US DOD highlights sustainable defense budget

I have to say Mr Gates is trying his very best to make sure the DOD does not suffer from cuts.

USAF will get its new Bomber see below.

For the Department of the Air Force, this efficiencies process made it possible to:

–Buy more of the most advanced Reaper UAVs and move essential ISR programs from the temporary war budget to the permanent base budget. Going forward, advanced unmanned strike and reconnaissance capabilities must become an integrated part of the service’s regular institutional force structure;
–Increase procurement of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle to assure access to space for both military and other government agencies while sustaining our industrial base;
–Modernize the radars of F-15s to keep this key fighter viable well into the future;
–Buy more simulators for JSF air crew training; and
–Develop a new long range, nuclear-capable penetrating bomber, which will be designed using proven technologies, an approach that should make it possible to deliver this capability on schedule and in quantity.
The Air Force proposed efficiencies measures that will total some $34 billion over five years and include:

–Consolidating two air operations centers in the United States and two in Europe;
–Consolidating three numbered Air Force staffs;
–Saving $500 million by reducing fuel and energy consumption within the Air Mobility Command;
–Improving depot and supply chain business processes to sustain weapons systems, thus improving readiness at lower cost; and
–Reducing the cost of communications infrastructure by 25 percent.

Initial link or information found in Defense Aerospace see below

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/121525/pentagon-announces-%24150bn-savings%2C-axes-efv%3B-delays-f_35b-and-cuts-manpower.html