Furlough Days Could Be Reduced to Five
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Pentagon officials are looking for other budget cuts to reduce furlough days from 11 to as few as five, reports Bloomberg Business. Meanwhile, Defense News reports that furloughs are creating three-day work weeks and productivity is plummeting say Pentagon officials.
National Review reports sequestration has proven no hardship to the large defense contractors’ 2Q profits. Even future DoD budget cuts, says Bloomberg, will not impact large weapon systems such as the F-35. Aviation Week’s defense blogger Bill Sweetman says sequestration is “trivial” compared to the, by now historic, time overruns of the F-35.
Smartronix of Hollywood, Md announced yesterday it had acquired Wyle’s Telemetry and Data Systems business unit.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a strategic-choices review of how DoD would look with budget cuts, it is expected to be released to the House Armed Services Committee Thursday, reports Defense Daily.
The court-martial verdict of Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, is scheduled for 1 p.m. today, Tuesday, reports CNN Security Clearance.
A University of Texas aerospace and engineering team with $3,000 worth of GPS “spoofing gear” hijacked a yacht in the Mediterranean, reports Next Gov.
Continuous research has led scientists to magnetite, a material that could open the way for computers to operate thousands of times faster than silicone allows, reports Next Gov.
