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The Defense Industrial Base: A National Security Imperative

October 24, 2011 • By Barry Watts

Chairman Shuster, Mr. Larsen, and Members of the Defense Business Panel, thank you for inviting me to testify at today’s hearing on the imperative to preserve essential elements of U.S….

Changing the Business of Defense

October 18, 2011 • By Todd Harrison and Evan B. Montgomery

DoD faces a fundamental choice in how it prepares to trim its budget under such a high degree of uncertainty. It can change the way it does business or change the business it does. Under the deepest cuts proposed, it may well need to do both.

Sustaining Critical Sectors of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base

September 20, 2011 • By Barry Watts and Todd Harrison

This monograph focuses on two main questions concerning what is most accurately described as the “military-industrial-Congressional” complex

The Future of National Defense and the U.S. Military Ten Years After 9/11

September 13, 2011 • By Jim Thomas

Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. On September 11, 2001, I was working in the Pentagon as part…

Defense Funding in the Budget Control Act of 2011

August 4, 2011 • By Todd Harrison

While the Budget Control Act of 2011 resolves the debt ceiling issue through 2012, it leaves many budget issues unresolved. The future of the defense budget remains uncertain