Quadrennial Defense Review

is submitted as an alternate proposal to the Cost of Capital Budgeting Analysis assignment, as the US Department of Defense does not use capital budgeting processes or the weighted average cost of capital numeric to qualify how to spend and invest their money, nor does it calculate official ROIs. In this paper, I will discuss the chronological process by which the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government create and implement the yearly budget, which is over $400 billion, specifically as it…

National Security Strategy and China Arthur Lykke, of the Army War College, modeled strategy with his simple National Security Strategy model. Lykke defined the pillars of National strategy as the ends (objectives), ways (methods used), and means (resources available) on which military and, ultimately, National Strategy are balanced. Imbalance of any pillar incurs strategic risk. Suitability, feasibility, and acceptability are the criteria from the pillars are evaluated. Suitability: can we…

also responsible to pay and hire the best defense manufacturing companies to manufacture specialized clothing, weapons, transportation,etc. The specialized clothing that is made for personnel has to be able to go through any type of weather, or setting. The weapons that are made need to be made so that it is fast and easy but also safe for the personnel to use when under attack such as rifles, grenades, machine guns,etc. The transportation that the defense manufacturing companies create are…

Quadreannial Homeland Security Review Report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) similarly defined HLS as “a concerted national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and…

cut spending, and it’s impossible to name them all in this article. We need to spend more money on the military until we reach this point. Now how insane that sounds is just as crazy as our current military budget is, and rising. The United States Defense department is the most over funded program in the U.S. and has risen to unprecedented rates since World War II. The only reasonable reason for a steady increasing military budget is of warring states that with unstable economies. There are no…

In simplistic terms we can all understand what sustainment is. Giving a generic definition of providing necessary supplies to continue operations for an extended duration of time, is fairly simple. According to ADP 4-0 which is the Army's doctrine for sustainment operations; "sustainment is the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion." Sustainment has always been the achilles tendon of continued…

Lynx Defense Range Bag This bag is made in the USA in Sanford North Carolina, and it is Berry Amendment compliant under USC, Title 10, and Section 2533a. What is the Berry Amendment and what does it have to do with a range bag anyway. The Berry Amendment is a statutory requirement that restricts the Department of Defense (DoD) from using funds appropriated or otherwise available to DoD for procurement of food, clothing, fabrics, fibers, yarns, other made-up textiles, and hand or measuring tools…

America’s Army 3 is video game designed by the United States military. It is a first person shooter game, in which players compete in multiplayer missions in a fictional conflict. In the game, the fictional Czervenian government has started a war, creating a refugee crisis. The US Army has been sent in to intervene and prevent a humanitarian crisis (America’s). The game was created by the US Army to serve as a recruiting tool, so the target audience is a teenage male. Their intent in creating…

readiness, and utilization. However, there is no mention of additional resources allocated for pre-mobilization training to maximize RC capabilities. b. DoD policy requires the RC to provide operational capabilities and strategic depth to meet defense requirements across the full spectrum…

Introduction Currently being a contractor for the Department of Defense (DOD), I chose to write my paper on performance-based logistics. Acquisition Logistics Engineering (2013) defines performance-based logistics as, The current approach for reducing the logistic footprint in operational environments while increasing overall warfighting capability and reducing cost. It calls for establishing long-term agreements between the developer and the warfighter on exactly what the support requirements…