Archive for the ‘OSD’ 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 [...]

Cutting Capability To Create Strength?

Posted: June 11, 2010 in Army, Army, Budget Cuts, Funding, John McHugh, OSD, Secretary of the Army
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The guidance for the services to come up with $2 billion in cuts for the FY2012 budget has been met with hosannas from the Secretary of the Army John McHugh. The alleged carrot in this is that the services are supposed to be allowed to keep some of the savings.  I’m not sure how that [...]

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’ [...]