The goal of Secretary Gates is to save $100 billion across the Department of Defense over five years. The Frank/Paul position is to cut $1 trillion across the DoD in ten years. Whatever the goal, the bill-payer de jour has become “overhead.” Yes, the ubiquitous and no-value added bad-guy overhead. But what is overhead? It there [...]
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Gates Stares Down Congress Over Air Force Funding
Posted: May 27, 2010 in Acquisition, Bureaucracy, DoD, DoD Budget, Government, OSD, Service Requests, StaffsTags: Acquisition
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’ [...]
Space Security Programs of Interest
Posted: March 24, 2010 in DoD Budget, Funding, Government, Space Funding, USAFRemember the golden rule of just about everything: if it ain’t funded, it ain’t. While policy is interesting, it is actually revealed in what gets–or doesn’t get–funded. This analysis is basically appears to largely be putting a number of the budgetary requirements documents (known as r-docs) into a table and providing commentary from the respective r-docs’ word [...]
This USA Today article from Thursday, 17 November 2009 caught my eye. I will be working up something to post or maybe it will lead to an article in an upcoming The Wright Stuff.
Hmmm. Check out these leak links (or at least the titles) and see if a theme emerges: Administration plans to punish leakers Among Obama Aides, Debate Intensifies on Troop Levels Shut Up, Gates Says Again Gates Condemns Leaks on U.S. Afghan Policy and Ft. Hood
