CSBA in the News

At the same time the House passed a bill requiring civilian federal employees to contribute more to their pensions, lawmakers on the Armed Services Committee rejected the Obama administration’s proposals to increase the amount military retirees pay for their health care insurance/…/

For decades the Pentagon has invested billions of dollars in high-power directed-energy systems from lasers to microwave beams that have promised—but failed to deliver—game-changing capabilities for decades. Not surprisingly, directed-energy programs have prompted skepticism among many military leaders, and rightly so.

Will the U.S. Army soon start blasting incoming rockets and mortars with laser beams to protect its forward operating bases? Not quite, but according to people involved in industry and the Army, that day might not be that far off/…/

Underwater mines are lurking in critical waterways around the world. Low-tech but highly destructive, they can blow up ships, destroy oil and natural-gas pipelines and wipe out telephone and Internet cables.

As the House Armed Services Committee was finalizing its version of the 2013 defense budget Wednesday, a traditional input from the military’s top brass was noticeably missing this year.

The deployment of two U.S. geospatial analysts to Morocco to participate in a joint military exercise was the latest step in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s effort to carve an official role for its analysts in military operations.