Unstaffed DoD * Arnold Punaro, a retired USMC Maj. General and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)'s new chairman, made a list of vacant senior civilian positions at the Department of Defense, and it's a pretty long one. Either these roles are needed,...
Flip sides of the COIN * Just hours after US Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a deal had been reached, Afghan President Hamid Karzai postponed the signing of a security agreement with the US until after next April's elections. American officials were still...
Performance-Based Logistics has become a way of life in Britain's military, and has also been adopted for some programs in the USA, Canada, France, and other countries. Now, a $5.8 billion contract will add the UAE to that list, and support every aircraft and...
Contractors Face New Regulatory Obligations * Effective since last Monday, a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) amendment applies to all new contracts that use or generate technical information and spells out new responsibilies for contractors...
Pentagon: Creative Accounting; Commodity Buying; Program Crunch; Reform Pilgrimage * DoD is infamous for being unable to pass an audit, a situation they're supposed to remedy by 2017, though whether they will meet that deadline is doubtful. So how do they balance...
Do Buy... Airliners * Day 1 of the Dubai airshow broke records yesterday in the airliner world, but on the military side the UAE still hasn't decided which jets to acquire, despite hands-on business development help from UK Prime Minister David Cameron. Defense...
LWPS(click to view full) You can live for weeks without food. A week without water will leave you dead, especially if you're exerting yourself in unfriendly conditions. More bad news: water is heavy to carry, which means it takes a lot of resources to transport. There...
Marder 1A3(click to view full) In August 2012, reports emerged that Indonesia had made a deal with Germany to buy heavy tanks and infantry carriers, after the Dutch had demurred. The Indonesian Army has a long record of human rights abuses, which sparked considerable...
FAC Kfir C7(click to view larger) Years of unswerving pressure from the Colombian army wore down the narco-terrorist FARC. Much of that pressure was led by the popular (former) President Uribe, who ruled out a bid for constitutional amendments and an attempt at a 3rd...