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BudgetService Chiefs Tell HASC They Cannot Support Defense Strategy With Full Sequester
The service chiefs spent Wednesday morning outlining the effects of full sequestration to the House Armed Services Committee, after committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) told them in his opening statement […]
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CSBA Report Urges Long-Term Plan To Protect Defense Industrial Base
The Defense Department ought to develop a long-term strategy for maintaining the health of its industrial base and use that plan to ensure that budget cuts do not eliminate critical […]
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Clapper Says Intelligence Community Will Take ‘Higher Risks’ Amid Sequestration
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said yesterday that the Intelligence Community (IC) will have to make “strategic decisions” about cutting costs and accepting “higher risks” as it faces another […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Develops DIRCM Solution Targeted For F-35
Northrop Grumman [NOC] has privately funded a direct infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) solution for fast-moving jets that it hopes to get on the F-35. Known as Threat Nullification Defensive Resource (ThNDR), […]
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Air Force
Rolls-Royce Joins BAE Systems’ Team To Pursue Air Force’s T-X Contract
BAE Systems said yesterday Rolls-Royce is joining its Hawk Advanced Jet Training System (AJTS) team as an exclusive partner to help compete for the Air Force’s potentially $30 billion T-X […]
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Navy May Delay Los Angeles-Class Sub Retirements To Mitigate SSN Shortfall
The Navy is beginning to monitor its Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) attack submarines to determine if any can remain in the fleet past their expected service lives, as the SSN fleet […]
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International AEHF Partners Working Toward Terminal Development Testing, Air Force Says
The United States anticipates that its international Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite constellation partners–Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom–will join it in performing terminal development testing in the […]
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Air Force
DoD, NASA Request Nearly $44 Billion In Future Launch Funding, GAO Says
The Defense Department and NASA together are expected to require nearly $44 billion for launch-related activities from fiscal years 2014 through 2018, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report […]
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Professional Services Industry Commission Sees Human Capital Crisis In Government
It is time to fundamentally rethink and revise current human capital strategies, including planning, development, performance management and, in some cases, structures within the federal government because previous efforts to […]
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Air Force
DoD’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Program Successfully Air Launches First Prototype
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully air launched in late August their prototype for the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program. […]