

Adm. Christopher Grady, vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Joint Requirements Oversight Council is “well on pace” to putting more “teeth” into its processes for driving the military services to fulfill joint requirements.
By Theresa Hitchens
Acting Navy Secretary Modly says the “bottom line is that we need to find at least $40 billion in real line-of-accounting savings to fund the development, construction, and sustainment of this new [355 ship fleet] over the next 5 years.”
By Paul McLeary
WASHINGTON: Jamie Morin, head of the Pentagon’s quiet but powerful Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office, offered an understated and emphatic explanation today of why Congress’s inability to do its basic work and pass spending bills poses dramatic challenges to the US military. Morin and his colleagues at CAPE rarely appear in public and even more rarely…
By Colin Clark