Still, the weapons request is $7 billion less than the $120.3 billion in base budget procurement the Pentagon had forecast last year for fiscal 2012. The reductions were part of…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Pentagon Budget Request For Weapons Will Be $7 Billion Less Than Forecast
February 10, 2011 • In the News • Original: Bloomberg
Military Spending Will Thwart Earmark Ban, Experts Predict
February 8, 2011 • In the News • Original: The Hill
The F-35 alternative engine raises a question that experts say will be central to the earmarks ban battle: What is an earmark? “It is hard to specifically define what is…
Drone Will Call Aircraft Carriers Home
February 8, 2011 • In the News • Original: Wall Street Journal
A 2008 report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank that studies military technology, said that long-range pilotless aircraft had potential to transform carriers “from…
USMC Plans To Cut 15,000 After Iraq, Afghan Wars
February 7, 2011 • In the News • Original: Inside Defense
Dakota Wood, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the Marine Corps likely hopes to preserve a balanced force while bringing down its total size and…
Fearing a Wage Freeze
February 7, 2011 • In the News • Source: Army Times
Politics aside, however, a military pay freeze likely would not harm the Defense Department, said Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, who has analyzed various proposals…