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 [...]
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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 Gates1
Time Keeps On Slippin’ Into The Future
Posted: June 14, 2010 in Gates, Iran, Nuclear Iran, Small Faces, Songs of Space and Nuclear War, Steve Miller, Steve Miller BandTags: Iran
See if you can connect my title with this Reuters article where Secretary of Defense Gates says Iran is one to three years away from a nuclear weapon and the trailing Small Faces video.
DoD Buzz: Obama Loses House F136 Vote
Posted: May 28, 2010 in Congress, Congress, Defense Acquisition, F-35, F135, F136, Gates, HouseOf course the loss wasn’t the President’s, it was Secretary Gates’. The F136 is the General Electric/Rolls Royce engine for the F-35; the F135 is the Pratt & Whitney engine. I don’t understand the heartburn: I thought we were supposed to have competition in our acquisition programs. The numbers on the F136 vote were almost identical [...]
