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Defense Budget Analyst Sees Tall Order for Gridlocked Congress
A new report from a Washington think tank highlights current and future challenges facing defense spending, while the GOP-dominated Congress is expected to continue a bitter budget battle with Democrats and the White House when lawmakers return from summer recess next month.
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Bow Wave Time Bomb: B-21, Ohio Replacement Costs Likely To Grow
“What I’m concerned about is having a modernization bottleneck, where you end up with cost growth in one program or several… which is historically very likely… squeezing other programs (with) cascading implications,” said Katherine Blakely. Blakeley and her fellow Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments scholar Jacob Cohn were briefing me and another reporter on their latest study, due out tomorrow...
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F-35B Stealth Fighter: How the US Marine Corps Could Dominate the Sky
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments with close ties to the Navy, said that without the F-35C, the service knows it is lacking the ability to fight inside heavily defended airspace. “They just have a challenge in countering IADS, particularly since the Navy doesn't yet have a 5th generation aircraft and their aircraft will still lack the ability to operate from the range where the carrier can be survivable in the early phases of a conflict,” Clark said.
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Services Submit POM-18 for Internal Review
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said "these POMs and the FY-18 budget build are a draft for the next administration, but they have to be a good draft. I expect DOD to draft a baseline consensus budget, and laying out specific additional options and areas for the administration's decisions."
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This Bama Grad May Be the Closest Thing to a Real-Life Jack Bauer
[Michael] Vickers has seen about as much covert action as Jack Bauer from Fox’s hit show 24. But Vickers has also been able to do something Bauer’s anti-authority streak never quite allowed to happen: Rise to the highest levels of the U.S. counterterrorism leadership structure.
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Defense Experts Discuss Presidential Candidates’ National Security Views
The United States is on the cusp of a major debate in both political parties over the country’s role in the world, but so far the presidential candidates have not made clear their own priorities in a time when defense spending is unlikely to grow, a panel of national security experts agreed Tuesday. Jim Thomas, a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, said today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that “there’s always going to be hard limits as to how far [an incoming president] can go” in changing national security strategy – debt payments, rising entitlement costs, treaty constraints, a balky Congress and evolving international challenges.