
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is “trying to break that tight bond between” the “iron triangle of Congress and industry and the bureaucracy in” the Pentagon — which the Center highlighted in its story “The Murtha Method” — according to a Defense Department press secretary. The spokesman was reacting to a question about the Center’s investigation at yesterday’s press briefing. Read more
Three Air Force majors with a moniker of “Team Rogue” are shaking up the never-ending debate over Pentagon weapons procurement by advocating what they call F.I.S.T., for fast, inexpensive, simple and tiny weapons programs. But implementing the F.I.S.T. concept, argues one of the majors, will require courage. Read more
Faced with the potential of massive job losses and under heavy lobbying pressure earlier this year, the powerful House Armed Services Committee fired a shot across the bow of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' budget decision to shutter one of the nation's most costly fighter jet programs. In a narrow 31-30 vote on Wednesday, the committee authorized spending for 12 new F-22 Raptors. These new planes, if approved by additional congressional panels, would keep the program alive and move it above the 187-plane limit Gates announced in April. Read more

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