Archive for the ‘Defense Funding’ Category

Gates Wants $100 Billion: Why Now?

Posted: August 3, 2010 in Cost Cutting, Cost Savings, Defense Funding, Defense Industry, DoD, Gates, OSD, Robert Gates
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The cost-savings and overhead reduction initiative Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is pushing has industry listening, and it only makes sense.  Does the Secretary see his legacy in play?  Perhaps. After a decade of record-high defense spending, a spending downturn is all but inevitable, barring an impending war with Iran or having to back up [...]

Stick A Fork In JFCOM?

Posted: July 23, 2010 in Defense Funding, JFCOM, Office of the Secretary of Defense, OSD, USJFCOM
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The Defense Business Board has recommended U.S. Joint Forces Command be done away with. Similarly, the DBB has also targeted elements of the Office of the Secretary of Defense itself, which has an approximate head count of 5000-plus and spends about $5.5 billion per year. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, [...]

Say No to NATO?

Posted: July 16, 2010 in Barney Frank, Defense Cuts, Defense Funding, DoD, Funding Cuts, NATO, OSD, Robert Gates, Ron Paul
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Let’s see: Gates wants to cut $100 billion from the defense budget over the FYDP.  Ron Paul and Barney Frank want to cut $1 trillion from the defense budget over 10 years. How can such things be done?  With great difficulty.  Such difficulty could include having the U.S. back away from its current funding for [...]