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Defense Contractors Go on Offense

  • December 7, 2015
  • Jacqueline Klimas
  • Washington Examiner

Analysts are also careful to point out that what many are calling extra money still represents a cut from the president's request for the Pentagon. Jacob Cohn, a senior analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said an increased budget does not mean more procurement and that modernization is more likely to be truncated than expanded…

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CSBA Welcomes New President

  • December 4, 2015

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken will be joining the team in March 2016 as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.

Analysis

Winning the Airwaves: Sustaining America’s Advantage in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • December 4, 2015
  • Bryan Clark and Mark Gunzinger
  • The National Interest

The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is one of the most critical domains in modern warfare. While militaries have long used it to communicate, keep track of friendly forces and find and target enemies, emerging technological advances now promise to dramatically change how they will use the EMS in the future. In the same way that smartphones and the Internet are redefining how the world shares, shops, learns and works, new sensors and networking technologies will enable militaries to gain significant new advantages over competitors that fail to keep pace.

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