Only a day after our post on Romania’s fledgling missile-defense system, the Pentagon has this to say about it, in its daily list of contract announcements:
Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc., Arlington, Va., was awarded a …
“If the cuts continue, the department will have to make sharp cuts with far-reaching consequences, including limiting combat power, reducing readiness and undermining the national security interests of the United States.”
— Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, warning of the impact of continuing the 10% annual reductions in Pentagon spending mandated by sequestration without a budget deal between the Congress and the White House.
Landing The Big One…
Well it happened – twice, to be precise.
The Navy’s unmanned X-47B jet-powered drone made repeated, safe landings aboard the carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia Wednesday (irony alert: George H.W. Bush …
“We are not much better off today than we were 10 years ago with regard to planning, executing, overseeing stabilization and reconstruction operations.”
— Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, testifying before a House panel Tuesday.
Contracting for Civilian Warplanes
Thumbing through Pentagon contracting documents can be mind-numbingly boring, although there’s far less chance of paper cuts these days since most documentation moved online. But the boilerplate requirements, specifications and …
A TBI Yardstick
Waging and preventing war are the foundations of national security. Innovative companies across the country are working on products for tomorrow’s fight. Here is Battleland’s continuing look at what looms on technology’s …
Uncommanded Influence
You know it’s not a good letter in Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s inbox when the writer addresses him as “Charles.”
The latest such missive, written two days ago by John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for …
Lunch!
Supplies airdropped from a C-17 float to U.S. troops stationed near Ghorak, Kandahar province, June 27.
Obama’s Pyramid Scheme: Just What Is “Democracy,” Anyway?
Barack Obama paid his first and still only visit to Egypt in the late spring of 2009. As a new President looking to turn the page on the George W. Bush era, he traveled to Cairo to deliver an address meant to repair America’s …
What’s Your Service’s Waste Measurement?
The Pentagon’s top weapons-buyer, Frank Kendall, has issued a study trying to measure the way the U.S. military buys its hardware, smartly and otherwise.
It was the above chart that caught our eye. It details, by service, …
Japan Ready to Declare: We’ll Go First
TOKYO – Japan has no intention to go it alone in defending its territory or national interests from growing threats in the Asia-Pacific region. But an annual defense review released Tuesday and other recent developments signal …
Dracula’s Missile Defense
“Over the last 10 years, when resources have been relatively unconstrained, there's been a lot of things grow up out there, sometimes at individual posts, camps and stations, and sometimes across the institution, that have to be either dialed back, potentially, or eliminated, potentially.”
— Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking Monday at the annual Military Child Education Coalition National Training Seminar outside Washington, D.C.