Defense News

William Hartung, an analyst at the Center for International Policy, said Pentagon planners need more than a rough estimate of total jobs that might be lost amid budget cuts. They note, for example, that some jobs are harder to fill than others; ...

The warnings are dire: The number of available radio frequencies is declining, say U.S. government officials, and with it the Pentagon’s ability to introduce new communications technology...

But a seven-year-old firm a stone’s throw from the Capital Beltway says it can harness “white space” in the spectrum to provide interoperable communications. The 30-employee firm, Shared Spectrum, had 2006 revenues of “about $8 million to $9 million” and expects about the same this year...

Although the Moscow Treaty's goal of reducing deployed nuclear arsenals is noble -- which is why the U.S. Senate approved it 95-0 in March -- its abandonment of long-held arms control principles makes the agreement a rather serious gamble. In fact, the treaty threatens to give us the worst of both the old and the new worlds, maintaining (and perhaps even destabilizing) the Cold War reliance on assured destruction while feeding the threat from nuclear terrorism.