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Raptor Trauma Shears Leatherman Continues Warfighter-influenced Product Design Efforts

Coming on the heels of its successful introduction of its Military Utility Tool (“MUT”) family of weapons and EOD utility tools, Leatherman Tool Group has continued close coordination with military …

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The Creation of the Proximity Fuze The National Defense Research Committee, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the "funny fuze"

When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses to the military were serious, both in the accoutrements of …

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Robotic hand and apple

New Robotic Hand Developed to Disarm IEDs DARPA, Sandia National Labs develop a dextrous, durable, less costly robotic hand

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), investigators at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new “robotic hand” that is both dexterous enough to mimic the capabilities …

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Troops deploy Afghanistan

Drawing Down Personnel Costs

The Pentagon’s FY 2013 budget proposal contains provisions that will hit both active-duty and retired personnel in their wallets – for years to come.

When it was finally passed on …

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The FY 2012 Defense Budget The drawdown begun

For all the fiery debates it launched in 2011, the U.S. military’s fiscal year 2012 budget achieved reality in anticlimactic form: part of the 1,200-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, finalized in …

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Milpers pay

The 2012 Defense Budget: Personnel Provisions The recently passed FY 2012 defense budget cuts end strengths, trims benefits packages

For the past 10 years, military personnel have enjoyed an expansion of benefits unrivaled in the history of the nation’s military – salary, health care benefits, pensions, and special pay …

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Panetta and Dempsey discussing 2013 budget

2013 Defense Budget Cuts Overview FY 2013 budget proposal cuts some programs but skips hard decisions

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed details of the Obama administration’s defense budget proposal in an announcement at the Pentagon on Jan. 26.

The plan for fiscal year 2013, which starts …

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Sequestration: What’s Next?

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As virtually everyone now knows, the congressional super committee’s abject failure to reach a deficit reduction agreement has triggered “sequestration.” The next question is: Now what?

Sequestration mandates $600 billion …

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Barrett sniper rifle

‘Concealable Sniper Rifle’ Sought to Combat Terrorism

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At the same time that the U.S. armed services and joint commands are evolving and refining their own sniper rifle system requirements, the U.S. Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) …

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SAIC's McLean Towers Headquarters

SAIC Fires Three Key Executives in IT Scandal Defense contractor fights New York demand for $600 million refund

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Like many other large American corporations, defense contractor SAIC has placed a lot of emphasis on ethical business conduct as a series of corporate scandals have made front-page news in …

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