Army Generals Detail Huge Sequestration Impacts On Retention, Morale
FORT LAUDERDALE: When war comes down to boots on the ground, the Army’s greatest asset is its people. But in fiscal terms people are also its greatest liability. And now some procedural peculiarities...
View ArticleMilitary Can Close Bases WITHOUT Congress’s OK: ‘Take Your Chances,’ Says...
AUSA WINTER, HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: Fear is in the air. “The commercial base will disappear,” Boeing executive James Moran believes. It’s not just sequestration, the retired brigadier general said this...
View ArticleAWA Is NOT NIE: Army Tries To Buy Weapons That Work
UPDATED 10:55 with Deputy Assistant Secretary Miller comments HUNTSVILLE, ALA: After 20 years of costly and cancelled programs, the US Army wants to break its weapons-buying system wide open. This...
View ArticleShyu Mum On More Acquisition Powers For Odierno
HUNTSVILLE, ALA: There seems to be little support for Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno‘s push for the four service chiefs to get greater authority over procurement — not even from the Army’s civilian...
View ArticleFull-Year CR Will Hurt 400 Army Programs; Helos Hit Hard: Shyu & Via
AUSA: If Congress can’t pass proper spending bills for 2016, it will hurt more than 400 Army programs and damage combat readiness, two senior officials said here today. “I have a binder yea-thick of...
View ArticleUS Army Plans Stockpiles in Vietnam, Cambodia: Hello China
HUNTSVILLE, ALA: The Army plans to stockpile equipment in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Pacific countries yet unnamed that will allow US forces to deploy there more rapidly, because key supplies and...
View ArticleShould US Unleash War Robots? Frank Kendall Vs. Bob Work, Army
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.: The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, Frank Kendall, warned today that the US might hobble itself in future warfare by insisting on human control of thinking weapons if our adversaries...
View ArticleArmy Struggles To Open Up To Industry
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.: The next time the Army holds a conference on how to improve its relations with industry, it should actually let industry into the most important session, Maj. Gen. Bo Dyess told his...
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