Spilling her guts out * In response's to the Pentagon's latest assessment of Chinese military capability, China issued their usual credulity-stretching denials. Of course everybody spies on everybody, and China has been caught again and again with their hand in the...
No lack of friction points * The Pentagon released its annual report [PDF] to Congress on military developments in China. The excitable media is getting their panties in a bunch over the explicit denunciation of Chinese attacks that could help map "military...
* Operations and maintenance were the first to be hit by sequestration. Pentagon Comptroller Bob Dale told Defense News that the impact of sequestration on acquisition programs will be known soon, with some noticeable but not huge cuts in units ordered, and delays...
* Australia released its 2013 defence white paper [PDF] earlier today. The last one dates from 2009, and the government said it would publish updates at most 5 years apart because of the fast-changing environment in the Asia/Pacific region. They acknowledge the...
* The Pentagon may send a request for sequestration flexibility to the House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee next week, according to an anonymous House Republican aide quoted by Reuters. * CACI's 3rd fiscal quarter (ending on March 31) saw a revenue...
* US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey told reporters it would have been "literally impossible" for the Department of Defense to integrate sequestration in its FY14 budget request. After all, the Budget Control Act was signed by the President only 18...
* The US Defense Acquisition University posted a bunch of slideshows and videos dedicated to the implementation of Better Buying Power. Try this one [PPTX] for a start, which sensibly advocates basing programs on realistic requirements rather than "desirements." * On...
* The French government released a much-delayed White Paper [PDF, in French] to refresh France's defense outlook. What happened since the previous Livre Blanc published in 2008? The global financial crisis and the accelerated degradation of public finances in many...
* Raytheon's Q1 2013 sales were down by 1% Y/Y to %5.88B. The backlog lost 2.2% from a year ago, to $33.5B. Missile systems performed best (+8%) while network centric systems decreased by 7%. * Overall US prime contractors had an OK quarter, and they now acknowledge...