DoD’s first industrial strategy seeks to bolster weapons production ‘speed and scale’

DoD’s first industrial strategy seeks to bolster weapons production ‘speed and scale’
DoD’s first industrial strategy seeks to bolster weapons production ‘speed and scale’

“The current and future strategic environment requires immediate, comprehensive, and decisive action in strengthening and modernizing our defense industrial base ecosystem to ensure the security of the United States and our allies and partners. As this strategy makes clear, we must act now,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks writes in a forward to the new National Defense Industrial Strategy. 

Cut the Pentagon’s Civilian Workforce

Cut the Pentagon’s Civilian Workforce
Cut the Pentagon’s Civilian Workforce

The Pentagon’s civilian workforce is too big and has been virtually untouched since defense budgets started falling four years ago. It’s grown so much, in fact, that the Air Force’s civilian workforce is just 1,400 people shy of matching the entire Air Force National Guard and Reserve combined. It’s time to shrink the Defense Department’s…

Bipartisan Defense Experts Urge Congress, Sec Def Hagel To Close Bases, Change DoD Pay

UPDATED THROUGHOUT WITH COMMENTS FROM CAPITOL HILL EVENT CAPITOL HILL: In an extraordinary letter to defense lawmakers and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, experts from nine Washington think tanks on the left and the right call for fundamental fixes to the defense budgets that, left undone, “threaten the health and long-term viability of America’s volunteer military.” The…