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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. |
National Defense
June 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon. |
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 |
InternetNews
September 9, 2010 |
Obama Calls for Expanded R&D Tax Credit Tech companies could benefit from a permanent credit for research, insiders say. |
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. |
On Wall Street
June 21, 2013
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Are 529s at Risk? As Congress reconsiders various tax breaks it voted into existence (home mortgage deductions, etc.), could 529s come in for increased scrutiny and possible elimination? |
National Defense
March 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Budget Cuts Are Only Prelude to Future 'Grand Bargain' Politicians and think tanks have been hyperventilating over the $487 billion budget cut that the Pentagon will have to make during the next decade. |
National Defense
May 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Soaring Costs Not Likely to Slow Down Global Hawk The Global Hawk spy aircraft has become a shining example of leap-forward technology. The aircraft also has emerged as a cautionary tale for what government auditors consider a high-risk and costly approach to building weapon systems. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 25, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Obama Says Stimulus is for Helping People, Not Banks In his speech before Congress President Obama expressed his confidence in the banking system itself, reassuring Americans that their money was safe in the nation's banks. What he said was of concern to him was the credit crisis. |
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
July 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Contractors Reach New Levels of Frustration With Obama White House Over the past nine to 10 months, corporations have begun to lose confidence in government, and executives are faulting the president for not doing more to untangle the current morass that could leave many contractors sinking in the muck. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Is Congress Hurting Market Returns? Practically the entire advance in the market since 1897 corresponds to the periods when Congress is in recess? Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
August 30, 2005
Roy Mark |
GAO: Feds Not Protecting Citizen Privacy Government agencies are making progress, but are still not completely complying with federal rules regarding data mining and personal information. |
IndustryWeek
March 17, 2010 |
Obama Administration Pushing its Labor Agenda -- EFCA or No EFCA Labor experts see the Obama administration pushing its labor agenda regardless of what happens with the Employee Free Choice Act. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Why Congress Loves Bank Stocks Little wonder that in a world where Congress can legally trade on inside information, the most faith is put in companies where Congress' actions influence most of the outcome. |
Reason
June 2004
Brian Doherty |
Will It Fly The Federal Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II) is behind schedule accroding to the General Accounting Office. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2011
Rich Smith |
Putting the "Intel" in "Military Intelligence" The Pentagon's cybersecurity spending spree has an obvious winner. |
BusinessWeek
September 8, 2010
Thomas Black |
Obama's Infrastructure Plan: More Cash Could Hit the Road The President aims to spend $50 billion on transportation infrastructure |
National Defense
August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Sec Gates Saving the Juicy Insider Gossip for the Big-Bucks Speaking Circuit Journalists on repeated occasions have asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to compare and contrast Bush & Obama. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2011
Rich Smith |
Department of Defense Rejects GE The alternative F-35 engine is dead. Long live the original engine. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2011 |
Obama Unveils R&D, Mobile Broadband Agenda In his State of the Union address, president touts goals to bring high-speed wireless broadband to 98 percent of Americans and drive innovation to bolster U.S. competitiveness. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Susan Hassler |
The Audacity Of Technology What President Barack Obama needs to do to improve technology. |
National Defense
May 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies. |
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. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Radley Balko |
Unaccountable Obama: So much for transparency "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," Barack Obama promised during his campaign for the White House. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Rich Smith |
Boeing Gets the Boot Boeing's challenge of a Pentagon award to build America's Next Top Humvee has been definitively rejected. And that could be good news for investors. |
National Defense
May 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs |
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The F-22 Is Dead President Barack Obama has hailed the Senate's decision to stop additional production of F-22 fighter jets, saying the move will "better protect our troops." |
Reason
July 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Ten Percent Solution The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Secure Flight passenger profiling system reforms stall at the gate: Congress established 10 criteria to ensure the program would both be effective and protect traveler privacy. A March report found that only one benchmark has been met. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2008
Rich Smith |
A Contract Is Awarded, and Humvee Hilarity Ensues Boeing and Textron complain to the Government Accountability Office about having lost the Pentagon's Humvee contract. Northrop Grumman, and Oshkosh have filed protests as well. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2009 |
Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples. |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Fault Lines President Obama's first 100 days left him far more popular with the general public than with the business community. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011 |
Clipped Wings Defense contractors are trying to fend off liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, all looking for savings in the Pentagon's budget. Here are the programs already on the chopping block. |
National Defense
September 2015
Jon Harper |
GAO Concerned About Special Ops Budget Metrics The Defense Department is not effectively assessing how much it spends on special operations forces, the Government Accountability Office said in a recent report. |
National Defense
December 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
Mighty Pentagon Can't Deny Market Forces Market forces are such that the Defense Department could be headed toward a future of greater dependence on fewer and increasingly more powerful monopolies. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
Heidi Przybyla |
Social Security Gets a Reprieve--for Now Obama may put off Social Security reform until a hoped-for second term, unless Republicans take the initiative. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Runningen & Nichols |
Obama's Budget: Something for Everyone to Hate The President's proposed 2012 spending cuts won't win him a lot of friends |
