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Legislators are fighting over every single dollar in this year’s defense budget, although saving billions could be as simple as changing a few words in a contracting statute. And believe it — or not — the Pentagon is the good guy in this battle. The Defense Department is circulating a proposal on Capitol Hill that [...]
…that’s how much the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Research and Development Enterprise Chemical and Biological Technologies Directorate wants to pay a company over the next five years on a sole-source, no-bid contract for “strategic communications and event support.” The money will pay for “symposiums, conferences, training sessions, senior leadership forums, seminars and technical exchange [...]
Nice Washington Post story about how the U.S. is training Ugandan soldiers (along with some from Burundi, Sierra Leone and Djibouti) in Uganda on how to do battle with Islamic extremists in Somalia – namely the al-Shabaab group affiliated with Al-Qaida. Both the fear and the hope are encapsulated in a nifty little paragraph: Ever since [...]
…that’s how many different versions of the tried-and-true F-16 jet fighter have been built, former F-16 builder, Navy secretary and No. 2 Pentagon civilian Gordon England says. In a column in the latest issue of Defense News, he contends the Pentagon’s argument that there is too much concurrency – developing and building a weapon system [...]
spend for each of the 42 F-35s jet fighters it is planning on buying. That’s a quarter-billion dollars for a single fighter plane. The U.S. Air Force, Marines and Navy are planning on buying 2,457 of the planes at $161 million each, for a total of $396 billion, according to the Pentagon’s latest Selected Acquisition [...]
Arthur Herman is one of those scholars who grips the past and just won’t let go, which is lucky for those of us stuck in the present. In these days where attention spans are collapsing into overflowing rivers of data, every once in awhile you need a historian to point out what’s important. Herman’s new [...]
…otherwise know as the Army’s Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise. Or, as the Army says: The Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise (EAGLE) program will be used to procure logistics services requirements, primarily Material Maintenance Services, Retail/Wholesale Supply Services and Transportation Support Services in support of Directorates of Logistics (DOL) installations; Army Prepostioned Stocks (APS); Theater Provided [...]
The Army buys lots of things for the troops, but this is one we haven’t seen before. Behavioral artwork? What’s especially surprising is that Thursday’s announcement was simply a declaration that the contracting office at Fort Gordon, Ga., intends to award a contract for an unspecified amount to “Perspective, LLC” of Holladay, Utah. There is, [...]
…the number of “kills” scored in the 64 U.S. missile-defense tests conducted over the past decade — a success rate of 80% — according to Army Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency.
