{"id":192968,"date":"2009-01-31T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/robert-gates-says-procurement-cuts-necessary\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T11:52:00","slug":"robert-gates-says-procurement-cuts-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/robert-gates-says-procurement-cuts-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Gates Says Procurement Cuts Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He says that we have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/01\/27\/gates-says-money-spigot-closing-refuses-to-endorse-fcs\/\">close the \u201cMoney Spigot\u201d and he&#8217;s refused to endorse FCS<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/01\/27\/next-gen-bomber-possible-casualty-of-economic-crisis-gates\/\">next-generation bomber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good.  They are useless in any foreseeable near term conflict, though some of the technologies, particularly with regard to communications could be folded into military operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He says that we have to close the \u201cMoney Spigot\u201d and he&#8217;s refused to endorse FCS or the next-generation bomber. Good. They are useless in any foreseeable near term conflict, though some of the technologies, particularly with regard to communications could be folded into military operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1008,1266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-future-combat-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}