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by Roger
Kirkpatrick, Chapter President 
The Lone Star
Chapter
actively supports the national defense industry within the metroplex and surrounding areas. The metroplex area in Texas
and Oklahoma provide one of the best environments
for defense and civilian contractors to do business in the
United States.
Centrally located in the United States, this area hosts DFW
Airport, one
of the largest airports in the country, that provides easy
access to just about anywhere. There is no need for a
company to be located near
Washington, D.C. in order to be involved in the defense
industry. Air travel from DFW Airport to Washington, D.C. is regularly available at inexpensive prices.
This area is well known for its presence of
large and small defense and commercial prime contractors and
subcontractors that support the defense and commercial
industries. We have a large military presence, with
two proven military installations located on both sides of
the metroplex. These military installations as well as many
others across Texas and
Oklahoma support the active and reserve components of all
services. Texas and Oklahoma are friendly environments for
businesses and employees to find low cost housing
and many benefits. Together
these attributes form the kind of environment needed for companies
and employees to
take root.
If your company
or employees have important topics of interest to
convey to the public and to the membership let us know. We
would like to feature newsworthy matters involving your
company or outstanding accomplishments of your employees and
members of the NDIA on our website. You can
reach me at
972-603-2390 or write to me at
kirk.kirkpatrick@lmco.com
Come join and support the
Lone Star Chapter. We look forward to serving the community
and defense industry,
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In 1997 the National Defense Industrial Association
(NDIA) was founded by reason of a merger between the American Defense
Preparedness Association (ADPA) and the National Security Industrial
Association (NSIA) which was founded in 1944. The NDIA is a non-partisan, non-profit
association with a mission to provide a legal and
ethical forum for the interchange of ideas between government and industry
to resolve industrial problems of join concern. The primary interest are
the business and technical aspects of the government-industry relationship,
encompassing government policies and practices in the entire acquisition
process, including research and development, procurement, logistics support,
and many technical areas. The NDIA headquarters are located in Arlington,
Virginia.
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Defense Budget and Quadrennial Review
Sidestep Critical Issues
March 2010
by Lt. Gen. Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.,
USAF (Ret)
The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and
the fiscal year 2011 defense budget
proposal seek to achieve some worthy
goals, and echo Defense Secretary Robert
Gates’ main concern about the need to
prevail in current conflicts.
Missing, however, is an acknowledgement
of disconnects between program
priorities and existing spending plans.
A case in point is shipbuilding. There
are also gaps between stated strategic
priorities and actual programs, such as
long-range strike. Finally, the
documents are virtually silent on the
dire fiscal straits the country finds
itself in, huge federal deficits as far
as the eye can see, and the consequences
this will have on future defense
budgets.
First, the budget. The 2011 budget of
$708 billion — $549 billion in the base
and $159 billion for overseas
contingency operations — is a $17
billion increase over 2010. It amounts
to 1.8 percent real growth, not quite
the 2 percent sought by Gates.
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Reporting and
Compliance Requirements Imposed by the Recovery Act
BY PENNY PITTMAN COBEY
Timeo Danaos et dona
ferentes. 1
The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, Pub.L. No. 111-5 (ARRA or the Recovery
Act), is a staggering counterpunch to a staggering blow. As
this article goes to press, Americans find themselves under
economic stress almost unimaginable even two years ago:
national unemployment in excess of 10 percent (and up to 20
percent in some states)—only the second time since record
keeping began in 1948 that the jobless rate has topped 10
percent. If the jobless category is expanded to include
people who have stopped actively seeking work, as well as
those who are working part-time because they can’t
find full-time work, then national unemployment now exceeds
17.5 percent. Over seven million private sector jobs
have been lost since the recession officially
began in December 2007, and even the most optimistic
forecasters now expect job losses to continue well into
2010. Faced with such a crisis, unparalleled since the
1930s, Congress in February 2009 enacted the Recovery
Act,
a spending and tax relief
package valued at $787 billion. Drafted hastily and approved
by both houses with relatively limited debate, considering
its size and budgetary implications, the stimulus package
promised $144 billion in state and local fiscal relief, $111
billion for infrastructure and scientific research, $59
billion for health care, $43 billion to
energy, and on and on.
The question is not, “What’s in the stimulus for me?”
There’s something for almost everybody. The question is,
“What are the strings attached to all this federal
largesse?” There are many.
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