Senate Delays Consideration of Defense Trade Pacts With U.K., Australia
DefenseAlert, Sept. 19, 2008 -- Congress will not act this year on a pair of treaties that aim to facilitate defense deals and technology transfers with two of the United States' closest allies, dashing the Bush administration's hopes that the Senate would ratify the landmark defense trade pacts with the United Kingdom and Australia during the current legislative session.
DOCUMENT: Senators' Letter to Rice
Pentagon Shuffles MRAP Funding to Provide More for Upgrades
DefenseAlert, Sept. 19, 2008 -- The Pentagon is reprogramming unused Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle procurement and operations and maintenance funding to resource upgrades on existing vehicles.
DOCUMENT: DOD Reprogramming on MRAP
Guarantees Sought on Separation of Acquisition Leaders' Roles
Defense Budget Alert
- DOD Seeks Reversal of $1.8 Billion in FY-09 Weapons Cuts, Objectionable Legislation
Sept. 17, 2008 -- The Pentagon is seeking a repeal of $1.8 billion in funding cuts imposed on key major weapon systems programs and a handful of policy initiatives in the House and Senate fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bills, including some legislative proposals the White House has said will draw a veto if not removed from the final bill.
C4ISR Watch
- Report: Next Administration Needs to Figure Out Space Priorities Soon
Sept. 19, 2008 -- In the wake of last year's Chinese anti-satellite test and the more recent U.S. shoot-down of a defective intelligence satellite, the next administration needs to address as soon as possible what kind of international space regime best suits its interests, according to a new Council on Foreign Relations report.
Homeland Defense Watch
- THAAD Test Aborted Due to Target Problem; Japan Scores PAC-3 Hit
Sept. 18, 2008 -- A flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system was canceled due to an apparent malfunction with the target missile shortly after launch, the Missile Defense Agency said today, one day after the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile program scored a successful hit in a test run by Japanese forces.
- Report: Next Administration Needs to Figure Out Space Priorities Soon
- DOD Decries Proposed Cuts to C2, GPS, Hypersonics Research Programs
- THAAD Test Aborted Due to Target Problem; Japan Scores PAC-3 Hit
- Lockheed Martin Delivers First Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS-1), to Navy
- DOD Seeks to Restore Cuts to Key Air Force Programs in FY-09 Authorization Bill
- Lockheed, Raytheon-Boeing Team Awarded JAGM Development Contracts
- DOD Seeks Reversal of $1.8 Billion in FY-09 Weapons Cuts, Objectionable Legislation
- Officials Ponder Impact of 'Adaptive Planning' on DOD Operations
- DOD Protests FCS Funding Cuts, Restrictions in House Bill
- Raytheon Wins Deal to Work on Air-Launched Boost-Phase Missile (Updated)
more- DOD Reprogramming on Future Combat System Reprogramming
In a July 29, 2008, reprogramming action, the Defense Department realigns Future Combat System funding to pay for small unmanned ground vehicles as well as provides funding for the procurement of weapons and other tracked combat vehicles. - DOD Memo on Reinforcing the Separation of Duties of Senior Leaders
The Sept. 17, 2008, memo signed by Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy Director Shay Assad discusses the need to reinforce the separation of duties among senior leaders in the Defense Department to eliminate areas of vulnerability in the defense contracting system. - Army Memo on Implementing a Life Cycle Management Framework
The Sept. 8, 2008, memo signed by acting Army acquisition chief Dean Popps discusses the implementation of a Life Cycle Management framework. - Army Memo on the Test and Evaluation Master Plan Approval Process
The Sept. 2, 2008, memo outlines ways for the Army to enhance the Test and Evaluation Master Plan approval standard process. - Senate 9/17/2008 Floor Debate on the FY-09 Defense Authorization Bill
On Sept. 17, 2008, senators debated and passed the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill.
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Army POM Cuts Would Cancel Recently Signed Abrams Contract
Inside the Army, Sept. 22, 2008 -- The Army's planned cuts to its Abrams tank upgrade program would likely result in the cancellation of a multiyear tank contract signed early this year, leaving the service with a large termination bill, sources tell Inside the Army.
Navy, Marine Corps to Study Naval Surface Fires Requirement Gaps
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