CSBA in the News

Only one issue is on the minds of defense leaders and industry executives these days: Looming budget cuts. But widespread panic over the coming spending reductions — known as sequestration — could be turned into an opportunity to tackle the obvious fat in the Pentagon’s budget, analysts suggest/…/

Rather than try to pass appropriations bills for fiscal 2013, U.S. congressional leaders have decided instead to pass a six-month-long stopgap spending measure that would keep funding at 2012 levels until the end of March/…/

Military members value some types of compensation more than the cost to provide it and conversely undervalue others, finds the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in a study the center says could form the basis for intelligent decisions on reforming military compensation.

President Barack Obama will protect all accounts used to pay for military personnel from deep spending cuts that would kick in Jan. 2 if lawmakers fail to pass a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction measure, placing a bulls eye on civilian employees and weapon programs/…/

The White House Office of Management and Budget informed Congress today that it will exempt from potential automatic budget cuts billions of dollars earmarked for military pay and benefits.

Senior serving officers in any country’s armed forces tend to shun public controversy. But Admiral Jonathan Greenert, America’s chief of naval operations, has stoked it in the latest issue of a specialist journal. His article appeared to question the value of the stealth technologies that underpin the biggest weapons project in history, the vast and costly F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme/…/