Defense
The U.S. military services would be forced to slash the accounts they tap to buy aircraft, vehicles, ships and ammunition by 9.4 percent each if Congress and the White House fail to reach a deficit-reduction accord, according to a White House report to Congress released Sept. 14. – Defense News
Download a PDF copy of the sequestration report – Politico
[A]mid all the dramatic rhetoric about those cuts, several nonpartisan Washington think tanks have produced analyses that suggest the process known as sequestration might be manageable. – Defense News
While sequestration looms as a potentially landscape-changing event for defense, the inner workings of the obscure government budget savings technique that has been dusted off from its last threatened use in the late 1980s look more like the complicated and gradual levers of bureaucracy than a guillotine. – Defense News
Rather than receiving too little oxygen, the pilots of one of the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft could be taking in too much, according to a NASA assessment of the F-22 ’s life support system. – Aviation Week
The Air Force’s variant on the joint strike fighter is reaching a “milestone,” when the Air Force will review the training operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and decide if progress on the human aspect of the program is ready to move forward. – Military Times
Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier, on Friday said it was aiming to wrap up long-delayed negotiations about a fifth batch of F-35 fighter jets by the end of the year. – Reuters
New Clear Weapons
The U.S. nuclear arsenal, the most powerful but indiscriminate class of weapons ever created, is set to undergo the costliest overhaul in its history, even as the military faces spending cuts to its conventional arms programs at a time of fiscal crisis. – Washington Post
On the outskirts of New Mexico’s largest city, a team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories is engaged in a long-running treasure hunt to make sure the oldest weapon in America’s nuclear arsenal, the B61 bomb, remains safe for deployment. – Washington Post
The War
An examination by The Washington Times shows that several details in the book “No Easy Day” already have appeared in print based on interviews with administration officials and likely will be included in an upcoming movie and another book. – Washington Times
