Pentagon Cuts in the News

Pentagon Contractors are Lobbying

"The Guerilla Warfare of Pentagon Contractors" in The Huffington Post, 7/2/2012

"Military panic attack: Defense contractors raising unnecessary alarm over budget cuts" in The News Tribune, 7/8/2012

"Layoff threats put Congress on notice" in Politico, 6/13/2012

Budget Negotiations

"Defense Cuts: Not the End of the World" by Bart Hinkles in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, 8/15/2012

"Roscoe Bartlett hits GOP sequestration uproar" by Austin Wright, Politico, 8/8/2012

CATO Study: Defense Cuts Unlikely to Hurt U.S. Economy by John Bennett in U.S. News and World Report blog DOTMIL, 8/8/2012

"Senate Dem leader tells House GOP to compromise on taxes to avert automatic defense cuts" in The Washington Post, 7/12/2012

"The cuts no one believes will come" in Politico, 7/11/2012

"Budget-cutters eye DOD civilian workers" in Politico, 7/11/2012

"Harry Reid laces into GOP on sequester" in Politico, 7/12/2012

"Panetta: Sequestration threatens 'critical' programs" in Politico, 6/29/2012

"The disastrous impact of sequestration" in Politico, 6/24/2012

"Strategic reform can help offset budget impasse" in Politico, 6/24/2012

The Bloated Pentagon Budget

"Defense Contractor Time Machine: Less Spending, More Jobs, Analysis Reveals" from Project on Government Oversight, 8/6/2012

"House approves $606B defense budget" by David Rogers, Politico, 7/19/2012

"House Committee Adds Billions Military Doesn't Want" in Congress.org, 5/10/2012

"Crony Capitalism Creeps Into the Defense Budget" in Newsweek, 5/22/2012

"Air Force Jet’s Oxygen Problems Raise Lawmakers’ Ire" in The New York Times, 7/10/2012

"On the way to BRAC savings, a legion of cost overruns" in The Washington Post, 7/4/2012

"US defense research agency announces new phase of hypersonic flight program" in The Washington Post, 7/6/2012