Todd Harrison is a Senior Fellow for Budget Studies at the Center of Strategic and Budgetary Assessments which has just released it’s analysis titled “The FY 2012 Defense Budget: What…
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What Defense Should Expect in FY 2012 Budget
February 11, 2011 • In the News • Original: Federal News Radio
2012 Defense Budget Marks a Shift to Conventional Weaponry
February 10, 2011 • In the News • Original: National Defense Magazine
The defense budget proposal that the Obama administration will send to Congress next week shows signs that the Pentagon is concerned about asserting its dominance in aerial and naval warfare,…
Pentagon Budget Request For Weapons Will Be $7 Billion Less Than Forecast
February 10, 2011 • In the News • Original: Bloomberg
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…
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…