may never become the technological juggernaut it once was, but with the groundbreaking innovation happening in the private sector, the challenge for the Pentagon is to tap emerging technology.  |
National Defense January 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell |
We Must Prepare for Defense Budget Crunch Substantial growth in defense spending after 9/11 gave the Pentagon's budget a reprieve. The day of financial reckoning, however, may fast be approaching if the current state of the nation's balance sheet offers any clues.  |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Fails To Capture Available Technologies In the race to secure the latest and greatest technologies from the private sector and university labs, the Pentagon often comes up short.  |
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Tries to Recapture Tech Glory Days After spending $50 billion over the past decade on failed weapons programs, the Pentagon is grasping for answers. Assorted procurement reforms have been tried, but they have delivered only marginal results.  |
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.  |
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.  |
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Why the Mightiest Military Can't Get Enough Trucks The political circus that has surrounded the procurement of mine-resistant armored vehicles for troops in Iraq comes as no surprise.  |
National Defense April 2007 Grace Jean |
Keeping Pace with Retiring Engineers With a large percentage of Defense Department scientists poised to retire during the next few years, and a diminishing pool of younger talent from which to fill their ranks, the nation's technological prowess may be on a downward trend.  |
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.  |
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Contractors Advised to Focus Less On Stock Prices, More on Customers Pentagon contractors will have to think differently about their business if they want to maintain or improve the financial performance they have enjoyed over the past decade, insiders say.  |
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 September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.  |
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.  |
National Defense December 2012 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers reply to stories about the value of MRAPs and Pentagon procurement reforms.  |
National Defense August 2010 Thomas A. Benes |
How Will the Defense Industry Adjust to New Fiscal Realities? Given the country's current fiscal and political environment, everyone, including defense industry leaders, is expecting changes in military spending and acquisition policy.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |