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No Wiggle Room in Schedule for Columbia-Class Submarine
Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said one of the reasons for the boat’s delay is because of the new electric propulsion system.
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Senate appropriators will not boost base defense topline
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the subcommittee's conservative mark is the first "pinprick in the bubble of over-inflated expectations for defense spending increases. The committee explicitly notes the need for a budget deal to amend the BCA caps before there can be more defense spending in their FY-18 funding guidance."
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Trump Orders ‘Whole of Government’ Assessment of Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow with Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a policy institute, told Defense Daily that the administration wants to increase the content of U.S. produced goods used by the defense industrial base and larger supply chain. There are concerns that many of the smaller suppliers, who are "always on the bubble," are so specialized around their defense products that they don't have commercial outlets to ease their way through periods of slow or non-existent defense orders.
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Cost of Ford-Class Carriers in Question
Experts said the Kennedy is not in danger of creating a Nunn-McCurdy breach that could jeopardize the program. Nevertheless, a cost overrun could still be problematic, noted Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Underwater Bloodhounds: DARPA’s Robot Subs
“Underwater data links are a relatively mature technology. The challenge here is to create one that can provide high bandwidth if the UUV needs to send data to the submarine and can also be hard for an enemy to detect,” said Bryan Clark, a retired submariner and former aide to the Chief of Naval Operations, how the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.
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Military officials to brief Trump on deployed forces, Afghanistan and ISIS
But that regional approach may be part of the delay, said Hal Brands, a professor at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. “Pakistanis can read the writing on the wall as well as anyone can,” Brands said. Without a commitment from the U.S. to maintain their presence in Afghanistan and keep India from increasing its influence there, Pakistan is “really not going to break in a fundamental way with their longstanding proxies there,” Brands said.