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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 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 February 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	We Have a Budget Deal: What Comes Next? The passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 gave the Defense Department some relief from the sequester and some breathing room to adjust its spending beyond fiscal year 2015 to fit within the budget caps that Congress mandated in 2011.
National Defense April 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Sets Stage for Fight With Congress It initially appeared that the Defense Department's budget for fiscal year 2015 had at last offered some much needed breathing room for the military to prepare for leaner times. But it is now clear that the same challenges will continue into 2016.
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 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 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 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 March 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Themes: Investments Leveled, Programs Slipped, Non-Performers Nixed A big portion of the discretionary spending reductions in President Obama's 2013 to 2017 funding request is in the defense budget.
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 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 January 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Some Clarity on Budgets Emerges, But Industrial Base Outlook Remains Murky The Defense Department will be submitting the fiscal year 2013 budget that meets the first set of spending caps mandated by the August Budget Control Act.
National Defense September 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Impact: More Than Meets the Eye The downside to falling unemployment is that total employment remains down, and as a percentage of the workforce it is at a historic low. But pundits generally agree that this sequester thing has been overstated and overblown.
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 January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
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 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?
National Defense February 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	One Fiscal Cliff Down and Three More to Go The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation the president signed Jan. 2 would increase the deficit by nearly $4 trillion over the next 10 years. It is almost certain that defense will have to surrender additional revenue, perhaps another $10 billion to $20 billion per year.
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 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.
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 August 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	'Perfect Storm' for Defense Is Here, For Real This Time There have been many warnings in recent years about a "perfect storm" threatening U.S. defense spending. These dire predictions so far have not been taken seriously as military budgets doubled during the past decade.
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 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 April 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Budget: Some Clues Have Emerged, But More Uncertainty Ahead The political season is upon us, and much of the rhetoric adds little visibility to the direction for defense.
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 August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget.
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 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 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.
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 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 September 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	With Gates' Proposals, the Edge Of the Perfect Storm Comes Ashore Defense Secretary Robert Gates just issued a significant series of budgetary and programmatic decisions that begin the major adjustment process he announced in early May at the Eisenhower Library in Kansas.
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.
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 August 2013 Lou Kratz	As Spending Comes Down, Strategic Choices Needed After more than a decade of conflict, the United States has begun to draw down defense spending, with sequestration cuts expected to continue over the coming years.
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 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 July 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Difficult Choices Lie Ahead for The Nation's Military Services Much discussion -- even hand wringing -- is taking place among the military, Congress and defense industry about where finite resources need to be placed.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	How Far Will Gates Go in 2011? Defense budget gloom-and-doom vibes are spreading inside the beltway. Secretary Robert Gates says to expect modest increases of no more than 2 percent in the coming years.
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 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 November 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Nation Paying Steep Price for Rash Decisions The author examines several decisions such as the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the accompanying sequester.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing modest increases in procurement and research for the U.S. Navy, yet the U.S. Air Force faces small reductions and the U.S. Army is facing cuts of more than 17 percent.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military.
National Defense December 2014 Lawrence Farrell Jr.	Time to Get Serious About Tough Problems Our increasingly complex and intense military operations need political support, funding and national understanding, in addition to a clear definition of what is to be expected.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	Defense Spending Set to Increase for Electronics and Electro-Optics Programs in 2007 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense propose spending nearly $21.3 billion in fiscal year 2007 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell	Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war?
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	DOD Set to Boost Spending for Communications, Electronics, and Intelligence Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $29.16 billion in 2009 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.
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.