Saturday, February 04, 2012
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Humvee Recap Questions Swirling On Capitol Hill Amid Army Budget Talks

Inside the Army, Feb. 6, 2012 -- Arguments are brewing on Capitol Hill as questions swirl around the Army's pending fiscal year 2013 budget request and its plans to terminate the competitive humvee recapitalization effort known as the Medium Expanded Capacity Vehicle program, according to congressional sources and industry officials close to the issue.

Senior Leaders Stress Need For Base Realignment and Closure In '13, '15

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Inside the Navy covers Navy and Marine Corps modernization efforts, policies and decision-making. Key focus areas include shipbuilding, the V-22 Osprey, the submarine force, maritime strategy, Coast Guard issues and the sea service’s role in the U.S. nuclear force structure.

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Eying Smaller Price Tag, Pentagon Formally Launches EFV Replacement Effort

DefenseAlert, Feb. 3, 2012 -- Less than a year after terminating the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program for runaway costs, the Pentagon has formally launched a replacement acquisition effort to develop an Amphibious Combat Vehicle -- a pared-down successor in terms of capability and cost the Marine Corps hopes will begin ferrying troops from ship to shore as soon as 2022.

Air Force White Paper On Force Structure Changes

 

Air Force To Fund Limited C-130 AMP, Transfer Liberty Fleet To ANG

DefenseAlert, Feb. 3, 2012 -- The Air Force intends to transfer its entire 42-aircraft MC-12 Liberty fleet to the Air National Guard and pursue a more limited version of its C-130 avionics modernization program, service leaders announced today.

Air Force In Early Acquisition Process For A DWSS Follow-On Program

Inside the Air Force, Feb. 3, 2012 -- Air Force officials are in the early stages of defining the requirements for a system that will provide capabilities similar to what the now-canceled Defense Weather Satellite System program would have provided, according to a service spokesman.

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Defense Next 02/03/2012

Egypt Aid Eyed

In new letters to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, 41 members of Congress are warning . . .

02/03/2012

Twitter Town Hall

The Pentagon is holding its first virtual "town hall" session on Twitter next week, according to this tweet from the Defense Department public affairs office: #DoD is happy to announce our first ever Twitter Town Hall . . .

02/02/2012

Returning Fire

The war of words between the winner and loser of a $355 million contract competition that gave the winning contractor the right to supply up to 20 light attack aircraft to the Afghanistan military escalated . . .

Honors & Awards

Inside the Pentagon won awards in 2011 from the National Press Club and the Washington, DC, chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, respectively, for reporting on the Defense Department's failure to put required cockpit voice recorders on V-22 Ospreys and for a series of stories on DOD's auditing problems. Read the stories and all of our award-winning coverage from prior years.