Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday laid out options for implementing the Pentagon’s share of broad spending cuts known as the sequester, including shrinking the Army from 490,000 under current targets to a force as small as 380,000—far below even its modern low point at the end of the Clinton administration/…/
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.
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.
A new study on military satellite communications says new strategies are needed to enhance capabilities in a time of budget restraints.
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.”
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.
1667 K Street NW Suite 900
Washington DC, 20006
202-331-7990
info@csbaonline.org
