A Side-by-Side Comparison of House, Senate and Conference Defense Authorization Bills
A closer look a the FY16 National Defense Authorization Act.
Sarah Tully for The Hill: The Syria Snafu
Research and Policy Assistant Sarah Tully published this op-ed in The Hill on the $500 million program that resulted in only a few trained Syrian soldiers.
LA Times Quotes Phil Coyle on Air Defense System “JLENS”
How a $2.7 billion air-defense system became a ‘zombie’ program Unknown to most Americans, the Pentagon has spent $2.7 billion developing a system of giant radar-equipped blimps to provide an early warning if the country were ever attacked with cruise missiles, drones or other low-flying weapons. After nearly two decades of disappointment and delay, the […]
The Pentagon’s Quantity Over Quality Problem
The United States spent just about $610 billion on defense last year. That’s more than the next seven countries combined.
But it’s not new news that the U.S. spends more than any other country on defense. What is becoming more apparent, as we come to the end of the 2015 fiscal year, is the opaque and often inconsistent method by which Congress splices together the Pentagon budget.
