Rapid Fire 2011-07-08: Indonesian Aerospace
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces that Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn will leave the post later this year. A replacement is expected to be found by the autumn. Two House Foreign...
View ArticleRapid Fire 2011-07-09: CIRCM Program
The House of Representatives passes a $649 billion defense spending bill for FY2012, trimming $9 billion from President Obama’s budget request. Department of Defense officials tell a Pew Research...
View ArticleRapid Fire 2011-07-11: US Suspends Military Aid to Pakistan
White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley tells ABC’s This Week that the United States will suspend $800 million in aid to Pakistan’s military. The suspension comes after Pakistan expels US military...
View ArticleRapid Fire 2011-07-12: DOD IG on Contracting
The Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DoD) releases Contract Management of Joint Logistics Integrator Services in Support of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles Needs Improvement...
View ArticleRapid Fire 2011-07-25: Digital Army Program (DAP)
Airborne Mobility Command point to the increase in airdrops over Afghanistan over the past five years as evidence of the growing importance of Joint Precision Aerial Delivery Systems (JPADS) to...
View ArticleRapid Fire 2011-08-30: Top Aerospace Companies
Two members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting say that $30 billion-worth of expenditure on contracts and grants in Afghanistan and Iraq have been wasted through poor planning, shifting...
View ArticleRapid Fire 2011-12-07: FYDP Not Sequestered
It’s not just the pending US FY13 President Budget that won’t reflect sequestration, the 5-year Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) projection won’t either, based on an Office of Management and Budget...
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Floatin’ Smokey: The USA’s SBX Radar
SBX-1, Pearl Harbor(click to view full) As rogue state proliferation by the likes of North Korea made missile defense a growing priority for nations including the USA, Japan, and Israel, the USA began...
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Drug Deals: DLA Awards up to $807M for Pharmaceuticals Delivery
Military meds are big business. In March 2010 the US DLA’s Defense Supply Center Philadelphia awarded a pair of 5-year contracts worth up to $807.1 million to Cardinal Health in Dublin, OH, for drug...
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The USA’s Future Intermediate Research Fleet [AGOR]
Latest updates: R/V Neil Armstrong. RV Kilo Moana(click to view full) The USA’s University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System conducts research throughout the world’s oceans, and their fleet has...
View ArticleRapid Fire May 30, 2013: Group Think Tank Attack
4 major defense-focused American think tanks joined forces to weight budget trade-offs for the Pentagon over the next 10 years. They have a clear consensus [PDF] to primarily target personnel, and...
View ArticleRapid Fire July 16, 2013: Russia Tests Its Siberian Readiness, Neighbors’ Nerves
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a massive surprise exercise last Friday in the Eastern Military District, which he is now overseeing himself. With 160,000 men, 5,000 tanks and armored...
View ArticleRapid Fire July 18, 2013: Afghans Get Into Bridge Trolling Business
The Afghan government, taking example from Pakistan, is trying to submit the US logistics flow out of their country to outrageous customs fees. In its latest report [PDF], the Pentagon’s Defense...
View ArticleRapid Fire Sept. 13, 2013: The Coming US Submarine Shortfall
During a hearing at the US House Armed Services Committee, Rear Admiral Richard Breckenridge outlined significant shortfalls in the future submarine fleet – which today counts 55 boats – but while the...
View ArticleUS Army Acknowledges Program Tradeoffs Are On The Way
US Budgeteers to Face Tough Calls US Army Secretary John McHugh told attendees of the AUSA annual meeting that GCV and networking count among the service’s priorities, but given the current budget...
View ArticleUS Navy Gets Funding Support for Biofuels from USDA
Pentagon Contract Flow The Pentagon announced 198 contracts for a total of $23B in November, showing a return to norm after October’s shutdown. Bloomberg. The US Navy is going to ramp up its biofuel...
View ArticleChina Strives to Join the Big League
China has been repeatedly calling for the establishment of a “new type of major country relationship” with the US. The CSIS think tank explains [PDF] what that’s supposed to mean, and the risks such...
View ArticleCongressionally-Constrainted Pentagon Castigates Contractors
The Pentagon is increasingly enforcing an Earned Value Management clause in defense acquisition legislation (DFARS 252.242-7005) to withhold payments from prime contractors whose internal business...
View ArticleMaritime China Busy Making Close and Faraway ‘Friends’
A plan for a Chinese military port got planning approval in Hong Kong, despite tensions between residents and the mainland that translate into protests denouncing Chinese “locusts.” Australia was...
View ArticleMore Tit for Tate Between Russia, Ukraine, West
Reuters: Russia targets space station project in retaliation for U.S. sanctions. The Kremlin has made hay of Ukraine’s reliance on Russia’s defense industry, but that dependence is reciprocal. The US...
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