Coasting Guards

The US Coast Guard has been the focal point of many scrutinous eyes as of late. The highly anticipated and highly funded program, Integrated Deepwater System Program (Deepwater) is a 25-year, $24 billion program to integrate and modernize the fleet of aircraft, ships, logistics and command systems of the US Coast Guard. This program was started in 2002 and it has been a contentious program since the beginning.

Nunn-McCurdy, ’nuff Said

After perusing some of my favorite Military rags the other day, I came across a lesser known, but gem of a magazine called National Defense. It was time for the February edition. This publication is well read at the Pentagon and no doubt by those contractors who work with the DoD. It usually has a flare of “look at my knew gun” or “I woke up and there were seven new digits in my bank account” type stories, however, Sandra I. Erwin wrote a piece about Pentagon procurement officers working to keep their programs on budget. She was borderline cavalier with some of points of egregious overspending, but she brought up a wonderfully overlooked law called the Nunn-McCurdy Amendment.