one is defense. end of a mission that was in lisbon and we will declare interim operation capability in chicago for that. >> whether or not the russia likes it or not ultimately? >> our hope is to find an agreement with russia. negotiations are ongoing. one is partnerships and we could see doing the afghanistan and -- the important partnership. interoperateability and add-ons by partner nations to our operations qand capability development the focus being on smart defense. >> do you think one ever the things which is always court of baffled me a little bit, is that you guys were located down in norfolk originally because you were collocated with the u.s. forces command that command was disbanded last year as a cost saving measure by the u.s. government. does it really make sense for you to be located down there or does it make better sense to be located up here in washington. >> i see we work very much with what is left from the norfolk area. second point, has dramatically increased relationship i ha

finally, although today about our defense strategy, i want to close with a word about the defense budget that will flow from this strategy. the details will be announced in the coming weeks. some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big. others will say that they are too small. it will be easy to take issue with a particular change in a particular program but i encourage all of us to remember what president eisenhower once said that each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration. the need to maintain balance in and among national programs. after a decade of war and as we rebuild the source of our strength at home and abroad, it's time to restore that balance. i think it's important for all americans to remember, over the past ten years, since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace. over the next ten years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow. because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership. in fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was

finally, although today is about our defense strategy, i want to close with a word about the defense budget that will flow from this strategy. the details will be announced in the coming weeks. some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big. others will say that they're too small. it will be easy to take issue with a particular change, in a particular program, but i encourage all of us to remember what president eisenhower once said, that each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration. the need to maintain balance in and among national programs. after a decade of war, and as we rebuild the source of our strength at hole and abroad, it's time to restore that balance. i think it's important for all americans to remember, over the past ten years, since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace. over the next ten years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this. it will still groavment because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership. in fact, the defense budget will still be large

finally, although today is about our defense strategy, i want to close with a word about the defense budget that will flow from this strategy. the details will be announced in the coming weeks. some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big. others will say that they're too small. it will be easy to take issue with a particular change in a particular program, but i encourage all of us to remember what president eisenhower once said, that each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration. we need to maintain balance in and among national programs. after a decade of war and as we rebuild the source of our strength at home and abroad, it's time to restore that balance. i think it's important for all-americans to remember over the past ten years since 9/11 our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace. over the next ten years the growth in the defense budget will slow but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership. in fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was

administra ♪[ music ] >>> welcome to this week in defense news i am vago muradian.ast week the obama administration previewed the highlights of a 5 year defense spending request that will be submitted to congress february 13th. leon pan net at that said the cuts would total over $259 billion over five years highlights include cutting nearly 75,000 active duty and marine corps personnel, maintaining the current bomber fleet, 11 aircraft carriernovel sea base to support forward deployed forces cut six fighter squadrons, retire aging airforce transport planes and cancel several programs including the c-27 transport and version of the global hawk unmanned aircraft. investment in time and technology would be maintained and new bomber and missile subdevelopped, a joint fighter would be delayed to reduce program risk and save money is the administration on the right track will they deliver real savingcapability as hoped and how will u.s. congress respond i am joined by rick mays congressional editor, lauren thompson of the lexington institute. todd harrison center for stra

we have some defense contractor clients. we also have car companies and movie studios, a full range of offerings. >> let me show you a slide of the defense contractors and these figures that you are going to see. we try to fight figures that are accurate. you cannot be sure what is missing. this comes from an organization called "washingtontechnology.com." the number one contractor this year almost at $11 billion. lockheed martin, then northrop, boeing, you can see the list. when you look at that list, what can you tell us? >> some of those folks make hardware. some provide services. kbr does the logistic piece. they man the chow halls. they make airplanes and other sorts of stuff. boeing makes aerospace. they're on tap to make the next generation tanker. dinecorp does everything to maintaining airplanes to overseas taking care of things. these numbers are huge, right? this is huge business. the only thing i will say to counter the critics, and i am agnostic, i am not a critic or supporter. i just point to 9/11. what i used

the best defenses left in the tournament. i look for them to win, it would be a great matchup in new england. dan: san francisco come back up, alex smith played a great game. the way they're playing defense, running the football the way they played today, they could beat green bay or the giants. shannon: two former super bowl m.v.p.'s going head-to-head for a chance to advance. you know this is former players, watch what other great players did before you played. aaron rodgers watched tom brady, alex smith put on a clinic, i expect to see both of them play tomorrow. james: boomer is normally up about 4:00 a.m., do you want to do this in about an hour? we'll see you tomorrow here on do this in about an hour? we'll see you tomorrow here on cbs. merely 7 grams of fat. better for you and irresistible, too. subway. the official training restaurant... of athletes everywhere. with the subway® chipotle chicken & cheese, january's featured $5 footlong. juicy chicken and melted cheese with a pop of spicy chipotle flavor. this january o

