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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 [...]

Can DoD Cut Costs of Future Arms?

Posted: July 28, 2010 in Acquisition, Brett Lambert, Cost Cutting, DoD, Future Force
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Like a zombie, cost cutting in DoD is one of those back-to-the-future efforts that never really dies. That’s not to say cost cutting is a poor goal; far from it.  In fact, bravo…bravo as a goal. The challenge is cost-cutting is simply a goal and lacks a strategy to achieve the goal. The traditional government [...]

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 [...]

Gates Stares Down Congress Over Air Force Funding

Posted: May 27, 2010 in Acquisition, Bureaucracy, DoD, DoD Budget, Government, OSD, Service Requests, Staffs
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It ain’t just the Air Force but it is about funding. The pressure is no doubt on the Secretary to come up with something analagous to the peace dividend of the 1990s.  I’m sure he’s thinking about his legacy, but while budgets start with the services, OSD is a gigantic pass-through. If OSD didn’t ‘fix’ [...]