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![Fear, Changing Threats Drive SCMR, OpPlans Rewrite; Cut Readiness Dough, Analysts Say](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/08/scmranalysis-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: Turmoil, fear and a certain resolute grimness marked this week at the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. The military scrambled to cope with a range of new threats as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the Pentagon leadership begin to grapple with the grim future posed by the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration. Put it all…
By Colin Clark![Hagel Outlines Bold, Painful Cuts to Army, Carriers, Pay, Benefits To Cope With Sequester](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/04/chuck-hagel-defense-secretary-130401-d-ni589-149e-225x150.jpg)
PENTAGON: In a grim presentation before the press corps, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined deep cuts to the Army, Air Force and Navy he may have to make to cope with the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration. Reaction was swift on Capitol HIll and the think tanks that inform so much of what senior…
By Colin ClarkMulti-Domain Operations: Global C2 and Joint Operations
![F-35 Prices Drop 8 Percent In $7 Billion Deal](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/04/f11-71897-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon and F-35 maker Lockheed Martin have agreed on the terms of a deal for the Defense Department to buy two lots of F-35s for $7 billion. The big question now is the average price per plane for each tranche (LRIP 6 and 7). While we’ve confirmed with two sources that the deal…
By Colin Clark![China Will Soon Face Arc Of US F-35s, Other Fighters, Bombers](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/05/F35C_dualrefuel-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: The American who leads the leading edge of our sword in the Pacific — the Air Force — worries that China‘s sometimes “aggressive approach” in using its fighters, bombers and ships to signal its territorial claims across the Pacific creates “the potential” for a serious incident in the region. But Air Force Gen. Herb…
By Colin Clark![Pay Raise, Sequester Cut Will Eat Army Budget, GCV At Risk: Gen. Odierno](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/07/Eaglen-Odierno-re-Army-@-AEI-225x150.jpg)
By voting to raise troops’ pay at almost twice the rate the Pentagon has requested, the House of Representatives risks suffocating other defense priorities, from combat training to much-needed weapons programs like the Army’s flagship Ground Combat Vehicle, Chief of the Staff of the Army Gen. Ray Odierno said today. “We made a recommendation this…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Forward Observer: Technologies for 21st Century Security
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![Untold Tale Behind USS Guardian Reef Grounding: NGA’s Map Was Wrong By 8 Miles](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/07/ussguardiangrounding1-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: The January grounding of the minesweeper USS Guardian in a Philippine coral reef was caused in large part by a National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) map that was, quite simply, wrong by eight nautical miles, Breaking Defense has learned. “It really was just a terrible fluke that caused the error,” NGA spokeswoman Christine Phillips said…
By Colin ClarkWe don’t do this very often, mostly because it’s just so declasse to note the difficulty one’s competitors may have in matching one’s content, but today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on the grim and crucial conflict between the two contracts America has with its troops leaves us almost too satisfied to speak. The op-ed, by…
By Colin Clark![LCS Kerfuffle: Navy, GAO May Be In ‘Violent Agreement’ After All](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/05/Littoral-Combat-Ship-LCS-1-Freedom-enters-Singapore-harbor-130418-N-YU572-048-225x150.jpg)
CAPITOL HILL: Bark, it turns out, does not necessarily correlate with bite. The Government Accountability Office is infamous for its often scathing reviews of Pentagon programs, and its latest report on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship — one of GAO’s favorite targets — says Congress should “pause” LCS procurement until key systems are more adequately tested. But,…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![LCS: GAO Says ‘Whoa,’ But It May Be Too Late, Cost Too Much To Slow](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/01/lcs-1-and-lcs-2-web120502-n-zz999-009-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program is moving so fast it may be too late to hit the brakes without LCS going entirely and expensively off the rails. In a 72-page report to Congress that will be publicly released this morning, the Government Accountability Office makes a strong case that the Navy is buying…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.WASHINGTON: The recently retired senior admiral of the Navy, Adm. Gary Roughead, says the Obama administration must do much more across the government to ensure the Pacific pivot works and is well directed, joining his voice to four prominent House lawmakers. I asked Roughead after today’s hearing on the Pacific “rebalance” if he knew about…
By Colin Clark
The story of what two Marine aviators did to be the first V-22 Osprey pilots awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses is simple, elegant, and and tactically telling. The double-DFC incident underscores how the Marines are using the unique tilt-rotor aircraft — which can take off and land like a helicopter, then fly long distances at high…
By Robbin Laird