we continued to discuss the missile defense with very -- various allies and defense there.is an evolving conversation. i do not think there is a concrete set of plans that define an end point at this point, but it is a discussion with our allies, and we will continue to work with them on these issues. >> i would like to ask about the nuclear arsenal. document said it is [inaudible] . could you elaborate on that? is it still an open question that the department will try to preserve all of them? >> i think the strategy is very clear that we will continue to field a safe and effective deterrent, and continue to modernize and recapitalize as necessary. i think it is our judgment that we can maintain deterrence at lower levels of forces, but i will refer in the discussion to the budget went rolls out. rolls out.t >> i would like to ask a follow- up question earlier about coin. you built small fleets of minor air forces that have held out coin. do we expect to keep those, retire those? >> good question. the remarks i made for mostly oriented towards ground forces. your right, the

defense spending. ok matthew if i go to you in madison a lot of people would claim that it's just a military industrial complex it's called corporations that make an enormous amount of money off of americans wars abroad in military presence abroad this is what it's about to i mean they're going to still be making buckets of money on a defense spending again as i pointed out if you do the numbers over ten years and inflation and all of this it's not a whole lot different from the the the bush era. you can't discount the power of the military industrial complex that president eisenhower warned about six decades ago and a lot of times the pentagon just serves as the advance team for u.s. corporations and if you read this current doctrine it's going to still do that obama talks about the pentagon making sure free trade lanes are open around the world while those free trade lanes help us corporations who are plowing those lanes and sending their goods through those lanes so we need to recognize really what

that cr had in it a defense appropriations bill for fy-11. then in august, as we were sort of railing about whether we were going to default as a nation or set a fiscal year '12 cap was for all the national security. the defense department gets the lion's share of that reduction and set a fiscal cap for year '13. it set in place the supercommittee. we know where that ended up. right the monday before thanksgiving the supercommittee announce they'd failed to achieve one of their objectives which was to come up with numbers. they had achieved another one of their objectives is they had universal agreement that it was the other guy's fault. so they did achieve that goal. but what that set in place is a trigger that said okay, there are now additional cuts to come threw sequestration. that sequestration kicks in on january 2nd, 2013. that's a very magic date. it happens to be after the presidential election and the congressional election in 2012, but before any of the individuals who are elected in that election actually take office. which means

the same is true with the defense industrial base. you can cut programs and then make some investments that mitigate, you know, the downside to the industrial base. but, often, what will happen is, you know, your unit costs will go up. and you'll be paying money, in some cases, to support overhead and infrastructure, capacity in the industrial base and skills that you're not actively using. you know, there are good reasons to do that. but it gets hard to defend that. in front of congress year after year. so there are definitely risks involved with doing it. >> just a brief word on that. i wouldn't pay too much attention to the word itself as promising. this is a case of thesaurus inflation that todd referred to before. we used to hedge against things. we used to ask what if questions. it's also true when you return to the joint world, we used to synchronize things, now it's synergy. it's a different adverb that, presumably -- or a different adjective that presumably can notes more content than it really does. >> thank you, todd. i've

national defense isn't partisan matter, it's something that touches us all. we're just trying to be as honest and straightforward and analytical as we can so that we make this huge adjustment which is forced on us by the budget control act in the most sensible way so that has the least impact on our national defense. it's still a dangerous world. >> brown: thank you so much. >> thanks. >> warner: still to come on the "newshour": the republican battle in florida; running against congress; manufacturing's future in the u.s. and a conversation on austerity and politics. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: pirates in somalia threatened today to kill an american hostage, if the u.s. attempts to free him. the warning followed a navy seal raid that rescued another american and a dane, who had been held since october. the latest u.s. captive was abducted on saturday. his captors said today he's being moved frequently to discourage a new raid. one pirate said, "if they try again, we will all die together." in syria, governmen

in fact the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the bush administration. parts of the sad thing here is that the president says this to appease washington to appease the defense contractors and the like what this statement should do on the other hand is make people angry in force in such dire economic straits people out there are struggling they can't find work they can't afford their homes social programs are being cut federal and state jobs are being cut because the government needs to tighten its belt then why the hell re still spending more a defense than we were at the end of the bush administration all of this are winding down our wars downsizing now in a sane world i wouldn't be the only one asking this question though our mainstream media all their expert analyst and former generals that are on the payroll they'd be doing it too but sadly that's not exactly the case. speculation is that the army is going to be downsized and again the president and the defense secretary didn't give us really any real hard numbers you cannot fight two ground wars at

