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Matthew Potter is a resident of Huntsville, Ala., where he works supporting U.S. Army aviation programs. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he began work as a defense contractor in Washington D.C. specializing in program management and budget development and execution. In the last 15 years Matthew has worked...- more about Matthew Potter »
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- First Shoe Drops For EADS On A400M
- South Africa announced that it had canceled their order for eight A400M transports due to the price increase caused by the program delays. This is the first order lost for the troubled program and will only add to the price woes associated with it. by Matthew Potter
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- New Military Contracts Limit Losses For Oshkosh
- Oshkosh reported losses of over a billion dollars for Fiscal Year 2009 due to charges and debt reduction. Recent wins of military production contracts have improved the recent quarters but the future for commercial products is fairly bleak. by Matthew Potter
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Fighting Over Natural Resources To Balance Your Budget
- Some nations and regions are blessed with possessing valuable natural resources like oil or natural gas. This has led to those areas to use the revenue to prop up and balance their budget. In the United Kingdom Scotland is the main production area for oil thanks to the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Spreading The Stimulus Dollars Somewhat Haphazardly
- Recovery.org is a private website that is doing an excellent job of tracking the spending associated with the "Stimulus" bill of earlier this year. Their front page shows a map of the U.S. illustrating how much money each state has received to date. As you would expect the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Trying To Keep A Good Program Up -- Raptors and Helicopters
- There is no doubt that the ending of any major acquisition program if it either in production or development is difficult. Companies lose a great deal of future money, people lose their jobs, the services feel like they lose capabilities no other system can provide and politicians look weak...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Health Care Reform Is All In The Money
- One of the core goals of the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress is some sort of health care reform. The House and Senate are creating their own bills; in some cases several different ones from different groups of legislators. The primary goal of all this is to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Restructure Defense Programs And Lose Some Jobs
- Two little articles on Sunday about areas that will be hard hit when their respective governments change tack on defense programs. There will be many more of these as the UK and American defense budgets begin their long winding down from the post-9/11 peaks. It is funny, other...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Will America Follow Japan?
- Japan has spent the better part of the last ten years trying to spend its way out of economic problems. The governments have used various stimulus and public works spending to try and get their economy to pick up from their last slide. Now with the worst recession...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Why Is Defense Acquisition So Difficult?
- This chart at the Defense Acquisition University DAU shows the Integrated Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Life Cycle Management System for a whole program's life. It starts at program conception and then moves through demilitarization and disposal. As you can see it...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Supplemental Approved Chock Full Of Non-Military Stuff
- President Obama approved the last supplemental defense spending law last night. The bill contains non-defense spending as well as also saving some programs recommended for termination by the Obama Administration. The original cost of the bill as requested by the Executive Branch was around $83 billion. The...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- When Federal Programs Collide Or The Road To Hell
- The Federal Government has a variety of laws favoring certain types of minority owned and small businesses. One of the largest groups receiving these preferences are those owned by Native American tribes and individuals. They receive consideration when they bid on contracts and as part of the small...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Congress Bucks Obama On Defense Spending And Receives Veto Threat
- On top of the House adding money to the 2010 Defense Budget for more F-22 fighters, the Senate has also done the same. To add fuel to the fire the Senate kept alive the second engine for the F-35. The President and Secretary of Defense Gates'...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Congressman Brags About Local Defense Spending But Did He Influence It?
- This is a fairly typical article that often appears in the local press describing how Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK) secured all this money for his district through daunt of hard work and sweat. Normally a lot of these are written when a funding bill passes. In this case...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Slowing Down Government Contracting
- One of the major complaints within the Federal Government about contracting is the length of time it takes to award a contract. This issue affects all types of contracts, whether it is is buying new jet fighter or pencils or hiring Scientific, Engineering, Technical and Analysis SETA contractors. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- BAE To Follow Lockheed Martin On Job Cuts
- BAE announced that with the House Armed Services Committee marking up the 2010 Defense Authorization bill without sparing the Future Combat System FCS that they will have to cut jobs at their Fridley, MN plant. This is where the actual gun for the Non-Line-of-Sight-Cannon (N-LOSC) part of FCS is...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- F-22 Kept Alive By The House Armed Services Committee
- In their mark up of the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill the House Armed Services Committee HASC added over $300 million to buy long lead items for a further twelve F-22 Raptor aircraft. This was added by a vote of 31-30 by the Committee. With the last...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Last Supplemental For Defense Spending Halfway There
- The House of Representatives passed the 2009 wartime supplemental bill on Tuesday. Now it will go to the Senate for approval. If there are substantial differences then there will be a conference with a new round of voting. Lastly it needs to be signed by President Obama....
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Worrying About 2011's Defense Budget
- The way the Federal budget process works is that the current year budget is being executed after being passed by Congress on or about October 1st of the previous year. The next year's budget is on Capitol Hill to be reviewed and voted on by Congress, and the budget...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- How Is That Whole Buy American Thing Working Out?
- All levels of the United States governments are facing a quandary about how best to maximize the result of the "Stimulus" and other spending as well as maximizing the number of jobs being created within the U.S. The original language of the $787 billion "Stimulus" bill passed by Congress...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- More Indian Defense Corruption -- But We Need The Weapons So What To Do?
- In yet another in the continuing saga of bribes related to defense contracts the Indian government suspended seven companies with recent contracts due to bribery allegations against Sudipta Ghosh. Ghosh was the former head of the Ordnance Factories Board. The allegations and evidence were so serious...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
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