* Senator Kelly Ayotte [R-NH] tried but failed to scrap MEADS funding (alternatively for termination or development) with an amendment to the Senate’s continuing resolution/minibus HR 933 bill. The CR contains language at odds with the FY authorization law as...
* The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined 4 options [PDF] that should allow the Pentagon to remain within budget growth constraints set by the Budget Control Act once translated to constant dollars (i.e. once inflation has taken its toll). Their scenarios play...
* The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) research on trends in international arms transfers for 2012 puts China among the top 5 weapons exporters thanks to their sales to Pakistan. The top 5 importers, led by India, are all in Asia – which...
Take with a whole salt shaker The UK’s long-established International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) recently published a Military Balance 2013 report which makes some reasonable observations about the current state of global affairs, but unquestioning...
* As AeroVironment’s latest quarterly results showed, smaller contractors face much more volatility than primes in the current budget environment. * The US Senate will return to the HR 933 CR/mini-omnibus bill on Monday. Despite moaning about amendments from the...
