Fw: LCS: Navy Pushes Back Vs. Leaked Reports

--- On Wed, 5/8/13, Breaking Defense <newsletters@breakingdefense.com> wrote: From: Breaking Defense <newsletters@breakingdefense.com> Subject: LCS: Navy Pushes Back Vs. Leaked Reports To: kodiak241@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 6:03 PM View this email in your browser Wednesday, May 8, 2013 LCS: Navy Pushes Back Vs. Leaked Reports In a hastily convened conference call with journalists, the Navy pushed back against recent Congressional criticisms, based on leaked reports, of its Littoral Combat Ship. Yesterday, the LCS program took a 1-2 blow from Bloomberg, which had obtained an internal Navy study critiquing the new ship, and from BreakingDefense, which got a preliminary draft of… Keep reading → Tags: Adm. Richard Hunt, budget, capitol hill, Congress, GAO, Government Accountability Office, lcs, littoral combat ship, navy, shipbuilding Air Force Crisis: Sex, Nukes And Leadership WASHINGTON: The Air Force faces a crisis of leadership, a crisis of confidence, a crisis that must be addressed by whomever is nominated as the next secretary. The service is being battered by news story after news story. Today we learned of the suspension of 17 nuclear launch officers. Add to that the Sunday arrest for… Keep reading → Tags: air force, Air Force sexual assaults, capitol hill, Gen. Mark Welsh, Mike Donley, nuclear weapon scandal, Sen. Dick Durbin, Senate Appropriations Sen. McCain Slams $2.5B Carrier Cost Increase; Navy Struggles To Fund SSBN-X, Destroyers CAPITOL HILL: It's been a rough 48 hours for the US Navy. Yesterday, the Littoral Combat Ship was battered by House appropriators and questioned by a leaked report. Today it was the Senate Armed Service seapower subcommittee's turn to grill the Navy about its aircraft carrier and submarine programs. While the automatic 10-year budget cuts known as sequestration played a major role… Keep reading → Tags: 2013 budget, 2014 budget, capitol hill, carriers, Congress, CVN-78, DDG-51, destroyers, Huntington-Ingalls, littoral combat ship, lpd-17, navy, Newport News Shipbuilding, Sean Stackley, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Roger Wicker, Senate Armed Services Committee, sequestration, shipbuilding, SSBN-X, submarines, Virginia class submarine Gen. Odierno: Budget Crunch Will Render Army Unready For Syria & Hybrid War WASHINGTON: While the Army can keep troops headed for Afghanistan trained up and ready to go, the ongoing budget gridlock threatens its ability to prepare for crises around the world – from North Korea to Syria – conflicts that would require a very different kind of training than the counterinsurgency tactics the force has focused on… Keep reading → Tags: 2013 budget, 2014 budget, army, budget, Gen. Ray Odierno, hybrid war, military readiness, military training, North Korea, office of strategic landpower, sequestration, strategy, syria, TRADOC Copyright © 2013 Breaking Media, All rights reserved. You signed up on breakingdefense.com or on defense.aol.com prior to its acquisition by Breaking Media, Inc. Our mailing address is: Breaking Media 611 Broadway Ste 907D New York City, NY 10012 Add us to your address book