Subscribe to this Feed

CSBA In the News

CSBA: Army Should ‘Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do Without’

March 6, 2012 • In the News • Original: Inside Defense

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments today released a report on the future challenges in military vehicle modernization, recommending that the Army and Marine Corps find ways to make…

Smart Weapons Spread Undercuts Need For Army Combat Vehicle

March 6, 2012 • In the News • Original: AOL Defense

Since 9/11, the U.S. military has invested massively in protecting its troops, buying add-on armor kits for everything from the humble Humvee to the massive M1 tank. Now the spread…

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…