defense exports. saudi arabia approved the long- awaited purchase of $30 billion in new gear, including fighter aircraft and attack helicopters. the united arab emirates became the first nation to buy a cutting-edge new american anti- missile system and japan became the latest nation to pick the joint strike fighter as its next combat jet. can america sustain this pace of orders and will etion port sales be enough to affect budget cuts and how significant a competitor will japan be now that tokyo has decided to start exporting defense equipment and what's next for the administration's export reform initiatives? joining me now it remmie nation at the 'space industry association. he's a key player in the export reform debate. remmie, welcome back to the show. >> pleasure to be here. >> let's start off, how good of a year was it for u.s. arms exports and how important are these sales? >> you mentioned some of the wins that took place towards the end of the year and those, of course, were very significant

what are the defense implications of a potential space race? >> this may be controversial, and my director of communications will probably be sweating now, but i do not view the chinese as a threat in terms of space. they are very capable. they have a model that is on orbit right now that they will use as the first part of human- tended space station. they have a capsule but they used to carry cruise to orbit. hopefully everyone in here knows they have had three successful human missions. they have actually done a space walk. they have walked through the gemini program. they have made it through the gemini program. they have rendezvoused and dr ocked. sometime this year they will fly another anunmanned operation. i do not look at them as a competitor as much as i do a potential partner for further development of humankind. we right now cannot work with them bilaterally because i am prohibited by law, but all of my international partners do. i am the internal -- he eternal optimist, but i am also a realist. we're the only ones not working with t

but as it reduces spending, the defense department also wants to keep key defense companies in business. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: this is what it looked like the last time the defense department slashed its budget. after the cold war ended, the pentagon needed fewer weapons. defense contractors closed, leaving behind empty parking lots and an exodus of engineering talent. defense secretary leon panetta promised this round of cuts will be different. >> maintaining the vitality of the industrial base and avoiding imposing unacceptable cost or risk on our critical suppliers will guide many of the decisions that we have made. >> reporter: in the late '80s, the pentagon relied on more than 30 big defense contractors. now the number is down to a handful, leaving little room for consolidation. defense analyst todd harrision says the pentagon must figure out which companies are critical to national defense. >> so the fear in the pentagon is that, if we lose some critical skills in our industrial base or some critical capacity to manufacture things, that we might not be able to regain

you don't get that without defense. so i think there's, at that time, as i said, a subtle form of the washington monument strategy. while you didn't see big, gaudy cuts in this first round is they err being saved for the second round of negotiations about what will replace sequester. and it can either be a sequester-size deal for how you get that extra 600 billion demanded by the budget control act or it could be two and a half to three billion dollars that addresses the budget fiscal crisis that this country is in. >> i know we want to get to the next question, but let me just also faemphasize that part of tt debate and compromise has to take into account what do the ratings agen sis think about this? and this has never been part of our equation before. go back to november 21st, when the super committee failed and they announced that, in fact, we're going to have to move towards sequestration. from the point of view of the the ratings agencies, this would you say irrelevant. the dollars were still coming out. didn't ma

it affects almost every area in the defense budget. as i indicated today, the specific decisions on the budget are going to be contained in the president's budget. so i'm not going to talk about the spvk areas which are still in the process, frankly, of being finalized. but we have looked at every area of the defense budget. efficiencies, obviously, this is an area that involves this huge department that's here, duplications that are here, tightening the operations up that we have to titleen. secondly, the whole area of modernization, weaponization, procurement, being able to develop the kind of reforms that are necessary in that area in order to save costs, making decisions on weapons that we need with this kind of flexible and agile force that we're going to have. compensation. compensation is an areas that's grown by 80% in this department. we are going to have to develop some cost efficiencies there as well. as we try to maintain faith with the military. and lastly, force structure. force structure is going to come down it was goin

what does that mean for nato and european defense? and we take a closer look at the capabilities iran is developing to keep u.s. forces out of the persian gulf. but, first, a new cyber security strategy is emerging in washington. the obama administration is wrestling with how far it should go in defining national standards, not just for federal agencies, but also for critical infrastructure that's privately owned like power plants, transportation, data and financial services. the process is being led by the national security agency and builds on a document drafted two years ago that defines 20 critical cyber controls. now the secret event is working on a plan to require private industry to better protect itself from cyber threats. joining us now to explain what's going on and what it all means is dale mirose a retired air force major general who is now the vice president for cyber and information assurance at communication giants harris corporation. dale, welcome back to the show. >> thanks for having me, vago. >> let's start off. exa

