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March 2025
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Bending the Defense Cost Curve

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Bending the Defense Cost Curve

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March 26, 2025
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March 2025
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Speakers:
David Chu
David Chu

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Institute for Defense Analysis

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Harold Furchtgott-Roth

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Economics of the Internet

The United States Department of Defense is unlikely to get the sustained funding required to achieve its desired scale and capabilities. Therefore, maintaining costs will be a central challenge for the department. Norm Augustine warned several decades ago about the punishing increases in platform costs, and operating costs have continued to climb. What capital and operational strategies should the department consider? To what extent should the DoD be concerned about deferred costs like veterans鈥� benefits? And how might the Pentagon address political and cultural obstacles to change?

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