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  USAF Budget Request Both Upbeat and Dour

  Posted by Michael Bruno 10:37 AM on Apr 10, 2013

  The U.S. Air Force is cutting down its buy of MQ-9A Reaper UAV in its fiscal 2014 budget request, to 12 from twice that slated for this fiscal year, but the armed service is mainta... Read More >>

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  Saying What Could Not Be Said

  Posted by Michael Bruno 10:41 AM on Apr 03, 2013

  Leave it to a German army colonel who is a student at one of the U.S. war colleges to pose the question to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that many in those colleges would have love... Read More >>

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  Where the Budget Debate is Headed

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 2:30 PM on Mar 01, 2013

  Now that $85 billion in government budget cuts are taking effect, the real debate over the fiscal 2013 budget is just beginning. The government is running under a stop-gap spendin... Read More >>

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  Sequestration Becoming Preferred Option?

  Posted by Michael Bruno 11:21 AM on Jan 25, 2013

  I will parrot many other news stories when I say it, but it's true. Sequestration, once the "nuclear option"... the "doomsday scenario"... the worst possible way to rein in the fed... Read More >>

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  Buying Time

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 12:30 PM on Oct 02, 2012

  It’s not just Lockheed. A lot of government contractors are breathing a sigh of relief since the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon assured the defe... Read More >>

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  The S-Word

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 10:45 AM on Sep 21, 2012

  Rockwell Collins is formally calculating the impact that the congressionally-induced budget penalty known as sequestration will have on its bottom line next year – about... Read More >>

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  Gates Calls Sequestration 'Managerial Cowardice'

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 8:05 PM on Sep 17, 2012

  Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and retired Adm. Michael Mullen – who served as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – teamed up for a joint smackdown of seq... Read More >>

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  The Plot Thickens

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 12:32 PM on Sep 07, 2012

  The administration’s plan for detailing how it would implement a potential $1 trillion federal budget cut that could take place in January was due today. Delays of this kind... Read More >>

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  Where the Dollars Go

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 2:26 PM on Aug 23, 2012

  Just in time for the Republican National Convention, the Center for Security Policy has reissued a database of defense spending across congressional districts. Here’s a look... Read More >>

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  O&M May Take Budget Bullet for War Ops

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 1:51 PM on Aug 03, 2012

  While war funds are going to be subject to across-the-board government budget cuts that may take place early next year, the Pentagon will take pains to limit the impact on combat o... Read More >>

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