The impact of defense spending on job creation has become a contentious flashpoint in the debate over how to reduce the nation’s debt and still maintain a strong military. Defense…
Monthly Archives: December, 2011
Debate Over Defense Industry Jobs Escalates
December 14, 2011 • In the News • Original: National Defense Magazine
DOD Must Protect Industrial Base
December 14, 2011 • By Barry Watts and Todd Harrison • Analysis
As sequestration looks more likely by the day, the Defense Department faces the challenge of a new fiscal reality. After more than a decade of increasing budgets, the Pentagon has…
Time Marches on for the F-22
December 13, 2011 • In the News • Original: DoD Buzz
Tuesday is, quite literally, the end of the line for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor.After fourteen years in production, the final Raptor was set to roll off the company’s assembly line…
In U.S., Guard Battles Active Duty For Missions
December 12, 2011 • In the News • Original: Defense News
U.S. National Guard leaders are making their case to expand their force while the rest of the Defense Department is tightening their purse strings, causing a rift between active-duty and…
A Pentagon The Country Can Afford
December 11, 2011 • In the News • Original: New York Times
The failure of the “supercommittee” to reach a deficit agreement is supposed to trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts in federal spending over the next decade, nearly $500 billion of…