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Laser On A Truck: Army’s Role In Offset Strategy
Where do ground forces fit in the Pentagon’s new offset strategy? The answer may be an intriguing mix of old-fashioned armored forces, mobile missile launchers, and lasers on trucks.
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CSBA Offers ‘Offset Strategy’ in Face of U.S. Military Capacity, Capability Gaps
A well-regarded national security think tank on Dec. 10 presented its version of an “offset strategy” to counter the growing threats to U.S. power-projection capabilities, which calls for increased investments in longer-range and stealthy strike and reconnaissance platforms, unmanned systems and lower-cost defense weapons such as the electromagnetic railgun and lasers.
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X-47B May Begin Automated Aerial Refueling Demonstrations Next Year
The Navy’s carrier-based unmanned aircraft demonstrator is undergoing preparations for automated aerial refueling testing next year, including a possible flight demonstration using the aircraft itself, said officials from the service and X-47B manufacturer Northrop Grumman.
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Fiscal 2016 Base Budget Request Will Be $36B Over Spending Caps
The White House is developing a fiscal 2016 defense budget that would align with its long-planned $535 billion top line, ensuring that the administration would ignore the congressionally mandated budget caps put in place in 2011, according to a source with knowledge of the deliberations.
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Big Challenges Loom for Ashton Carter at Defense
The nomination of Ashton B. Carter to be secretary of defense is expected to sail through the Senate, but the former Harvard scholar and physicist will face powerful headwinds finding consensus on a host of security challenges — from military operations to pending budget cuts that could upend the military’s future plans.
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Defense Bill Compromise Means More Airmen, Bigger Fleet
The compromise defense authorization bill announced this week includes an additional $331.1 million and 2,000 more airmen than the Air Force initially had proposed in the fiscal 2015 budget request to account for additional personnel needed to keep A-10s flying.