2028. The plan is to spend four trillion more before they can deliver on proving where the money is going. You can't make this up. I read the GAO reports so you don't have to. If fraud was a Ferris wheel, it would be shaped like the Pentagon. The Marine Corps is the only organization to complete an audit and they comprise one percent of all DoD spending. One percent. As previously discussed, the Marine Corps was able to obtain and sustain a clean audit opinion in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 largely through a substantive-based audit approach and manual effort. The Marine Corps’ auditor noted...

No one knows how to innovate better than the actual users of end-items and the Congress has manged to throw another bone to a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy by destroying right to repair for the services. US lawmakers have removed provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members’ right to repair their own equipment. The final language of the NDAA was shared by the House Armed Services Committee on Sunday, after weeks of delays pushed the annual funding bill to the end of the year. Among a host of other language changes made as part...

Vanguard class nuclear submarine But with all the scientists and engineers imported from Africa into the UK, how is this even possible? On a more serious note, it is high time for America to suspend its maintenance program of the Trident systems the UK uses. Yet another Islamic nuclear armed nation is not in the interests of the US. The replacements should have been coming into service in 2024, not 2032 like they are. The issues are mainly about the Royal Navy's ship and submarine R+D design center at Bristol being closed in the early '90s. Which meant that ship manufacturers who had...

The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass"  efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system rolls. Quantity does have a quality all of its own but the US is way behind the power curve. The future is drones in peer combat in the 21st century. The future is missiles in peer combat in the 21st century. The future is salvo competition in peer combat in the 21st century. The future is a war of leakers in peer combat in the...

Comfort is a thief.   Life is hard.   Do more and suck less.   Class dismissed.

As I have mentioned, the US Navy can't catch a break from the cavalcade of calamities that is Navy shipbuilding for two generations. First they removed the 155mm gun when it was disclosed it was 800 thousand dollars a round Advanced Gun System (AGS) then it took five years (!) to launch its first missile from the Vertical Launch System (VLS) on deck. They were going to build 32 of these floating dumpsters but have only built three. Instead of blowing the $22.4 billion on researching and developing the Zumwalts, the money would have been better spent by not being spent. The Zumwalts were...

This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years. The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with the Arleigh Burke class. Total appropriated: $7.6 billion for the initial six ships and the amount spent so far with delivery of two incomplete ships: around $2 billion to $2.5 billion. Canceling the Constellation-class is a major red flag over the US Navy’s eroding naval shipbuilding foundations. The challenge now is reviving...