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Gunship guru saves $14 million
Bill Walter, an Air Force Special Operation Command Strike Requirements Branch program analyst, has a long history of brainstorming money-saving ideas and seeing them to fruition. A tip from the U.S. Army Ammunition Program Office led Walter to a valuable supply of modified 40 mm M2 A1 gun parts used on the AC-130 gunship, which [...]
Airforce top engineers give tips on saving energy, money
Summer is officially under way. While it means fun in the sun for Airmen and their families, it can be an expensive, wasteful time of year for the Air Force. Utility bills on installations often rise drastically as air conditioning units and sprinkler systems work to keep up. The Air Force spends more than $1 [...]
Why the Pentagon Wastes Money and How to Fix the Problem
The U.S. defense budget is challenged perhaps as never before in modern times from without and within. The 2010 bipartisan Budget Control Act (BCA) imposed minimum reductions of some $480 billion over the next ten years. There is also the possibility of an additional cut in defense spending of around $500 billion over the same [...]
President’s plan likely to affect 2013 defense budget
President Barack Obama’s effort to seek additional savings within the Defense Department likely will affect the department’s fiscal 2013 budget, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said April 13. The president announced that he plans to work with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [...]
Obama, Gates, Joint Chiefs to Find More Savings
President Barack Obama today said he will work with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to find more savings in the Defense Department to reduce the federal deficit. Obama made the statement as part of a speech at George Washington University here to set the framework to reduce federal borrowing [...]
Fuel savings officials plan to broaden impact with AF-wide summit
Members of the Air Force’s Fuel Efficiency Office plan to host their first service-wide Aviation Operations Energy Steering Group summit here Feb. 16 and 17. Representatives from all Air Force major commands were invited to attend the summit. The event will be the first major meeting across the MAJCOMs, hosted by members of the AMC [...]
Gates Reveals Budget Efficiencies, Reinvestment Possibilities
The Defense Department has found $154 billion in efficiencies over the next five years and will be able to invest $70 billion of that saved money in more deserving accounts, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today. The secretary announced the savings and reinvesting of the efficiencies during a Pentagon news conference. Gates emphasized that [...]
DoD Announces $150 Billion Reinvestment from Efficiencies Savings
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced today a series of efficiencies decisions designed to save the Department of Defense more than $150 billion over the next five years primarily by reducing overhead costs, improving business practices and culling excess or troubled programs. Most of the resulting savings will be used by the Army, Navy, [...]
Saving energy begins at local level
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany: Every year the month of October is globally recognized as Energy Awareness Month. This year’s Energy Awareness Month theme, “Powering America; We’re on Target,” identifies the need to continue aiming at energy targets to lower operating expenses, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and develop cost-effective and sustainable energy resources, while maintaining our high mission [...]
