The Defense Department is pressuring Congress for a spending increase in 2011. Defense leaders say a continuing resolution the House passed in mid-February doesn’t give them enough money. And they…
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Analysis: Chances of DoD appropriations bill passing?
March 2, 2011 • In the News • Original: Federal News Radio
As Gates Plans Exit, Work Piles Up For His Successor
February 28, 2011 • In the News • Original: Politico
“With a lot of these efficiency initiatives, these are projected savings, this is what they’re estimating they’re going to save in the future. What quite often happens is that the…
Military no Longer Protected from Budget Knife
February 28, 2011 • In the News • Original: National Journal
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow in defense budget studies at CSBA, called the proposed $5 per month bump in premiums for
Pentagon Expands Role Of Elite Commando Units In Hunting Terrorist Weapons
February 23, 2011 • In the News • Original: Bloomberg
Robert Martinage, then an analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, wrote in a 2008 report that only “select units” of the Pentagon Joint Special Operations…
The Cost of a Soldier Deployed in Afghanistan
February 22, 2011 • In the News • Original: Marketplace Radio
This number would be right for the war in Iraq, according to numbers from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. $685,000, that’s by the way, over 10 times…