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National Defense May 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Pressures Beg for a Serious Look at Overhauling Acquisition System Perhaps it is time to go back to the future by doing things the way we did them in the past, when the chiefs and the military leadership were deeply involved in all aspects of equipping the service -- in requirements, in budgeting for equipping and training.
National Defense February 2013	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Ret. Air Force Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze writes in on the topic of how to fix defense acquisition and offers several suggestions.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	A Prescription for the Air Force's Ailing Acquisition System Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz sign off on an "acquisition improvement plan" that articulates current flaws in the service's weapons procurement process and proposes ways to fix them.
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 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 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 March 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	When Will the Military Services Come To Grips With a New Era of Austerity? Even with a smaller funding pie, the U.S. military services should be able to weather the coming budget reductions. But the services are anxious and insecure institutions. They want more, and they insist that their equipment is aging and in need of modernization.
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 July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Tries to Recapture Tech Glory Days After spending $50 billion over the past decade on failed weapons programs, the Pentagon is grasping for answers. Assorted procurement reforms have been tried, but they have delivered only marginal results.
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.
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 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.
National Defense May 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Faces Fiscal Churn Beyond 2015 The defense sector breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act earlier this year. The respite, however, has been short lived.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra i. Erwin	New Business Model Needed To Replace the Status Quo In the weapons-acquisition world, the "normal" ways of doing business are frowned upon around the E-ring these days.
National Defense November 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Fiscal Cliff Watch: Running Out of Time to Fix the Mess If the House and Senate fail to act in the coming weeks, massive federal spending cuts will kick in Jan. 2. That is when the automatic sequester -- scheduled by law to implement phase two of the Budget Control Act of 2011 -- becomes effective.
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.
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 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 December 2015 Mike McCord	Bipartisan Budget Act a Positive Step The secretary of defense and other leaders of the Pentagon have called on Congress to come together to address the sequestration problem by repealing or significantly increasing the spending caps contained in the Budget Control Act of 2011
National Defense April 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	In the Grips of Crises Abroad and at Home When considering the nation's budget problems at home -- how do we fund increasingly expensive government programs, keep faith with all promises and underwrite U.S. security and worldwide commitments? The answer is that we cannot do it all.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	A Fresh Perspective on Government Waste Amid the screaming and gnashing of teeth over the looming cuts is the inconvenient reality that government -- and the Pentagon more than any other agency -- is bloated and now might be an opportune time to put it on a crash diet.
National Defense September 2004 David M. Walker	Defense Transformation: A Battle the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose A crunch is coming. Although national defense and homeland security have received generous funding in recent years, this cannot continue indefinitely. Defense budgets of the future almost certainly will be tighter. It is time to recognize that we are in a fiscal hole, and stop digging.
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 March 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Debate Continues on Future of Defense Every service is contemplating reductions in personnel and force structure, with the Army perhaps facing the steepest cuts.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.
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 September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess A decade of soaring Pentagon spending is coming to an end, and it is leaving behind considerable fiscal wreckage.
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 October 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Budget Picture Begins to Take Shape Major adjustments will be required across the defense community -- the military services, agencies, commands and industry. Significant decisions are becoming harder and harder to duck.
National Defense January 2015 Arnold L. Punaro	New Leadership a Boost to National Security The new leadership of the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees will build on the already strong bipartisan record of supporting a strong national security.
National Defense May 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	New Budget Spells More Uncertainty for DoD President Barack Obama sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $526.6 billion for fiscal year 2014. That top line, however, ignores the fact that it would be subject to a $52 billion sequester cut, as Congress mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011.
National Defense June 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Fiscal Fight Takes Toll on Military Readiness During fiscal year 2013, the Defense Department was funded by temporary measures, or continuing resolutions, that put a huge crimp on operations and maintenance spending.
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 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 May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Plans for Global Information Grid Unrealistic A Pentagon effort to develop a global network that connects all military services and Defense Department agencies could fail as a result of current procurement and funding policies, says the Government Accountability Office.
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 June 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	For Defense, a Tough Budget Balancing Act Will fiscal year 2016 be a repeat of 2013, when gridlock prevailed and sequester ensued. Will there be some relief as we saw in fiscal year 2014 and 2015?
National Defense August 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Can Washington Get Us Back on Track? The origins of the current fiscal and political crisis that is affecting the defense community can be traced back to the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks when the United States began to gear up for two major wars.
National Defense November 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Coping Mechanisms for D.C. Dysfunction Government funding upheaval and unpredictable twists in procurement red tape have become the norm in the defense business.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2011 Frederic Brunner	Growing Stronger After the Storm To manage through a resource-constrained environment, it is essential to get the most out of procurement planning
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 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.
National Defense January 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	We Must Prepare for Defense Budget Crunch Substantial growth in defense spending after 9/11 gave the Pentagon's budget a reprieve. The day of financial reckoning, however, may fast be approaching if the current state of the nation's balance sheet offers any clues.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Fortune Tellers See a Mix of Boom and Bust For the defense industry, depending on whom you talk to, these are the best of times, and the worst of times.
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.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Small Businesses: Showered With Praise, But Not Shown Much Love While Pentagon higher-ups and politicians shower praise on small businesses, in the muddy trenches of government contracting, it can be ugly. According to industry accounts, the entire procurement process is a path strewn with obstacles.
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 November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Companies See Bright Spots in Bleak Market There are still companies that have the stomach to invest in defense. Some actually view these tough times as an opportunity to win new business.
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 December 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Causing Lasting Damage to Defense Sequestration, if continued on present course, will result in serious damage and degradation to U.S. military capability and to our national security writ large.