Impacts of the Indian Fighter Competition
05/16/2011
By Dr. Robbin Laird 05/16/2011 There is a shift in the tectonic plates going on and the Washington crowd is missing in action.
Accenture: Offshore Outsourcing Has Not Worked
05/16/2011
By Richard McCormack 05/16/2011 - The strategy embraced over the past decade by U.S. manufacturing companies to shift production to countries with cheap labor may no longer be appropriate, according to a consulting firm that has been a big promoter of offshore outsourcing.
The Euro Crisis Once Again
05/14/2011
By Dr. Harald Malmgren 05/14/2011 The Euro crisis has boiled up once again. What will happen next?
Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC) : Shaping Global Con-Ops
05/11/2011
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, nearly 70 members of the 615th Contingency Response Wing deployed to the Dominican Republic in support of Operation Unified Response (Photo Credit: Contingency Response Wing, USAF) TACC: Shaping Global Con-Ops The Role of the Global Mobility Enterprise…
Global Airlift, Tanking and Medevac Missions and the TACC
05/11/2011
A Round Table With TACC Experts 05/11/2011 - The planning and operations directed by the command are highly collaborative. Most of the key elements for shaping the planning and operation C2 functions are located on the operations floor, which creates a highly collaborative enterprise in order for the command to…
Coping with Counterfeit Electronics in Defense Supply Chain
05/08/2011
05/08/2011 Accounting for and dealing with counterfeit electronics in the supply chain is a growing problem. Sweeping it under the rug won't work.
Russia’s ROKAF Connection
05/06/2011
By Richard Weitz 05/05/2011 - In addition to European defense companies, Russia also has sold the ROK many weapons and will likely continue to do so. In addition to oil and gas, weapons represent one of the few items that South Korea can logically purchase to help balance its own…
Re-visiting the Concept of a Counter-Insurgency Aircraft
05/06/2011
05/05/2011 This interview lays out the case for a Counter-Insurgency Aircraft and develops several interesting points with regard to why the COIN manned asset in many cases is preferable to UAVs.