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Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
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Despite calls that Carter’s Defense reforms aren’t exactly daring, experts said they are a move in the right direction.
April 06, 2016 -
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The Defense Department builds economic assumptions and cost savings into its budget, but when those savings are too optimistic it hurts critical programs.
February 24, 2016 -
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The Pentagon didn't get everything it wanted for 2017 in the President's budget proposal. But it got a lot: $524 billion in the base, plus another $59 billion for overseas contingency operations. It's a mix of cost-cutting reforms and investments in what the brass sees as five strategic challenges. Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his insight.
February 11, 2016 -
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The Defense budget prioritized research and development and cyber, but that doesn't mean the third offset strategy is getting a lot of money in 2017.
February 05, 2016 -
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Fiscal 2017 may be the beginning of a funding gap between what the Defense Department needs and what it can be allocated unless Congress can fix the budget.
February 02, 2016 -
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Defense analysts think the National Commission on the Future of the Army could have been bolder in its recommendations.
January 29, 2016 -
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The budget deal cuts $250 million in civilian headquarters and mandates a report from the inspector general.
January 06, 2016 -
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As the U.S. military ponders third strategic offset strategy, it is letting one major advantage slip away. The armed services used to enjoy dominance in the electromagnetic spectrum — the airwaves. But they've failed to keep pace. That's according to Bryan Clark, author of a new study of EMS warfare. He's a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and he shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 14, 2015 -
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The Navy has to make some sink-or-swim decisions if it wants to remain intact. It must either maintain its fleet size and global presence and risk breaking the force or shrink to what it can afford. That's one finding of a comprehensive study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Former Navy Officer Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about how these decisions could affect the force.
November 19, 2015 -
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Unless they're strictly for transport, military vehicles are not worth much unless they're lethal to the enemy. That's one reason the Navy is moving to improve the lethalness of its littoral combat ships. The Navy's surface warfare chief has ordered the ships equipped with so-called over-the-horizon missiles. Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss this and other naval matters in this week's edition of Pentagon Solutions.
November 11, 2015 -
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Congress will rework the Defense authorization act to conform to budget deal parameters if it cannot garner enough votes to override the President’s veto.
October 29, 2015 Steve Bucci of the Heritage Foundation and Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments count down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
August 21, 2015-
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will propose a 401k-like retirement program for uniformed military personnel this week. USA today reports the goal is that everyone that leaves the military takes away a retirement fund, even if they don't stay in 20 years. Todd Harrison is senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he compared the idea to the work he's done on compensation and the work the Military Compensation Commission did.
March 30, 2015 -
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Nora Bensahel of American University and Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments count down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
January 30, 2015
