How will inflation impact military budgets, capabilities? It’s not straight-forward…
Personnel costs accounted for 38% of the Army’s fiscal year 2022 budget request, compared with 27% for the Navy and 21% for the Air Force, […]
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Lessons from scientific management of US Army arsenals
It is possible to argue that theses savings in material costs were a large extent mere matters of bookkeeping. They were reductions only in a […]
Aircraft sustainment woes — And is the Air Force paying for Navy F-35 costs?
We found that of the 46 individual fixed- and rotary-wing types of aircraft we examined, only three met the service-established mission capable goal [80 percent] […]
Marc Andreessen says it’s time to build. But what’s standing in the way?
Medical equipment and financial conduits involve no rocket science whatsoever. At least therapies and vaccines are hard! Making masks and transferring money are not hard. […]
Updated defense costing policy released
On March 13 2020, the new DoD Instruction 5000.73 was released as part of the 5000.02 rewrite for Adaptive Acquisition Framework. It provides new guidance […]
Rumbles on the Columbia-class submarine
Current Navy plans call for construction on the first of 12 Columbia-class nuclear-armed submarines to begin in 2021, with an overall price tag of $128 billion. But […]
The Exchange reacts to itself
The factors that determine activity on the Exchange are innumerable, with events, current or expected, often bearing no apparent relation to price variation. Beside the […]