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National Defense August 2010 Stew Magnuson	New Truck To Show The Way for Acquisition Reforms The Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act passed in 2009 requires that prototypes be produced for major weapons acquisition programs prior to Milestone B, which is the point where independent review boards must give a thumbs up or thumbs down
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	To Cut Waste in Defense, Stop Piling on Reforms If the Pentagon is serious about change across all programs, it can't afford another "acquisition reform charade," and must address the root cause of current problems.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Reform Act: The Backlash Has Begun It's only been seven months since President Obama signed the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Predictably, a chorus of disapproval already is being heard.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
National Defense July 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Blues: After a Decade Of Largesse, Not Much to Show for It After a decade of lavish spending, the Pentagon is now left with an aging fleet of weapon systems, an overstrained force, out-of-control personnel and healthcare costs, and no idea of how to prepare for tomorrow's wars.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Weapon Cost Overruns: From Bad to Worse A report by the Government Accountability Office last year stirred up a scandal of sorts as it meticulously documented that the Pentagon's 95 largest weapon systems were nearly $300 billion over budget.
National Defense December 2010 Tom Captain	Defense Affordability: Can We Buy Only What We Need? Military acquisition budgets globally are flattening out and declining. Large scale multi-billion dollar programs are running over budget and being delayed.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Can Congress Keep Up the Pressure on Acquisition Reform? A recent groundswell of legislative and regulatory actions to reform Defense Department weapon acquisition practices may not lead to meaningful change if the efforts are not kept up for years to come
National Defense July 2013	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers point out that technical skills are needed in the Department of Defense and also request that the defense acquisition process be simplified.
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 May 2010 Harvey M. Sapolsky	The False Promises of Acquisition Reform Despite meetings, laws, and hearings on acquisition reform, cost overruns, schedule slippages, and performance lapses still plague nearly all weapon system acquisitions.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.
National Defense April 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	For Defense Industry, the Path Forward Is Still Clouded by Uncertainty For industry, what does this all mean? One industry professional has described the current environment as "Eisenhower's big nightmare." Could a reasonably competitive industry survive large reductions in funding?
CFO October 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick	Losing Battles Two decades of failed Pentagon financial reforms put more than just dollars at risk. And serious reform in so enormous an organization will still take a Herculean effort.
National Defense November 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Defense Spending: Today's 'Broken' Budgeting Process Must Change The defense budget process is a balancing act, where selected segments of the government and industry determine the allocation of resources to a vast array of requirements. The process, however, has not worked.
National Defense June 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Publishes New Safety Guidelines For Unmanned Vehicles These comprehensive safety guidelines cover the design and operation of joint-service unmanned vehicles -- including unmanned aircraft and ground- and sea-based vehicles.
National Defense June 2015 Scott Trail	Focusing on Cost Is Not the Answer For decades, defense acquisition reforms have aimed to reduce the cost of equipping our nation's defenders. Unfortunately, none of these reforms has produced the kind of reductions envisioned by their originators.
National Defense September 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Next Pentagon Procurement 'Bow Wave' Will Be a Tsunami With the Defense Department now facing a precipitous drop in new equipment purchases over the next two years, the green-eyeshade crowd already is predicting a huge bow wave for 2018 and beyond, which could be the biggest one yet.
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.
CFO October 1, 2004 Julia Homer	Pentagon Priorities Financial reform at the Department of Defense is hindered by an element that could guarantee failure even if every other obstacle were eliminated: lack of a consistent leader.
Parameters November 2004 Augustus W. Fountain Iii	Transforming Defense Basic Research Strategy The US armed forces currently enjoy an unprecedented level of technological superiority across the full spectrum of military threats.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Susan Hassler	Driving the DOD Toward Change This is the time for verifiable oversight, true accountability, and rigorous project management at the Department of Defense.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground.
National Defense January 2010	Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Defense acquisition woes... Recruiting talent... Technology challenges... Air Force tanker... Renewable energy...
National Defense December 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable.
Scientific American March 13, 2006 Daniel G. Dupont	Software Insecurity A good deal of code for some of the military's most sophisticated weapons -- fighter aircraft and missile defense systems, for example -- is written in other countries, creating an obvious risk to national security.
National Defense January 2011	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Stories on future defense planning and the reform of defense budgeting provoke a response from readers.
National Defense July 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
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 April 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	No Way to Escape Tighter Budgets, Acquisition Reform Two major developments are stirring many questions and concerns about what the current mood means for the industry.
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 June 2005 Sandra Erwin	Procurement Probes Framed By Bleak Financial Forecast A string of procurement debacles at the Defense Department has stirred, yet again, calls for drastic reforms in military acquisition rules and policies.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Workers: No More Reforms! Agencies have been deluged by reform proposals and never have enough time to implement them before the next wave.
National Defense February 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	State of Manufacturing Base Is Cause for Concern One lesson that we learned from the "Buy America" debate last year was the need for a thorough and detailed discussion on a national level about the state of the U.S. industrial base, particularly the capabilities of American industry to manufacture sophisticated components for weapon systems.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Less Money, But Still Business As Usual As the dust begins to settle to reveal a leaner defense budget, Pentagon contractors are strategizing for the new business environment. They also will be parsing the latest batch of Pentagon policies designed to turn around failing weapon acquisition programs.
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.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	The More Things Change... A sampling of viewpoints about problems in defense acquisitions over the last 25 years.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	Advice for the Next U.S. President: Fix Military Acquisitions Several leading defense acquisition experts offer a few observations and recommendations for the next president.
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel	Military Investigates Killer Drones That Can Fit in Rucksacks Troops are demanding smaller unmanned aerial vehicles on the front lines, sparking efforts to develop lighter weapons for the aircraft. Now there are plans to make weapons out of the drones themselves.
National Defense May 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Uncertainty About Budgets, Workforce Shape Future of U.S. Weapons Industry Uncertainty about future conflicts and the capabilities of potential enemies raise complex questions about what weaponry the U.S. military will need to counter a wide spectrum of threats.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Among Pentagon Buyers, Much Angst About IT The Pentagon procurement system treats information technology as if it were a weapon system, and may take a decade to acquire. By the time the technology is fielded, it is five generations too old.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates: Industry Unharmed By Program Cancellations The Pentagon needs to stop buying "exquisite" technology that does not meet real military needs in favor of larger quantities of critical items.
National Defense September 2014	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Problems in DoD Acquisitions... Budget Fights... Nonlethal Weapons...
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control.