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National Defense May 2009 William Y. Bishop	Pentagon Acquisition Rules Exacerbate Problems The defense industry has launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington saying that future reductions in acquisition funding will put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.
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 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 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 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 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
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 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.
National Defense January 2015 J. Michael Gilmore	History of U.S. Weapons Proves Value of Realistic Operational Testing Recently, there has been criticism that operational testing drives substantial cost increases and schedule slippage in programs and that its scope should be limited. The facts do not support these beliefs.
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 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 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.
InternetNews November 15, 2007	U.S. Panel Urges Vigilance on China Spying, Cyber War Chinese espionage poses "single greatest risk" to American technology, a congressional report says.
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 February 2013 Dale Church	The Name of the Acquisition Game is Empowerment and Accountability Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Frank Kendall's "better buying power" initiatives deserve applause, but it is also important to examine the root cause of many of the problems in the defense acquisition system.
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Downturn Sets Off Mergers, And a Search for Non-U.S. Customers The defense industry is wasting no time to maneuver into position for the coming downturn in spending.
National Defense August 2009	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers weigh in on competition for defense contracts and the true cause of cost overruns in defense spending.
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.
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 May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology.
National Defense November 2011	Readers Sound off on Recent Stories Military benefits under fire... Energy security... Military acquisitions... Smartphones in the army...
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 January 2010	Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Defense acquisition woes... Recruiting talent... Technology challenges... Air Force tanker... Renewable energy...
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 May 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	AC-130J Ghostrider Program Hits Developmental Snags The aircraft's developers face a number of developmental issues, including trouble integrating the precision strike package -- a key component of the new gunship.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	What President Reagan Meant to the Military The passing of former President Ronald Reagan and the solemn ceremonies marking the event are pivotal milestones in our nation's recent history -- particularly for the U.S. military forces.
IDB America September 2005	IDB Supports Program to Consolidate Financial Sector in Mexico The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $600 million loan to Mexico to support policy reforms to deepen financial markets.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2009 Morgan Housel	Credit Card Regulation: Grasping at the Past The House of Representatives passed a bill to up the start date on credit card reform from February 22, 2010, to right away, to prevent customers being taken advantage of.
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 June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Must Measure True Cost of Fuel, Says Ashton Carter The Pentagon must factor the additional transportation and security costs associated with each weapon system, said the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
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.