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Gates to close JFCOM, cut gen. officer billets

Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed U.S. Joint Forces Command on Monday with the announcement that the Norfolk, Va.-based command will be shuttered “in about a year” as part of the latest round of cost-cutting measures.

The four-star command, home to 2,800 service members and employing more than 3,000 contractors, will pass along its primary mission — managing forces and coordinating deployments — to the office of the Joint Staff, Gates said at a Pentagon news briefing.

The move is part of a broader cost-cutting effort that Gates said is vital to maintaining the military’s current size and capabilities. Gates began a cost reduction effort last year by ending the Air Force’s F-22 program and trying to eliminate an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Gates also wants to cut 50 flag-officer billets in the next two years. He noted that the total number of jobs for generals and admirals has grown by about 100 since 2001.

The money-saving measures unveiled will have little immediate impact on most service members. But Gates said changes to the military’s Tricare health care system — either increases in fees or service cutbacks — may be on the horizon.

“There are no sacred cows, and health care cannot be an exception to that,” Gates said.

Gates also called for the elimination of two little-known agencies that he said were redundant and unnecessary: the Business Transformation Agency, created in 2006 to overhaul the Pentagon’s business practices, and office of the Networks and Defense Integration, or NII, that was set up in 2003 to oversee communications technology programs....

Ein guter Anfang auch wenn es nur ein winziger Tropfen auf den heißen Stein ist, so ist die Zielrichtung mahl zu Abwechslung richtig. Kurz schneide die Bürokratie und gibt das Geld für nützliches wie Waffen aus, so in etwa kann man Gates 100 Mrd. Geld Umverteilungsprojekt beschreiben das auch das Ziel hat den US Etat vor Geisteskranken Abschaum aller Barney Frank und Ron Paul zu beschützen. Leider ist Gates Vorgehen noch viel zu zaghaft wen auch wie gesagt die Richtung stimmt, den das Groß des US Wehrhaushaltes macht die Bürokratie und die Gesundheitsvorsorge aus, nur durch harte Einschnitte in diesen beiden Feldern kann man wieder genügend Geld zusammenkratzen um dringend benötigte Ausrüstung zu beschaffen. Andernfalls wird man in den nächsten Größeren Krieg mit Bürokraten anstatt mit Marschflugkörpern und Raketen schießen müssen.




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U.S. Army eyeing 'nanomissile' launcher


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The Army is looking at launching large numbers of small orbiting satellites that can be put in space with small, inexpensive launch vehicles, SPACE.com reported Monday.

"The interest we have in the orbital part is that these nanosatellites we're building have price points that are between $300,000 and $1 million per satellite," John London of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command said.

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Raytheon Develops Next Gen Jammer Technology For U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company a $42 million contract to develop advanced electronic attack system technology known as the Next Generation Jammer.

The Next Generation Jammer is scheduled to replace the legacy ALQ-99 jamming pods, providing new capabilities for the U.S. Navy's EA-18G Growler, F-35 aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Raytheon completed an initial feasibility study and proposed an innovative airborne electronic attack architecture, concept design and demonstrator program that will mature the technology for key elements of a Next Generation Jammer capability.

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The $450 million contract calls for Raytheon's GBU-53/B to begin engineering manufacturing development. Delivery is expected to begin in 2013 with a required assets available date in late 2014.

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GD To Produce Hydra 70 Rockets Warheads And Motors

The U.S. Army Contracting Command, AMCOM Contracting Center, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products a firm fixed price contract for the production of the 2.75-inch Hydra-70 rocket system.

The award consists of a base-year contract valued at approximately $278 million to support the fiscal year 2010 requirements for the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and foreign military, with deliveries through October 2012......