Time May Be Up for Pre-Election Sequestration Deal

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Defense News says time is up for a pre-election sequestration deal. The conservative National Review Online opines that sequestration fears are overblown. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates calls sequestration “managerial cowardice,” according to Aviation Week.

Washington Technology reports that the rate of contractors being suspended or disbarred from government service has been going up recently. A study finds that the defense spending boom of the last decade expanded the country’s industrial base (paywall) and shifted market share to more firms, according to Defense Daily.

Defense Aerospace says the insurgent attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, which destroyed six Harrier jump jets, shows that the doctrine underpinning the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is faulty. Meanwhile, Aviation Week reports that the JSF program has set aside one aircraft to exclusively test the plane’s troubled, high-tech helmet.

DoD announces that it has reached an agreement with Japan to fly the V-22 Osprey there.

Defense Tech goes flying with the Blue Angels.

China may have stealth fighters, but it needs its own engines, according to Wired.