thus driving the need for new defense strategic guidance. and as the air force approaches further reductions consistent with that guidance, our fleets are already smaller and older than at the end of the post cold war down sizing. by trading size for quantity the air force has made the hard choices to support the new strategic guidance in the fiscal year '13 budget submission. and we will be smaller but superb force that brings us to engage a full range of contingencies and threats. throughout this evolution we remain and shall remain committed to our ongoing responsibilities to provide globally postured, regionally taylored power, from nuclear deterrents to air, space and cyber operations, counter terrorism and global surveillance. we will sustain global operations through our continuing presence in the asia pacific and the middle east and by tayloring our presence in europe. air force capabilities are clearly instrumental to the major priorities of the new defense strategic guidance such as deterring and defeating aggression, projecting po

i ran calculations, you would have to decline the defense budget at about a 2% real rate, adjusting for inflation, a 2% reduction over the decade that gives you about the same level of total savings as you would under sequestration, it's a more gradual ramp down that is smoother for dod >> are the rating agencies looking at the $1.2 trillion today in total? >> yeah, the way the law is written, it the not take into account time/value of money. yes, you are back loading the cuts if you take the ramp down approach i was just talking about, so the real reduction is less, but, you know, that is the way the law is written. >> part two of my question, is there a legislative process to avoid it? >> changing the law. i mean, you have to change the law. the super committee was the legislative process to avoid it that was easiest to accomplish the process. it was to get through the house and senate without amendments and it was not subject to the 60 vote rule in the senate, that was the easiest way to avoid this and that opportunity has passed so now if they want to modify it, it's the regular leg

defense it's not either or. are you meaning that you can't you don't have to have both you don't have to go out offensively expand and have wars in order to defend at home you could do one or the other you could do both we're doing both you could actually have better quality of life and you could have a higher defense at home if you were to cut back on what's happening abroad and you know this is basically asymmetric war the taliban and al qaida in their fighters they know that because the united states is a high tech army they can get the united states to spend lots of money and you know having some sort of response to what they're doing and so it creates an asymmetry the actually it doesn't work in our food they are we see in the numbers i wish there was some way to really quantify what it meant this defense spending for quality of life i'm sure it would you know that rather more americans how much we're spending switching gears though speaking of spending and the fed is trying to tell congress sent him a pape

the budget of the federal budget was on defense.a fifth. under kennedy, we spent $ed 9.5% of the economy on the military. today it's headed to 4%. and shrinking. as a percentage of our economy, can get smaller and the fact is even if you don't want to work with the numbers, obama said himself we better be shrinking our capacity on the ground. the fact is that you can't simply announce and hope that there is not going to be incidents in the world with china arming itself hugely, iran about to go nuclear. instability in the middle east. how do we know that we are never going to have to be forced in to another land of confrontation in the next decade? we are not going to be prepared. >> bret: this will not be the last panel on this topic for sure. that is it for this panel, however. stay tuned for interesting prognostication. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you

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finally, although today is about our defense strategy, i want to close with a word about the defensewill flow from this strategy. the details will be announced in the coming weeks. some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big. others will say that they are too small. it will be easy to take issue with a particular change in a particular program. but i would encourage all of us remember what president eisenhower once said, that each proposal has to be weighed in the light of a broader consideration, the need to maintain balance in and among national programs. after a decade of war and as we rebuild the source of our strength at home and abroad, it's time to restore that balance. i think it's important for all americans to remember over the past 10 years, since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace. over the next 10 years, the growth and the defense budget will slow but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership. in fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was tow

we had a great defense this year. we wish him all the best in indy. >> there is a lot of history between baltimore and the colts. what are you going to do? >> shortly after 6:00 p.m., fans were on the line with brett hollander. >> as far as john pagano goes, i wish him all the luck in the world. he is a great guy. i wished he would take cam cameron with him. >> i am sure this is surprising far ozzie and john harbaugh. you have to get it done quickly before other people snapped those guys up. >> fans are already excited about the upcoming season. >> i have all the faith in the ravens in 2012. let's get back to the afc championship, when it, and go to the super bowl. >> gerry sandusky will have more on chuck pagano's departure. >> fan reaction has been pouring in on facebook. >> cannot say i am is a product he is moving up to a head coaching job for "michael seems to express the sentiments. the colts have already took from us once. a series of burglaries and all with one suspect in custody and another dead after a crash

finally, although today is about our defense strategy, i want to close with a word about the defensell flow from this strategy. the details will be announced in the coming weeks. some will no doubt say that the spending reductions are too big. others will say that they are too small. it will be easy to take issue with a particular change in a particular program. but i would encourage all of us remember what president eisenhower once said, that each proposal has to be weighed in the light of a broader consideration, the need to maintain balance in and among national programs. after a decade of war and as we rebuild the source of our strength at home and abroad, it's time to restore that balance. i think it's important for all americans to remember over the past 10 years, since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace. over the next 10 years, the growth and the defense budget will slow but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow because we have glob sponsibilities that demand our leadership. in fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward th

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