Last month, the Defense Business Board released a package of recommendations that outlined several cost-cutting methods in which the department could free up money in its budgets. The set of proposals, which followed Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ call to tighten the defense spending budget, immediately went under attack by legislators who claimed that some [...]
Boeing (NYSE: BA) sent a proposal to the U.S. Air Force outlining a plan for the next-generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft. A version of Boeing’s 767 commercial airplane, the NewGen Tanker would replace 179 of the 400 aging KC-135 aircraft currently in the Air Force fleet. “We are honored to support our U.S. Air Force [...]
The Department of Defense is looking to tighten its belt on department spending, a decrease of about $100 billion over the next five fiscal years. Ashton B. Carter, under secretary of defense for acquisition, held a meeting yesterday with government contractors and lobbyists at the Pentagon to discuss how the industry could cut waste to [...]
The Department of Defense has released its Joint Operating Environment (JOE) report outlining the threats America will face through 2030 and the DoD’s mitigation strategy. The report lists a number of unconventional threats facing the United States – below is a brief summary. Unconventional Threats: Non-States Dramatic population growth in the developing world will see [...]
She helped put cybersecurity on the national radar. Now Melissa Hathaway is finding new ways to further the conversation. On Oct. 1, Hathaway joined Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a senior advisor to its cyber security initiative. Project Minerva, as the initiative is known, is a joint effort among [...]
The word’s out: The Department of Defense will insource 33,000 positions over the next few years. Of that number, 10,000 will replace contractors currently working in support of acquisition organizations like Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, and Marine Corps Systems Command. So, how can contractors best maintain relevance? ExecutiveBiz took that question [...]
What do two U.S. Air Force officers do upon retirement? If you’re Phil Soucy and Tom McMahan, you start your own company. Combining their vast experience in stealth technology, low observables — aircraft like the B-2 and F-117 — and systems engineering, the two launched Modern Technology Solutions, Inc., in 1993. Sixteen years later, the [...]
