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National Defense February 2007 Corrigan & Hickey	Contractors Should Get Ready for Scrutiny Federal contractors must be prepared for the change in political and business climate in Congress. Companies can minimize risks by assessing political dangers and self-assessing ethics and compliance programs.
National Defense March 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	DoD Needs a Real Budget, Not a Partial Fix As the budget standoff continues on Capitol Hill, it is almost certain that sequester soon will be upon the nation. Automatic, across-the-board budget cuts will affect discretionary spending government wide. But everyone wonders how it will all be sorted out.
National Defense April 2015 Arnold L. Punaro	The Case for Repealing Sequestration This year will either be a turning point away from sequester levels or the ship of state will crash head on into the sequester iceberg resulting in a titanic disaster.
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 August 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Forecast Calls for Stormy Business Climate Bad news keeps piling up for Pentagon contractors. In the past six months alone, the defense-contracting sector has been buffeted by draconian budget cuts and by proposed new rules.
National Defense March 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	In Budgets as in War, Hope Is Not a Strategy Wishful thinking has been taken to new heights in this year's Pentagon budget. The hope is that Congress will somehow make peace after years of partisan trench warfare.
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 October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Fears of the Incredibly Shrinking Defense Budget May Be Overblown A defense industry apocalypse is not here yet: Everyone in Washington is always in favor of savings in the abstract but when they see the particulars, they tend to get cold feet.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Medical Costs Threaten Pentagon's Fiscal Health As if his weapons budget proposals weren't already a tough sell on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates also will try to get Congress to endorse unpopular health care fees for military retirees.
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.
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Drawdown: It's Been All Talk, Now It's Time to Walk U.S. military spending peaked in 2010 at $668 billion. It has dropped slightly since then, as the military started withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. But real austerity has yet to come.
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 March 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget May Be Safe For Now, But Weapon Makers Should Worry If the current discourse over defense spending were a self-help bestseller, it would be titled, "How to Live in Denial About Being Broke."
National Defense July 2015 Jon Harper	Military Retirement Reform Moves Forward In recent weeks, the congressional armed services committees voted to make major alterations to the U.S. military's retirement system, as the Pentagon seeks to control personnel costs that threaten to crowd out future spending on modernization and readiness.
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.
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense?
National Defense October 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Golden Age of Federal Contracting Is Over Washington has dealt crushing blows to the national security establishment. There are no predictable budgets for the Pentagon to map out its weapons wish list, or for contractors to project their future business.
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Howard Gleckman	The Budget: Hey Guys, Get Real President Bush says he wants to cut the deficit in half by 2009. Here's why that's not likely to happen.
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.
National Defense October 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	President's Half-Trillion Dollar Jobs Plan Muddies the Defense Budget Waters What one wonders though is how the new requirement to "pay for" the Jobs Bill will affect defense spending.
National Defense September 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Control Act of 2011 Forces Real Cuts to Defense, and Difficult Choices Enactment of the Budget Control Act of 2011 now provides specific information on the future course of defense spending.
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 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 September 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Fight Continues as Details Emerge and SecDef Amps Up Rhetoric As the potential impact of sequestration begins to settle in -- and details of its impact begin to emerge -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is elevating his rhetoric.
National Defense July 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequestration Looming: Defense Should Be Prepared for All Possible Scenarios If no further legislative action is taken before January, the Budget Control Act directs a reduction of $97 billion in discretionary federal spending for fiscal year 2013. The calculations work out to $42 billion from domestic programs and $55 billion from defense.
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Battle Looms Over Military Health Care Reform Members of the Armed Services Committees are expected to make a push this year for military health care reform. But opposition from advocacy groups and lawmakers standing for reelection may stymie those efforts, analysts said.
National Defense June 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	For Defense Industry, Lure of Shiny Objects Rapidly Fading The erstwhile dependable moneymakers in the defense industry no longer look like safe bets. Big-ticket weapon systems are being delayed, terminated, investigated or mired in endless reviews.
