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Don’t Rush to Buy New Vehicles, Army and Marine Corps Are Warned

March 6, 2012 • In the News • Original: National Defense Magazine

The traditional approach to updating U.S. military hardware — spending years and billions of dollars on next-generation designs — is no longer working for the Army and the Marine Corps…

Could Once-Promising ‘Structural Blast Chimney’ Be Resurrected For JLTV?

March 5, 2012 • In the News • Original: Inside the Army

While the shadow of uncertainty has been cast on a promising vehicle survivability technology known as the “structural blast chimney” due to the cancellation of the Army’s competitive humvee recapitalization…

Why Major Acquisition Programs Fail

March 1, 2012 • In the News • Original: Aviation Week

Major acquisition programs fail more often than not/…/ The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has estimated that over the last decade, aborted programs have cost $46 billion, but that…

Navy Lacks Targets To Test U.S. Defenses Against China Missile

February 28, 2012 • In the News • Original: Bloomberg Government

The U.S. Navy lacks a target needed to check its defenses against a new Chinese ballistic missile designed to attack multibillion-dollar aircraft carriers, according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester….

Cost of Troops in Afghanistan is Rising. Salary a Tiny Fraction of Total Cost

February 28, 2012 • In the News • Original: CNN

Keeping one American service member in Afghanistan costs between $850,000 and $1.4 million a year, depending on who you ask. But one matter is clear, that cost is going up….