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National Defense January 2016 Sid Ashworth	Turning Point Coming for National Security The national security landscape has seen significant change over the past five years. The number of deployed forces declined by more than 60 percent from 2011 to the start of 2016, and the Budget Control Act of 2011 ushered in a period of uncertainty.
National Defense June 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Innovation and the Defense Industrial Base Secretary of Defense Ash Carter generated quite a buzz during his recent trip to Silicon Valley, and for good reason. It has been a generation since former Secretary Bill Perry traveled to this recognized home of high-tech innovation.
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 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 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 2011 Linda Hillmer	Networking is Essential for Small Businesses The nation's largest defense contractors, many of whom are world-renowned for major weapons systems, are members of NDIA, but so are some of the country's most innovative small businesses.
National Defense November 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Industry Responds to New Security Environment The sweeping changes seen in the military and national security posture of the United States in recent years will have far-reaching implications, particularly for those in the business of defense.
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 June 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Manufacturing Matters to the Nation's Economy and Security A detailed discussion of the nation's manufacturing challenges and their implications for national security.
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 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 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 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 March 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Budget Sets Stage for Tough Choices Ahead As Congress continues to dissect the details of the Bush administration's proposed defense budget for fiscal year 2008, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the nation's military faces a worrisome financial future.
National Defense February 2013	NDIA Urges Preservation of Government-Industry Dialogue National Defense Industrial Association President Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. emphasized the necessity for government-industry communication and the problems caused by recent complex and restrictive conference participation procedures imposed on Defense Department personnel.
National Defense February 2015 Will Goodman	The Acquisition System Can Be Improved One Step at a Time Although everyone seems to agree that acquisition reform is necessary and helpful, few are prepared to sacrifice their prerogatives to bring it about.
National Defense December 2015 Craig R. McKinley	The Year Ends on Some Positive Notes There have been some positive developments during the past few weeks that pertain to our national security and the immediate health and future prospects of the nation's defense industry.
National Defense February 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Industrial Base Issues on the Agenda for 2007 Six issues that affect everyone involved in the business of providing goods and services to the nation's military, homeland security agencies and first responders.
National Defense May 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Administration's Export Reforms Are a Step in the Right Direction President Barack Obama believes the U.S. export control system is rooted in the Cold War era and must be updated to address the threats the nation faces today and in the changing economic and technological landscape.
National Defense April 2004 Tyrone Taylor & Ben Stone	Small Business Division Reviews First Year The National Defense Industrial Association refocused its efforts to represent the interests of its small business members by creating the Small Business Division. Its mission is to focus specifically on issues affecting small business defense contractors.
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 March 2013 Jeffery A. Green	Congress Finally Tackles Strategic Materials Reform With the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress has enacted significant reforms to the Defense Department's acquisition and industrial base policy.
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 September 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Congress Should Follow Its Budget Rules Of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will be leaving their positions or retiring this September, none ever had a defense budget passed on time under regular order following the procedures of the Budget Control Act of 1974 during their entire term in office.
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 2007 Steffes & Burnside	Restrictions on Flight Simulators Questioned A legislative restriction on providing flight simulators to the military services has the potential to seriously impact the readiness of our aviators in the military services.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon	The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established.
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 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.
National Defense April 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level.
National Defense May 2015 Eoyang & Freeman	Why the U.S. Must Reform The Military Personnel System If our military hopes to continue employing the best and brightest, it needs to consider fundamentally changing the military personnel system, not merely tinker with pay and benefits.
National Defense September 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Elusive 'Grand Bargain' on Military Benefits Few issues in Washington are as politically toxic as meddling with military pay and benefits.
National Defense June 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building.
National Defense May 2006 Peter M. Steffes	Congress Should Consider Further Acquisition Reform National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) believes that additional legislation is needed to achieve the full degree of cost savings and comprehensive acquisition reform envisioned
Parameters Spring 2005 George H. Quester	Demographic Trends and Military Recruitment: Surprising Possibilities This article will attempt to project current demographic trends in the United States and abroad, along with several related determinants, a substantial distance into the future, so as to explore some possibly surprising implications for the recruitment of armed forces
Parameters November 2004 Augustus W. Fountain Iii	Transforming Defense Basic Research Strategy The US armed forces currently enjoy an unprecedented level of technological superiority across the full spectrum of military threats.
Fast Company May 2010 Jeff Chu	How America's Top Military Officer Uses Business to Boost National Security Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.
National Defense June 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Debate Must Recognize Tough Realities Recent American political debate has been more focused on rhetorical back-and-forth than real treatment of critical issues, like the work our military forces are doing in the global war on terrorism, and what they are telling us about their needs for resources.
National Defense November 2011	Readers Sound off on Recent Stories Military benefits under fire... Energy security... Military acquisitions... Smartphones in the army...
National Defense June 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Manufacturing: A Crisis in the Making Defense manufacturing is like the weather. Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything.
National Defense March 2011	Statement of Defense Industry Ethics In November 2004, after several months of in-depth review the National Defense Industrial Association finalized and published its Code of Ethics. Five years later in 2009, NDIA undertook to review, and, in a small number of ways made minor but we believe worthy revisions.
National Defense February 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	To Improve Cyber-Security, U.S. Needs Cohesive Public-Private Partnership NDIA member companies recently put together a white paper on the necessity to better acquire and field cyber-capabilities.
National Defense July 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Industry Ethics: Going Beyond the Call of Duty A seemingly endless stream of bad news about U.S. weapon programs should cause all of us to revisit our approach to ethics in the defense industry.