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

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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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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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‘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 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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Sikorsky X2 Technology Demonstrator

Superfast Helicopters

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Some two decades after immigrating to the United States in 1919, Igor Sikorsky’s aircraft company built America’s first mass-produced combat helicopter, the R-4. It and the follow-on R-6 were the …

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DoD Completes BRAC 2005

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After six years and almost $18 billion, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 is finalized. The deadline for compliance was Sept. 15.

The Army was responsible for 47 percent of …

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SAIC Wins DoD Awards, But Delays Ground Combat Vehicle Program With Protest

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After recently reporting financial results its CEO called “disappointing,” SAIC Inc. quickly bounced back by winning several large defense-related contracts that focus on the company’s technology expertise.

In the largest …

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U.S. soldiers from Route Clearance Patrol 45, 57th Engineer Company, 27th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, arrive at Combat Outpost Nerkh after making sure the route is clear from Forward Operating Base Airborne in Wardak province, Afghanistan, June 9, 2010. Some 26,000 MRAPs have been built and are still in production, but they are not suitable for all terrains and tasks, and the Marine Corps and Army are working to determine their future tactical vehicle fleets in a constrained budget environment. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Derec Pierson

Rewriting the 2011 Defense Budget: Raymond F. DuBois Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Earlier in the year, as part of the article that details the 2011 Department of Defense Authorization Bill, which was signed into law Jan. 7, 2011, we asked a select …

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Faircount Media Group Releases Defense Summer 2011 Edition

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In the Summer 2011 Edition of Defense

Clarence A. Robinson interviews Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) about the defense budget, his views of various defense issues as a veteran and a …

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