National Defense December 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget Guessing Game: How Low Will It Go? As it became apparent that political dysfunction had replaced deliberate planning in Washington, John Hamre, CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, called on the nation's policymakers to "define the bottom," and allow defense to resize accordingly.
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 September 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Sequester Sinks In, Extent of Fallout Unknown After a chaotic 2013, when the Pentagon had to slash $37 billion between March and September, Defense Department accountants ought to be better prepared for the next round. That will be a $52 billion hit for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	Pentagon Budget Faces Tough Battle on Capitol Hill President George W. Bush for 2008 has submitted to Congress one of the largest-ever budget requests for the U.S. DOD, but the Pentagon's proposed budget faces perhaps its toughest battle in Congress in the last 15 years.
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.
BusinessWeek December 2, 2010 Przybyla & Faler	Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See Neither the President's panel nor the most hawkish budget-cutters would balance the federal budget for decades to come.
Geotimes August 2004 Emily Lehr Wallace	Budget Procrastination If the average American were aware enough of the budget process to be outraged by this governance via procrastination, perhaps the Congress would get the message and perform one of their central duties in an efficient and timely manner.
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Budget Woes May Force Homeland Security To Cut Missions Sequester or no sequester, the Department of Homeland Security is in store for changes, a Senate Appropriations Committee staffer predicted.
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Howard Gleckman	The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history.
National Defense May 2012 Berteau & Murdock	Defense Department Must Prepare for Deeper Budget Cuts The post-election bargaining over taxes and government spending will be intense and hard-fought. The Defense Department needs to make it clear to all the players what the real consequences for the nation's security are of ill-considered, deep cuts to a defense budget that is already on the decline.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Begins Broad Review Of Acquisition Workforce Skills The Pentagon has launched an extensive evaluation of military acquisition and contracting personnel in order to gauge their skills and competence.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	Despite Deal, More Budget Battles Loom Democrats and Republicans recently reached a bipartisan budget agreement that lifts sequestration caps on defense expenditures and avoids a government shutdown. But more fiscal fights lie ahead.
National Defense January 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Deal Gives Defense Breathing Room The budget agreement that Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., announced Dec. 10 called for delaying a portion of sequester for two years and proposed $85 billion in "light touch" savings over 10 years.
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy	Military R&D could see decline in coming years Faced with a growing need to replenish war-ravaged equipment, Defense Department research and development spending is expected to level off and, then, gradually decrease through the balance of this decade.
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Roxana Tiron	Defense Contractors Brace for the Big Squeeze Defense contractors may be in for cutbacks similar to the squeeze that occurred after the end of the Cold War.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Defense Watch: Fiscal Storm on the Horizon The nation's soaring budget deficits will leave future administrations--whether they are Republican or Democrat--no choice but to cut defense.
National Defense May 2011 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Viewpoint: Defense Acquisition in an Unaccountable World Current and former government officials testified in March before the subcommittee for financial management of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is looking into cost overruns on weapons development programs.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2011 Morgan Housel	Here, You Fix the Budget By next Wednesday, a group of politicians dubbed the "supercommittee" has to come up with a plan to slash federal deficits by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
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 August 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Support for U.S. Troops Should Always Rise Above Partisan Politics Heated debate continues over the impact of $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts to the federal budget that could begin next year.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2011 Rebecca Lipman	Defense Stocks: Which Stocks Are Vulnerable to Budget Cuts? Will the market start dumping these names if defense spending is cut?: BE Aerospace... Breeze-Eastern... Esterline Technologies... Honeywell International... Hexcel... Teledyne Technologies...
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 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Business Reaches Inflection Point Acquisition flops over the past decade have put the fear of God into Pentagon leaders who now face the added pressure of having to ensure programs perform in a zero-tolerance environment, and with budget cuts to boot.