A prolonged shut down of spare parts production potentially endangers Army readiness. There's no way Sikorsky can maintain a high rate of production without the Teamsters on the line. |
Air Force leaders want to use the base- closure process as a way of reorganizing the reserves, especially the Air National Guard, so that it is better postured to support the regular Air Force in overseas missions, ... They feel they must take steps to make the Air National Guard more efficient and relevant to national needs, because budgets are not growing but missions' needs are. |
Although they may not have won the original competition in an entirely proper manner, they've got a pretty strong track record in developing these kinds of weapons. |
An invisible line has been crossed, and the decline in Rumsfeld?s tenure has now begun. He has gradually alienated each of his core constituencies, including the Congress, the media, the think tanks, the defense industry and now much of the officer corps. |
Any letter from Blair is likely to get the president's very close attention. |
As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force. |
Because Gore doesn't show great enthusiasm for missile defense, he's not going to initiate another big program that has to be fit into a tight program, ... That's probably a net positive for contractors. |
Bringing in somebody from management to install that rotor blade doesn't seem [likely]. |
Cutting that much money from the program clearly foreshadows either program termination or a long delay and major restructuring. |
Cutting-edge military technology today is very similar to cutting-edge commercial technology. It's not clear we can control any of these dual-use technologies to stop them from reaching enemy hands. |
Down the road, in a period when we're not in great danger, it might be hard to muster congressional majorities for defense budgets, ... The irony is that the military's effort to make [BRAC] decisions based on merit might be undercutting its long-term political base. |
During the Cold War, the Guard was an afterthought. There were sound reasons then why the Guard was less equipped than the active force. But in a post 9-11 world, that model no longer works. |
Existing levels of demand are driving the market toward one provider of launch services. |
Gordon England has believed since he was in industry that the acquisition system is broken. If given the opportunity, he'll push to change almost every aspect of the way the Pentagon does business because he believes billions of dollars are being wasted. |
Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft. |