CSBA in the News

“The problem with a CR is normally when you go into a CR you don’t have the ability to do any new programs or new starts or add funding to an existing program,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a D.C.-based defense think tank. “You can continue the funding for a current program at the current level, which for a lot of programs is fine because … the amount of money you need maybe doesn’t change that much.”…

Rowden’s program-wide review of engineering procedures should go a long way towards reducing some of the sailor errors that have bedeviled the ships this year, said Bryan Clark, a former senior Navy aide who's now an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Obama's plans call for defense spending to increase by $23 billion in 2018, then plateau through fiscal 2026, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis. 

Bryan Clark, at the Centre For Strategic And Budgetary Assessments, told Bloomberg: “Having this kind of long-term inhabited station has not been attempted this deep, but it is certainly possible.

…Alternatively, the $39 million also might be needed for a time-critical purpose, suggested Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

The Marine Corps declared in July 2015 that the F-35B was ready to fly operations, but the plane still needs several improvements. Until it gets new software staring next year, it will be able to carry only AIM-120 missiles and certain laser- and GPS-guided bombs, said Jesse Sloman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington.