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Lawmakers Pressing the Pentagon to Keep Funds in Battlefield Network

Specialty Executives — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:58:06 +0000

Seventy one members of the US House of Representatives are pressing the Defense Department not to transfer funding from a battlefield communications network to pay for more urgent needs. In a letter sent on May 10 to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, these lawmakers, the majority of them being Democrats, said that they support two of [...]

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Lockheed CEO – Claims Future is Bright, Despite Sequester

Specialty Executives — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:24:59 +0000

About a year ago, Robert J. Stevens, CEO and president of Lockheed Martin Corp. at the time, described the idea of draconian cuts to government spending as equivalent to “blunt force trauma” for the defense industry. Steven’s successor Marilyn Hewson spoke of Pentagon budget cuts in more favorable terms less than three months after sequestration [...]

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Army Still Supports Battlefield Network

Specialty Executives — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:05:07 +0000

Army officials are in support of further development of a Battlefield Communications Network even though they will be transferring funding from the program this year to pay for more urgent needs. The war fighter information network is a high-speed, high capacity communications network to be used in a war zone. Increment 2 which is the [...]

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Sequestration Affecting Army Programs

Specialty Executives — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:17:19 +0000

The sequester is creating problems for the Army. The Army/Marine Corp Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program’s testing schedule may be pushed back as far as four months by the end of this fiscal year. The top acquisition adviser to the secretary of the Army, Lieut. Gen. William Phillips told the Senate budget panel that [...]

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Budget Crunch Will Affect Army

Specialty Executives — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:28:52 +0000

The Army can continue to send troops to Afghanistan. However, the current budget crisis will prevent troops from being ready to deal with wars like those that could stem from the North Korea or Syria conflicts. This is the position that Gen. Ray Odierno, Army Chief of Staff is taking because of the budget constraints. [...]

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Army’s Second Radar System – Range Radar Replacement Program

Specialty Executives — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:49:55 +0000

Based on a General Dynamics press release on May 2, 2013, the Army presented General Dynamics C4 systems with a revised contract for the Range Radar Replacement Program (RRRP) to develop a new High/Medium Power Close-in Radar system. This is a mobile system that will provide unprecedented fidelity when tracking munitions and other targets in [...]

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