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Budget Analysts: ‘Efficiencies’ Won’t Cut it, Could Backfire on Pentagon

June 21, 2012 • In the News • Original: National Defense Magazine

The Defense Department in its last two budget requests identified $238 billion in “efficiencies” that could help it spend less through 2017, but it is a mistake to call them…

Navy Places $42 Billion Bet on Carriers in China’s Sights

June 20, 2012 • In the News • Original: Bloomberg

The U.S. Navy is betting $42 billion on a new class of aircraft carriers, the world’s biggest and costliest warships ever, even as the Pentagon budget shrinks and China and…

Total Cost To Close Out Cancelled Army FCS Could Top $1 Billion

June 19, 2012 • In the News • Original: AOL Defense

Three years after then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cancelled the sprawling FCS program — the Army’s ambitious attempt to build a brigade’s worth of high-tech equipment, from light tanks to…

Putin Wants New Long-Range Bombers and a Gazillion Drones

June 14, 2012 • In the News • Original: Wired

Russia’s fleet of rusty strategic bombers has seen better days. For one, they haven’t seen significant upgrades in decades. For two, the fleet is less than half the size of…

Downed Drone Could Cost Navy Nearly $200 Million

June 13, 2012 • In the News • Original: U.S. News and World Report

The Navy drone aircraft that crashed in rural Maryland Monday likely will cost the military branch nearly $200 million at a time when the military’s budget is shrinking. The Navy…