Analysis

Drive to Reform the DoD
  • July 28, 2013
  • This Week in Defense with Vago Muradian

A roundtable discussion with Robert O. Work, CEO, the Center for a New American Security; Jim Thomas, Vice President & Director of Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Clark Murdock, Senior Adviser Defense and National Security Group and Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues, Center for Strategic and International Studies; on the results and implications of the Pentagon’s recently completed Strategic Choices and Management Review and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s drive to reform DoD.

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Tactical Military Satellite Comms Need Hardening, Says CSBA Study
  • July 25, 2013
  • Fierce Government

Increasing military use of satellite communication for tactical operations means the Defense Department should create a new tier of protected space systems, says the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’s Todd Harrison.

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Study: New MILSAT Strategies Needed
  • July 25, 2013
  • UPI

A new study on military satellite communications says new strategies are needed to enhance capabilities in a time of budget restraints.

A Blockbuster Quarter for Defense Companies
  • July 25, 2013
  • Bloomberg TV

Center for Strategic and Budget Assessments Senior Fellow Todd Harrison discusses defense company earnings and the impact of the sequester with Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”

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Protecting Satcom Without Going Broke
  • July 25, 2013
  • Deep Dive Intelligence

The U.S. military faces a satellite communications conundrum. It’s convinced that in a hot war, China and other countries wouldn’t hesitate to throw everything they have at American satellites and the drone video and battle orders they carry. Everything means kinetic anti-satellite weapons like the one China launched at one of its own satellites in 2007; lasers or microwaves; cyber attacks on command and control stations; and old-fashioned jamming.

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AirSea Battle and America’s Maginot Line in Space
  • July 25, 2013
  • RealClearDefense

When strategic thinkers were trying to name what eventually would become AirSea Battle, there was discussion of naming it AirSeaSpace Battle. That makes for a very bad acronym, but in a way it’s probably more accurate.

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