Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alarming numbers, partly because the Pentagon has insisted on funding military projects for only one year at a time, making it difficult for executives to raise money and tool up their plants for sustained, profitable production. Some 1,500 of the 6,000 subcontractors participating in one defense program dropped out in a single year. The deficiencies in defense production are so severe that they have distorted national strategy. One reason that the Pentagon for years has been planning for 60-to 90-day wars is that it did not believe the defense industry could turn out supplies for longer...
...with monotonous regularity in the Pentagon and Congress to describe the present consensus for military spending is "fragile." Congress and the nation will strongly support increased military outlays?if the Administration sets clear priorities for a sustained build up. But that support will be quickly lost if the rearmament program is perceived as nothing more than a crash attempt to solve America's serious national defense problems by merely throwing money at them...
...Trident submarine program is the most important defense project that the U.S. actually has under construction. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion apiece, the 560-ft.-long Tridents, each armed with 24 missiles, are to begin replacing the 34 aging Polaris and Poseidon subs that now carry the nation's sea-based nuclear warheads. Started in 1971, the Trident program has been racked by stunning cost overruns, delays and an angry feud involving the Navy and the sub's builder, the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corp. By now the first Trident, the U.S.S. Ohio...
...though McFarlane returned to Washington emptyhanded, top Administration officials had agreed last Wednesday night that the planes should be released as planned. Among the reasons: the Administration did not want to pick a fight with the influential Israeli lobby in Congress while it is trying to pass its economic program. In addition, many of Reagan's foreign policy advisers felt that despite the formal protests from the Arab world after the Iraqi reactor had been destroyed, many moderate leaders in the area were secretly pleased by what Israel had done. This comforting illusion also exploded last week: King Khalid...
...international nuclear affairs," the Reagan Administration last week issued a seven-point policy statement that both reaffirmed Washington's commitment to preventing the spread of atomic weapons and pledged the U.S. to be a "predictable and reliable partner for peaceful nuclear cooperation." Administration officials hailed the new program as being far more realistic and effective than that of Jimmy Carter. But critics claimed that the policy was much too vague to stop the frightening spread of devastating weapons and the potential for building them...