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National Defense December 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable.  |
National Defense February 2014 Dan Parsons |
Government Scientists Fight for Funding Government scientists want to preserve the surge of cash military laboratories have used to help troops fight the wars of the last decade in hopes that ongoing experimentation will help the military prepare for conflicts to come.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012 |
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.  |
National Defense March 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Budget and Quadrennial Review Sidestep Critical Issues The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and the fiscal year 2011 defense budget proposal seek to achieve some worthy goals, but acknowledgement of disconnects between program priorities and existing spending plans is missing.  |
National Defense September 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Industry Must Sharpen Its Manufacturing Edge As the defense budget continues to tighten, the cost of manufacturing must be cut. Even relatively small investments in advanced manufacturing processes can save millions of dollars in weapon costs.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette |
What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.  |
National Defense September 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Next Pentagon Procurement 'Bow Wave' Will Be a Tsunami With the Defense Department now facing a precipitous drop in new equipment purchases over the next two years, the green-eyeshade crowd already is predicting a huge bow wave for 2018 and beyond, which could be the biggest one yet.  |
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Weapon Cost Overruns: From Bad to Worse A report by the Government Accountability Office last year stirred up a scandal of sorts as it meticulously documented that the Pentagon's 95 largest weapon systems were nearly $300 billion over budget.  |
National Defense March 2012 Dan Ward |
Military Innovation in the Age of Austerity: Why I Love Budget Cuts What will the projected military budget cuts do to the defense technology environment? Despite the widespread chorus of concern from industry and government alike, the cuts may actually do everyone -- particularly American war fighters -- a lot of good.  |
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 May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs  |
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Industrial Policy Debate: Should The Pentagon Pick Winners and Losers? Industry executives and trade associations have called for the Defense Department to take preemptive action to protect key sectors that are considered of strategic importance to national security.  |
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.  |
National Defense January 2010 |
Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Defense acquisition woes... Recruiting talent... Technology challenges... Air Force tanker... Renewable energy...  |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp |
Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).  |
National Defense August 2013 Lou Kratz |
As Spending Comes Down, Strategic Choices Needed After more than a decade of conflict, the United States has begun to draw down defense spending, with sequestration cuts expected to continue over the coming years.  |
National Defense October 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr. |
Pentagon Feeling the Pressure on Budget There is good and bad news in the defense spending legislation that President Bush signed in August.  |
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Companies See Bright Spots in Bleak Market There are still companies that have the stomach to invest in defense. Some actually view these tough times as an opportunity to win new business.  |
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 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 2015 Jon Harper |
NATO Funding Shortfalls Likely to Continue The latest Russian military intervention in Ukraine is forcing NATO to refocus its attention on its eastern flank. But concerns about a resurgent Russia will not prompt a large boost in alliance procurement.  |
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 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.  |
National Defense June 2007 Holmes & Seraphin |
Munitions Industrial Base: Trouble on the Horizon The concerns are not merely theoretical or speculative. They are based on historical facts.  |
National Defense November 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Fresh Thinking Needed in Quadrennial Defense Review In order to maintain a robust national defense enterprise, we must make hard choices about systems, people, force structure, infrastructure, investments, operations and management.  |
National Defense December 2015 Lloyd McCoy Jr. |
Defense Department Plays Key Role in Industrial Base Oversight The Defense Department and other federal agencies have been directed to identify and protect critical infrastructure sectors specific to their mission.  |
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 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 September 2004 David M. Walker |
Defense Transformation: A Battle the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose A crunch is coming. Although national defense and homeland security have received generous funding in recent years, this cannot continue indefinitely. Defense budgets of the future almost certainly will be tighter. It is time to recognize that we are in a fiscal hole, and stop digging.  |
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 September 2014 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Problems in DoD Acquisitions... Budget Fights... Nonlethal Weapons...  |
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems.  |
National Defense May 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry Uncertainty about future conflicts and the capabilities of potential enemies raise complex questions about what weaponry the U.S. military will need to counter a wide spectrum of threats.  |
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 June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Curtail Procurement of Precision-Guided Weapons The Army needs to reevaluate its precision-guided munitions programs, and identify which of its current weapons should continue to receive funding. Contractors worried about declining sales should try to find ways to consolidate production lines across all military services.  |
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al. |
Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.  |
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.  |
InternetNews November 15, 2007 |
U.S. Panel Urges Vigilance on China Spying, Cyber War Chinese espionage poses "single greatest risk" to American technology, a congressional report says.  |
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 William Y. Bishop |
Pentagon Acquisition Rules Exacerbate Problems The defense industry has launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington saying that future reductions in acquisition funding will put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.  |
National Defense May 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
What the Latest U.S. Budget Crisis Means for the Future of Defense Even if defense survives significant 2012 budget cuts, the probability is that 2013 or 2014 will be very tough years for military budgets.  |
National Defense March 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
When Will the Military Services Come To Grips With a New Era of Austerity? Even with a smaller funding pie, the U.S. military services should be able to weather the coming budget reductions. But the services are anxious and insecure institutions. They want more, and they insist that their equipment is aging and in need of modernization.  |
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets |
Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.  |
National Defense February 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Industrial Base Issues on the Agenda for 2007 Six issues that affect everyone involved in the business of providing goods and services to the nation's military, homeland security agencies and first responders.  |
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 July 2013 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers point out that technical skills are needed in the Department of Defense and also request that the defense acquisition process be simplified.  |
National Defense February 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Administration's Defense Strategy Precedes Budget: A Good First Step It has been just over a year since former Defense Secretary Robert Gates started a $100 billion efficiencies campaign wherein the savings were redistributed within the Pentagon's budget top line.  |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Nader Elhefnawy |
National Mobilization: An Option in Future Conflicts? Despite a great deal of hand-wringing on the part of social critics, the really difficult question was not asked: Would a World War II-scale mobilization even have been possible after 9/11 if it had been deemed an appropriate response?  |
National Defense February 2012 Harvey M. Sapolsky |
Defense Industrial Policy Myths Debunked Looming budget austerity raises concerns about the future health of the U.S. defense industrial base. But the coming crisis also offers an opportunity to prune the deadwood.  |