Rupert Herbert-Burns, a senior analyst with the Danish firm "Risk Intelligence", provides an assessment of the challenges of securing the Suez Canal in the evolving maritime security environment...
A key problem to a person who has been a career acquisition professional is simply the future of the acquisition work force and the challenges facing the Administration as they seek to re-set that work force. When I look at the future, I have to go back to the past...
Robert Dudney, Editor in Chief of Air Force Magazine, comments on the “Real B-2 Acquisition Mistakes” and the lessons one should apply when thinking about the acquisition of the next-generation bomber.
It has gotten more difficult for university researchers to conduct high-risk research in the United States. (...) The average age of a researcher receiving his or her first grant from the National Institutes of Health rose to 42.6 in 2007. This is not good for young university researchers ...
Italy is all about Slow Aerospace. Which is a good thing. I think. Most of the aero world, particularly the Anglo-US aero world, is focused on cost savings, return on investment, and industry rationalization. Call it Fast Aerospace...
Our sources in Tokyo tell us that the new Japanese government is rethinking in significant ways their relationship with the United States which might well include the SM-3.
Dick Kugler has recently published an interesting examination of the tough question of how one would deter a nuclear-armed Iran. He examines this from the standpoint of how the U.S. could spearhead an extended deterrent regime to deal with the emergence of a new nuclear power in the Middle East.
"Secretary of the Air Force Donley together with the Air Force Chief of Staff Schwartz wrote an oped over this past summer wanting to put the contentious F-22 debate behind them. With their then recent installation and the heated debate on 'next war itis'’ that surrounded their predecessors departure one…
