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National Defense
March 2008
Stew Magnuson
Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Message to Weapons Buyers: Make it Cheaper and Faster Robert Gates concluded that the only way to deploy hardware quickly enough to war zones was to circumvent the traditional buyers and create ad-hoc "rapid procurement" teams. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Technologies Rushed to War Face an Uncertain Future In the scramble to deliver equipment requested by commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army often bypassed its own procurement bureaucracy. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
March 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Enjoy Your Money While You Can ... More than any other service, the Army has relied on Iraq-war funding to refurbish vehicles and acquire new hardware. However, if history is any guide, money only lasts as long as there are troops under fire. mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com Is Afghanistan Winnable? The Army general chosen to take over as top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan told senators Tuesday he believes the war can be won if a proper counterinsurgency campaign is undertaken. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Defense Stifles Innovation Despite Urgent War Needs The Defense Department has been a leading developer of cutting-edge technology. But at the same time, it has created self-defeating mechanisms that quash innovation and fail to capitalize on available opportunities. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2010
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.
Prescription for Ailing Army Acquisition Army Secretary John McHugh last month ordered a comprehensive review of Army weapons acquisition practices, management and oversight. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2015
Sandra I. Erwin
Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin
Equipment Requests Raise Procurement Integrity Questions The increasingly frequent practice of tagging combat equipment requests as "urgent" needs has resulted in widespread abuse of the system. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Changes to Military Strategy, In Time for the Next War Iraq is far from over, but the Defense Department is already rewriting military doctrine so that forces are adequately trained and ready for another Iraq-like conflict years or decades from now. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2006
Sandra Erwin
Commanders' Wish List Makes for Wishful Thinking Since the early days of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, much of the Pentagon's equipment buys have fulfilled critical battlefield needs. But the Pentagon has failed to deliver in some areas, especially in those involving information technologies. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
NATO Commander: Send More Spy Planes to Afghanistan The U.S. military has deployed thousands of unmanned surveillance aircraft to war zones, but not nearly enough went to Afghanistan, says the head of U.S. European Command. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2011
Sandra I. Erwin
Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2015
Sandra Erwin
Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2007
Grace Jean
Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2009
Sandra i. Erwin
New Business Model Needed To Replace the Status Quo In the weapons-acquisition world, the "normal" ways of doing business are frowned upon around the E-ring these days. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2006
Erwin & Magnuson
Army Launches `Missile Roadmap' Army missile buyers are conducting a "market survey" to uncover potential long-term problems in the industry's ability to deliver new technologies. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2006
Erwin et al.
U.S. Troops Vulnerable to Enemy Drones U.S. forces deployed in the Middle East need improved defenses against unmanned drones, says the Army's top general in charge of air-defense systems. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
In the Latest Pentagon Strategy, Uncertainty Rules An elaborate plan recently unveiled by the Defense Department aims to prepare the military services to cope with a wide range of threats to national security during the next 20 years. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2004
Roxana Tiron
Allies Essential in Personnel Recovery While Pentagon officials acknowledge that it is critical to work with coalition partners and allies to rescue and recover isolated troops in combat, the facts indicate feeble movement in that direction. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2013
Sandra I. Erwin
Defense, Intelligence Agencies Struggle to Unify Data Networks It is an article of faith among military strategists that information wins wars. This dogma, however, often collides with the reality that military information systems resemble the Tower of Babel. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2006
Sandra I. Erwin
Army Grappling With Antiquated Buying Rules Army leaders continue to squabble over how best to satisfy soldiers' immediate equipment needs and simultaneously develop futuristic weapons systems for the decades ahead. 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
National Defense
March 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
War Lessons Should Not Be Politicized, Says CENTCOM Chief The organization in charge of gathering and reporting those lessons, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, deployed teams and embedded them with units in the field to get a first-hand look at the operations. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
U.S. Wants More Help From Allies? Not Really The hope is that President Obama's extraordinary popularity in Europe will translate into "enhanced contributions to the efforts in Afghanistan." mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin
Washington Pulse Crusader Rising From the Ashes... `Joint' Weapons Are OK, But Do They Create Jobs?... Losing a Big Contract Not Necessarily a Bad Thing... Allies `Welcome' at U.S. Command Centers... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2009
Sandra I. Erwin
Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2014
Sandra Erwin
Pentagon Mulls Strategy for Next Arms Race The idea that the United States might see its overwhelming dominance in weapons technology erode is hard to comprehend, however, given the enormous spending gap between the Pentagon and everyone else. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2015
Sandra I. Erwin
U.S. Central Command Leads Push to Connect Allies in Common Network U.S. military leaders in regional commands have coped with limited interoperability with allies by setting up one-off communications systems. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Commanders Grapple With Changing Missions, Smaller Fleet As the size of the fleet continues to shrink, decision makers at the Pentagon are grappling with how to reshape a Navy that is fighting unconventional wars largely with Cold War weapon systems. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2011
Sandra I. Erwin
Defense Energy: Small, Incremental Steps Do Better Than Sweeping Reforms The Air Force saved $700 million in its five-year fuel budget just by redirecting flights through shorter routes and choreographing more efficient itineraries for cargo deliveries. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson
Strategic Command Selling Itself to Field Commanders The officers at U.S. Strategic Command are trying to sell their ability to support commanding officers. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2005
Sandra I. Erwin
Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness? mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2009
Grace V. Jean
U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Culturally Attuned Warriors Candidates who hope to join the Army's Special Forces, whether recruited from the services or other programs, will face higher standards in training. mark for My Articles similar articles