The Air Force is eying radar improvements for its B-1 and B-52 bomber fleets that could allow them to better conduct wide-area maritime surveillance and target enemy surface ships in support of the Navy.
February 12, 2014 House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) has written a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel criticizing the trajectory of past Quadrennial Defense Reviews just as the Pentagon is finishing up its latest iteration.
There’s no shortage of think tanks in Washington. One of their favorite topics is the Defense Department — what it should do, and how much it should spend on what.
Teams of experts at four Washington think tanks, when unveiling “alternatives” to the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2015 budget and Quadrennial Defense Review on Wednesday, called for major cuts to the Army while increasing investments in the Air Force.
The Pentagon has dropped a plan to retire one of its nuclear-powered aircraft carriers after the White House intervened to head off a brewing political fight.
It’s hard to find consensus on most anything in Washington D.C., but four national security-focused think tanks managed to forge something of a rough outline for the future of defense spending.
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