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National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Air Force Facing Budgetary Train Wreck Absent a major increase in topline funding, the Air Force acquisition budget will experience a crunch in the 2020s, analysts said.
National Defense January 2016 Jon Harper	Budget Deal Won't End Defense Funding Debate Powerful lawmakers will seek a higher topline for defense than what was agreed upon in the recent Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, according to a senior congressional staffer.
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.
AFP eWire September 6, 2011	Identify Your Funding Model That Makes the Most Impact The Bridgespan Group has released a new guide for nonprofit leaders aimed at helping organizations identify strategies for identifying, creating and implementing long-range funding models.
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 November 2015 Jon Harper	Continuing Resolutions Bind the Pentagon If lawmakers continue funding the government through continuing resolutions, it would be difficult for the Defense Department to recover, according to a leading independent budget analyst.
National Defense September 2015 Jon Harper	GAO Concerned About Special Ops Budget Metrics The Defense Department is not effectively assessing how much it spends on special operations forces, the Government Accountability Office said in a recent report.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Break its Addiction to Supplementals? This Gotterdammerung -- also known as the end of supplemental budgets -- is being met with a mix of anxiety and resignation.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	The Defense Budget Showdown Funding for the Defense Department in fiscal year 2016 remains clouded with uncertainty as President Barack Obama and the GOP continue to spar over the federal budget.
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.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2004 Jill Jusko	MEP Supporters Fight For Funding Severe cuts to manufacturing extension partnership program threaten small manufacturers, they proclaim.
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009	Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples.
National Defense August 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Must Sustain Investment in Basic Research One of the mainstay sources of strength of the U.S. military is its ability to continually generate new technologies, both for current and future battlefields.
National Defense October 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Continuing Resolution an Unnecessary Evil Nothing is encouraging for securing approval of a defense appropriations bill by the beginning of fiscal 2016, and the likelihood grows that defense might be handicapped by another government shutdown.
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 February 2014 Valerie Insinna	Operational Funds Could Play Bigger Role in Network Modernization The Defense Department is making progress in modernizing its network infrastructure, but most information technology funding still goes toward maintaining current systems.
National Defense March 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	QDR Lays Out Strategy, But Can We Afford It? At first glance, the fiscal year 2007 defense budget reflects the arduous challenges facing the administration in trying to balance long-term strategy and requirements against immediate priorities and fiscal pressures.
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.
Chemistry World March 7, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Obama's proposed science budget disappoints US researchers and science advocates are expressing significant disappointment at funding proposals for research agencies in President Obama's budget request for 2015.
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 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 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	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 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.
Chemistry World May 2009	Column: Undercover academic Sometimes I would just like the opportunity to try something out without it being a major research project.
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 December 2014 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Mulls Strategy for Next Arms Race The idea that the United States might see its overwhelming dominance in weapons technology erode is hard to comprehend, however, given the enormous spending gap between the Pentagon and everyone else.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Lawmakers Question Defense Strategy for 'Rapid' Acquisitions The House Armed Services Committee questions whether the Pentagon can permanently change the way it buys equipment so it does not have to create a new agency every time there is an urgent need.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2011 Rich Smith	Danger! Budget Cuts Ahead! Congress takes an ax to defense projects. Who stands to lose their heads?
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.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2010 Rich Smith	Marines Under Fire From Pentagon Cuts In the battle to balance the budget, Marines find themselves in the crossfire. The President's panel proposed a wholesale reduction in Pentagon hardware spending.
Geotimes February 2006	Budget Blues and Bonuses In his State of the Union Address, President Bush gave the public a sneak-peak at his funding priorities for fiscal year 2007 in the sciences: In a nutshell... Renewable resources, alternative energy shifts... Other basic research... etc.
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.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2010 Rich Smith	Lockheed Martin Short-Circuits F-35 orders are getting pushed back an unlucky 13 months to allow for extra testing of the plane.
National Defense April 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget Fight: Big-Ticket Weapons Square Off In these times of tight military budgets, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories surrounding the future of big-ticket weapon systems.
CIO July 1, 2001 Matt Villano	You Get What You Pay For Taxpayers financed the invention of the Internet, but with fewer government dollars earmarked for IT research, the next killer app may not be made in America...
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.
Chemistry World June 8, 2011 Laura Howes	MPs warn funding reform threatens university places A cross party group of MPs has said that the new funding arrangements for UK higher education will result in a 'significant funding gap of hundreds of millions of pounds'.
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?