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Hagel Outlines Bleak Future for Pentagon
Automatic budgets cuts will force the Pentagon to slash its ranks or trash its plans to buy new weapons, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Wednesday.
Pentagon Lays Out Ways to Slash Spending
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday laid out options for implementing the Pentagon's share of broad spending cuts known as the sequester, including shrinking the Army from 490,000 under current targets to a force as small as 380,000—far below even its modern low point at the end of the Clinton administration/.../
Drive to Reform the DoD
A roundtable discussion with Robert O. Work, CEO, the Center for a New American Security; Jim Thomas, Vice President & Director of Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Clark Murdock, Senior Adviser Defense and National Security Group and Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues, Center for Strategic and International Studies; on the results and implications of the Pentagon's recently completed Strategic Choices and Management Review and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's drive to reform DoD.
Tactical Military Satellite Comms Need Hardening, Says CSBA Study
Increasing military use of satellite communication for tactical operations means the Defense Department should create a new tier of protected space systems, says the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments's Todd Harrison.
A Blockbuster Quarter for Defense Companies
Center for Strategic and Budget Assessments Senior Fellow Todd Harrison discusses defense company earnings and the impact of the sequester with Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers."
Study: New MILSAT Strategies Needed
A new study on military satellite communications says new strategies are needed to enhance capabilities in a time of budget restraints.