What happens when you get three former Defense Secretaries and one former National Security Advisor in one room? Well, one thing is they rarely agree. A gathering by RAND Corp. of Harold Brown, Frank Carlucci, Brent Scowcroft, and Robert McNamara produced agreement that the US may be “ignoring some long-term dangers and might even be intensifying them.” Read more here.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
