HASC Dems Put DoD On Notice: No Free Pass For F-35

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HASC Dems Put DoD On Notice: No Free Pass For F-35 "If this program continues to fail … we may need to invest in other more affordable programs, and backfill an operational shortfall of potentially over 800 tactical fighters," said Rep. Donald Norcross, chair of the HASC tactical air and land forces subcommittee.

B-21 A Good News Story; DoD Acquisition 'Getting Better:' HASC Chair Rep. Adam Smith, who's excoriated the F-35, said the B-21 bomber is "on time, on budget, and they're making it work in a very intelligent way."

Electric Battlefield: Army Awards $600K For R&D Six small companies got $100,000 awards to do an eight-week sprint on ways to move the Army to electric power. Meanwhile, an academic study denounced the Army's plan for mobile nuclear reactors.

Who's Who in Defense: Jim Langevin, Chairman, House Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems (CITI) Langevin chairs the newly-formed CITI Subcommittee that emerged onto the legislative scene following the dissolution of the Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee.

JLTV: Upstart GM Defense Takes On Incumbent Oshkosh Oshkosh designed and builds the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, but next year the Army will reopen the competition to all comers. The most vocal challenger: upstart GM Defense.

Afghanistan: The Long, Painful Retreat "I think the countries to the north of Afghanistan such as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are also going to be worried about the flows of refugees and perhaps fighters to the north. All of them will see what happens after we leave, how the United States postures itself, and then they'll decide what to do," Gen. McKenzie said this week.

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