by Mary Kaszynski | Aug 1, 2012 | Monitor
The House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing today (watch it live here) on the effects of the budget sequester – the automatic, across-the-board cuts that will go into effect in January unless Congress can come up with a way to avoid it. Words we’ll...
by Zachary Miller | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
Defense industry, strategy at major crossroads August Cole and Zachary Miller/The Hill The U.S. defense industry faces as much uncertainty in the next six months as any time since the Berlin Wall fell. Unsteady attempts by lawmakers to avoid sequestration now make...
by Zachary Miller | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
In an op-ed for the Hill, Adjunct Fellow August Cole and Zachary Miller discuss the strategic implications of sequestration and how the defense industry is at a historic crossroads. Essentially, the defense industry is losing control of its future. The high-volume...
by Zachary Miller | Jul 20, 2012 | Monitor
There has been a great deal of discussion regarding the recent hearing by the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on industry perspectives on defense sequestration. If you didn’t have a chance see the hearing, spoiler alert, industry doesn’t like it. The message was...
by Zachary Miller | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor
As the sequestration clock continues to tick, the opportunity for a legitimate compromise in Congress appears to be diminishing. Secretary Panetta and JSC Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey recently pleaded for a solution with Congress claiming sequestration would...