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Spending Less, Spending Smarter: Recommendations for National Security Savings FY 2012 to FY 2021

July 20, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , National Security

Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $600 Billion in National Security Spending Cuts WASHINGTON, D.C.—The federal government could save... Read More

HR 1363 FY11 Defense/CR Only Cuts $4.4B

April 06, 2011 | Policy Brief | Budget & Tax , National Security

Not that it’s anything to sneeze at, but HR1363 the “Department of Defense and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011” that the... Read More

Common Sense Cuts—$900 billion in savings over 10 years

The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and... Read More

TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: National Security

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , National Security

NATIONAL SECURITY Total Cuts: $95 billion Total Achieved Savings: $7 billion For too long, the defense budget was considered... Read More

TCS Recommended Budget Cut List No. 2: Total Cuts $205+ billion

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Energy , National Security , Transportation & Infrastructure

The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and... Read More

TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Energy

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Energy , National Security

Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many projects and outdated programs still... Read More

TCS Recommended Budget Cuts for the 112th Congress

The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and... Read More

Fiscal Commission Defense Cuts: Strong Start, More Can be Done

November 12, 2010 | Fact Sheet | National Security

The draft recommendations released this week by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform propose... Read More

DOD Still Years Away From Managing its Money

September 29, 2010 | Fact Sheet | National Security

Despite efforts to save billions by improving the way it does business, the Defense Department is not only still years away from being... Read More

DOD Tries to Shave Billions From Contracting Costs

June 29, 2010 | Policy Brief | National Security

The scent of defense acquisition reform is heavy in the air again. Just don’t call it acquisition reform.  The Defense Department... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters... Read More