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Interview with Sean O’Keefe, CEO of EADS North America

Paris: Any time one American defense company buys another it can trigger government review for a host of reasons, from antitrust to security concerns. When an American company financed by a foreign entity tries to buy another American company it triggers review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It is…

Biden Transition: We Can’t Afford Time To Humor Trump

Biden Transition: We Can’t Afford Time To Humor Trump
Biden Transition: We Can’t Afford Time To Humor Trump

The transition from one president to another is not a formality, nor is it inconsequential. The 911 Commission found that the transition from President Clinton to President Bush contributed to the senior leadership missing the clues that al Qaeda planned to attack America. In September, the co-chairmen of the 911 Commission wrote this: “To be…

No to Trump: Former VCJCS Selva, 488 Other Former Top NatSec Leaders

No to Trump: Former VCJCS Selva, 488 Other Former Top NatSec Leaders
No to Trump: Former VCJCS Selva, 488 Other Former Top NatSec Leaders

Ten days ago the Trump campaign released a letter signed by 235 former military officers, including eight four-star general officers.

Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?

Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?
Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?

WASHINGTON: Sure, American industry can build the 355-ship fleet both Trump and the admirals want, three former Navy Secretaries said today. We can even build it a lot faster than most experts expect, but there are a lot of ifs. If we start using small shipyards that currently don’t build warships. If we streamline procurement, and, of…

Bilden Would Be Least Experienced Navy Secretary Since 1980

Bilden Would Be Least Experienced Navy Secretary Since 1980
Bilden Would Be Least Experienced Navy Secretary Since 1980

CORRECTED: Bilden is least experienced, not 2nd to last WASHINGTON: Trump’s pick for Navy Secretary, Philip Bilden, has less relevant experience than any of his predecessors since 1980, Breaking Defense has found. To be precise, every Navy Secretary for 36 years has had significant prior experience in either government or the defense industry or both: Bilden…

EADS NA CEO Who Led Tanker Campaign Replaced

WASHINGTON: Sean O’Keefe, who led the bold but ultimately unsuccessful campaign by EADS North America to win the contract to build a new airborne tanker for the United States, is stepping down from his post as CEO and chairman of the American portion of the company now known as Airbus Group Inc. But O’Keefe is…

Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?

Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?
Can Dems, Pro-Defense GOP & Tea Party Come Together At Reagan’s Tomb?

Less than three weeks from today, a four-star-studded convoy of Obama administration appointees will head west to the modern GOP’s most hallowed ground, the Ronald Reagan Library – and burial site – in Simi Valley, Calif. The one-day conference is a rare attempt to build a national consensus on defense both between the parties and,…

EADS Urges Air Force’s Fanning To Buy Lakota Helos For Nuke Mission

EADS Urges Air Force’s Fanning To Buy Lakota Helos For Nuke Mission
EADS Urges Air Force’s Fanning To Buy Lakota Helos For Nuke Mission

  AFA Conference: The chairman and CEO of EADS North America is pressing the case of his company’s Lakota helicopters for the Air Force mission of protecting nuclear missile sites. In a letter hand-delivered today Fanning_Eric USAF UH72A 09.11.13 to Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning, Sean O’Keefe argued that the Air Force’s plan to refit…

The Gump Guide to Sequestration: ‘Dumbest Fiscal Management Policy Ever’

The House of Representatives will vote on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act later this week. Sequestration will be the giant hiding behind the door as the House Armed Services Committee has marked its bill to the Obama budget request, which means that the effects of sequestration are ignored by the bill (as they are…

EADS To Army: Bring On Armed Aerial Scout Competition

CORRECTED Oct. 19, 2012, 9:30 a.m. to clarify imprecise information provided during the EADS press briefing. WASHINGTON: The U.S. arm of European aerospace and defense giant EADS urged the Army on Thursday to buy new armed scout helicopters instead of upgrading its aging OH-58D Kiowa Warriors — and challenged competitors to top the performance two…

CEOs in Crossfire At Sequestration Hearing

CAPITOL HILL: Lockheed Martin CEO Bob Stevens and his fellow defense industry executives struggled to stay on their “sequestration kills jobs” message while they dodged repeated questions from Democrats about whether revenue increases were needed to avert the sequester. An exasperated Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, concluded the…

Next Week, A Storm of Sound & Fury On Sequestration

WASHINGTON: As jetlagged aerospace executives and defense reporters head home from a frankly discouraging Farnborough Air Show, Washington is gearing up for storm of stop-sequestration events this coming week. What it will actually accomplish is an open question. Sequestration has hardly been a quiet topic this past week, with a pointed, partisan, and unproductive exchange…

DoD Sequestration Looms And Few Plans Are Afoot To Avert Or Cope

WASHINGTON: It may be because Congress is out of town. Or it may be that few in the defense enterprise have any answers to the looming automatic cuts of $500 billion that will come due on Jan. 3, 2013. I vote for the latter. But whatever the reasons, a panel of éminences grises sat down…

Kiowa Replacement Plan Spawns More Questions Than Answers

COLUMBUS, MISS: You can’t blame industry for being a bit wary about the Army’s third attempt to get its Kiowa replacement program off the ground. First there was the Comanche. Then the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter. Now there’s the Armed Aerial Scout. But this time, competitors know how high the stakes are for the Army on…

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