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Pentagon Officials Press Congress For More Time On Budget Cuts

August 2, 2013 • In the News • Original: Reuters

A day after the Pentagon outlined the stark choices it confronts due to looming budget cuts in coming years, top defense officials pressed Congress to give them the time and…

Hagel Outlines Bleak Future for Pentagon

July 31, 2013 • In the News • Original: USA Today

Automatic budgets cuts will force the Pentagon to slash its ranks or trash its plans to buy new weapons, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Wednesday. The budget cuts known as…

Pentagon Lays Out Ways to Slash Spending

July 31, 2013 • In the News • Original: Wall Street Journal

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday laid out options for implementing the Pentagon’s share of broad spending cuts known as the sequester, including shrinking the Army from 490,000 under current…

Tactical Military Satellite Comms Need Hardening, Says CSBA Study

July 25, 2013 • In the News • Original: Fierce Government

Increasing military use of satellite communication for tactical operations means the Defense Department should create a new tier of protected space systems, says the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’s…

Study: New MILSAT Strategies Needed

July 25, 2013 • In the News • Original: UPI

A new study on military satellite communications says new strategies are needed to enhance capabilities in a time of budget restraints. Increasing protected MILSATCOM capacity in the face of anti-access/area-denial…