The Marine Corps and Army are likely to shrink their force structures in the coming years more than senior military leaders have publicly acknowledged, according to analysts and active and former service officials.
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A spokesman for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is defending the key role American generals play in U.S. relations with Pakistan amid calls for greater emphasis on diplomatic ties.
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A recent classified assessment of design options for a new class of multibillion-dollar nuclear ballistic missile submarines endorses the current plan to build 12 subs, each with 16 missile tubes, according to Navy officials.
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The next few
months will be "very challenging" for the Defense Department as it works to
develop its fiscal year 2014 long-term investment blueprint amid uncertainty
about its FY-13 budget submission to Congress, Pentagon acquisition chief Frank
Kendall said Wednesday.986 words
Rep. Frank
Wolf (R-VA) sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday to continue pressing
for the creation of a commission to study defense issues related to Afghanistan
and Pakistan. "I am baffled by your intransigence in this regard and would
venture that many of our men and women in uniform are as well," Wolf writes,
arguing his proposed panel "could be a collaborative effort involving a variety
of think tanks, among them the Center for the Study of the Presidency and
Congress, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the U.S.
Institute for Peace."99 words
Boeing and
the State Department are looking to provide D-Model CH-47 Chinooks to Libya,
according to a company official.489 words
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said Wednesday he would have had a "difficult" time providing Nunn-McCurdy recertification to the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program had he not also decided to take over milestone decision authority for the effort.
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The deputy
defense secretary has reestablished the Strategic Choices Group to help guide
key decisions about the military's fiscal year 2014 spending plan, forming --
for the second year in a row -- a high-level body to debate issues affecting
weapons programs, force structure and policy initiatives needed to implement
the Obama administration's Strategic Defense Guidance.751 words
A Defense Department initiative to counter an enemy's ability to interfere with satellite communications has learned valuable lessons from several tests this year, and the Pentagon is working on a plan to build on the effort once the test project concludes at the end of the month.
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In light of
findings that the Pentagon is underutilizing autonomous technology, the Defense
Department's research and engineering chief should work with military services
to develop a coordinated science and technology program that would strengthen
key enabling technologies, a new Defense Science Board report recommends.478 words
The Navy's
acquisition executive has granted a special waiver permitting Northrop Grumman
to commence low-rate production of the Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar -- the
G/ATOR, a $3.3 billion effort to replace five legacy radar systems and the
latest addition to the Pentagon's roster of big-ticket weapon programs.619 words
BAE Systems
has decided to forgo filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office
over the Army's recent Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract decision,
according to a company spokeswoman.235 words
Testing on a
synthetic fuel blend is on schedule to be completed in mid-September and
certified soon after, according to Air Force officials, providing the service
another alternative for fueling its aircraft.571 words
ST. LOUIS --
Industry leaders who provide wide-ranging sustainment and support services to
the Defense Department are facing an unusual challenge caused in part by budget
pressure, namely that DOD's plans to insource some maintenance and modification
work to its depots in the coming years could limit the amount of work available
to contractors, according to senior Boeing officials.1178 words
Pennsylvania's
state auditor plans to push the Air Force for the data he needs to complete a
full cost-benefit analysis of Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve
Station, PA, and intends to communicate with the service in the near future.689 words
Four
autonomous, car-sized cargo robots sent to Afghanistan for testing performed
well when embedded with a dismounted infantry battalion, according to a Maneuver
Center of Excellence official involved with the assessment.774 words
The Army is
expecting greater roles for the Marine Corps, the Air Force and international
partners in future network integration evaluation events as officials prepare
for the first-ever NIE participation of a weapon system located hundreds of
miles away, according to an Army official.592 words
The Navy is
completing a reduction of total ownership cost study to scale back the
operational support cost for Virginia-class submarines, and the service expects
it will wrap up before a request for proposals for the Block IV contract is
released, according to a service official.729 words
A roadmap for
the Marine Corps' unmanned ground vehicle development is awaiting senior-level
review and signature but is already beginning to shape work at the Marine Corps
Warfighting Lab and elsewhere in the service, the roadmap's author said last
week.627 words
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