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National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts.
National Defense March 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Balancing Defense Needs Against Fiscal Realities The 2005 defense budget request that the administration sent to Capitol Hill last month is an impressive attempt to balance the demands of a nation at war against the sobering fiscal picture now confronting us.
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s.
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Cash-Flow Troubles Continue Despite Hefty Emergency Allowance For the Army, the upcoming budget season is shaping up to be a competition between "boots" and "hardware," even though officials have argued that they should not have to trade one for the other.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 John Keller	Defense industry upbeat; military spending to stay healthy over next decade Predictions released last month say that U.S. defense spending will grow to an annual $609.4 billion over the next decade.
National Defense July 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Difficult Choices Lie Ahead for The Nation's Military Services Much discussion -- even hand wringing -- is taking place among the military, Congress and defense industry about where finite resources need to be placed.
National Defense October 2006 Sandra Erwin	Roadside Bombs: An `Arms Race' With No End in Sight Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Douglas Stone conveys to defense contractors and government scientists the frustration that military commanders experience in the war zone, where inescapably, almost on a daily basis, troops are killed and maimed by hidden explosives.
National Defense October 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Pentagon Feeling the Pressure on Budget There is good and bad news in the defense spending legislation that President Bush signed in August.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Election Aftermath: What's in it for the Military? One potential target of the new Congress is the large supplemental spending budgets that fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things.
National Defense February 2014 Dan Parsons	Government Scientists Fight for Funding Government scientists want to preserve the surge of cash military laboratories have used to help troops fight the wars of the last decade in hopes that ongoing experimentation will help the military prepare for conflicts to come.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007 John Keller	Taking the Pulse of Defense Spending As the war in Iraq has become a political sore spot, we can expect the Pentagon's leaders to hunker down to the status quo on military spending at least through the presidential election in November
National Defense November 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell	Plenty of Resources, But Even Greater Demand The politics of military spending have reached fever pitch as Congress attempts to pass the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 budget and weighs massive war spending requests.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John Keller	Military Research in Crisis The United States is in the midst of a military research, development, and preparedness crisis. Few people realize it; of those who do, most underestimate its dimensions.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services.
Reason May 2008 Veronique de Rugy	The Trillion-Dollar War The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I -- but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Obliged to Add Troops, Army Agonizes Over Costs Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody asserts the issue that should have been more thoroughly debated by political leaders, but has largely been ignored, is not the draft, but rather how the nation will pay for the additional troops the Army requires to keep fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Rivalries Rekindled Over `Roles and Missions' The team spirit seen on the front lines typically does not translate into affable negotiations at the Pentagon's budget table, where the services wage bureaucratic wars for their share of a $420 billion defense pie.
National Defense August 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Urban Fighting in Iraq Spurs New Thinking in Strike Aviation Unconventional tactics have become standard procedure for U.S. naval aviators who are supporting ground troops in the fight against insurgents in Iraq.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry.
National Defense July 2006	It Does Not Pay to Be `Too Relevant' Skyrocketing War Costs Are Putting Pressure on the Pentagon... Politicians Should Help the Troops... Military Must Learn to Live With Contractors... Navy Making Tough Calls in Aviation...
National Defense May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	In Today's Wars, Air Strikes Under Fire The Air Force and the Army feud over who gets to be in charge of the "big guns" on the battlefield. The rivalry has become irrelevant in current wars, where one doesn't win by killing, but by gaining the trust of the population.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Power: Where's the Love? Why is air power being blamed for the lack of progress in Afghanistan?
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.
National Defense November 2004	Washington Pulse Civilians Also Need `Joint' Training... Navy Will Push to Keep 12 Aircraft Carriers... What's on the Air Force Chief's Mind... Army Ponders Spending Priorities... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al.	10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.
National Defense January 2007 Stew Magnuson	Aging Aircraft, War Costs Weigh Heavily in Future Budgets The Senate Appropriations Committee staffer acknowledged the conundrum the Air Force is facing.
National Defense November 2006 Grace Jean	Research Aims for `Game-Changing' Technologies Air Force research is focused on a multitude of high technology quests, including a drive to perfect a more economical alternative to fossil fuels.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Michael R. Melillo	Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for a Gallon of Gas? Two Defense Science Board studies have criticized the Pentagon for not having reliable methods of measuring what is known as the "fully burdened" cost of fuel (FBCF).
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises.
National Defense March 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	The Budget Realities We Must Face As Congress deliberates at length on the fine points of the Bush administration's fiscal year 2006 budget request for the Defense Department, it may be an appropriate time to take a broader look at the potential implications of the Pentagon's spending plan.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Roadmap Calls For No-Nonsense Research Far from being disconnected from the practical concerns of deployed forces, Navy scientists are making it their business to be attuned to the demands of sailors and Marines.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	DOD Electronics Spending to Drop Along with Overall Decline in Procurement Leaders of the DOD propose spending slightly more than $28.1 billion in fiscal year 2008 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies, which would represent a 4% decrease from current-year levels.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.
National Defense March 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Budget Sets Stage for Tough Choices Ahead As Congress continues to dissect the details of the Bush administration's proposed defense budget for fiscal year 2008, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the nation's military faces a worrisome financial future.
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Changes to Military Strategy, In Time for the Next War Iraq is far from over, but the Defense Department is already rewriting military doctrine so that forces are adequately trained and ready for another Iraq-like conflict years or decades from now.
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean	Investments Should Target Urban Warfare Despite all the leaps and bounds the nation has made in defense technologies to claim military dominance, there is still one domain that has proven elusive: the urban battlefield.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	In the Latest Pentagon Strategy, Uncertainty Rules An elaborate plan recently unveiled by the Defense Department aims to prepare the military services to cope with a wide range of threats to national security during the next 20 years.
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Tony Capaccio	A Peace Dividend from Troop Withdrawals Obama's budget for Iraq and Afghanistan is said to tumble 26 percent - the lowest amount since 2005.
National Defense March 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Message to Weapons Buyers: Make it Cheaper and Faster Robert Gates concluded that the only way to deploy hardware quickly enough to war zones was to circumvent the traditional buyers and create ad-hoc "rapid procurement" teams.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Break its Addiction to Supplementals? This Gotterdammerung -- also known as the end of supplemental budgets -- is being met with a mix of anxiety and resignation.