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Warrior 100K

Warrior 100K Mountain Bike Ride: Cycling With a President

Memorial Day weekend usually conjures up memories of a family BBQ or a day at the beach.  What it doesn’t is a 100K mountain bike ride with a former president. …

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The Year in Special Operations: 2013-2014 I Photos

Special operators as well as industry leaders from around the globe received their copies of The Year in Special Operations: 2013-2014 at the 2013 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC). …

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Wernberg 1945

Book Review – The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 By Rick Atkinson; Henry Holt and Co.; 896 pages; Volume Three of The Liberation Trilogy

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson, is the third volume in his Liberation Trilogy. Begun in 2002 with the release of An …

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BRAIN Initiative

Beyond the BRAIN Initiative DARPA's neurological research could have further applications

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Last month the Obama Administration unveiled a research project it hopes Congress will fund to the tune of $100 million in Fiscal 2014. The so-called BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through …

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Sequestration

Cybersecurity and Sequestration It seems unlikely that cybersecurity programs will suffer much under sequestration — but Congress’s new way of budgeting may already be doing some damage.

When sequestration hit on March 1, it couldn’t have happened at a worse time for federal employees charged with protecting the nation’s public and private networks – in fact, events …

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2014 Defense Budget

The 2014 Defense Budget Request: Another Whack at Personnel Costs

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On April 10, when the Department of Defense (DoD) finally released its 2014 Defense budget request, there was one thing everyone could agree on: The numbers in it didn’t mean …

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Wall Breaching Capability

SOCOM Seeks New Wall Breaching System

United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) elements are exploring the possibilities of procuring a new shoulder-fired, disposable wall breaching system. Acquisition of the new system capability surfaced in a recent …

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Gen.Dempsey, SECDEF Hagel, budget

The 2014 Defense Budget Request Invites a New Round of Head-scratching The Pentagon's fake budget?

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When the Obama Administration finally released its 2014 budget proposal on April 10 – more then two months later than required by law – DoD‘s defense budget proposal contained provisions …

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Sequestration Affects Military Families

Sequestration Affects Military Families What could happen – and what won’t

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After the sequestration hammer fell on March 1, Congress immediately began considering options for cushioning the blow to some federal programs. In signing the sequestration order, President Barack Obama, exercising …

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Military Deploment Communication

Communications With Loved Ones While Deployed New study shows families of deployed service members may do better with less communication

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Today’s deployed service members have better access to communications with loved ones than their predecessors could dream of. From satellite phones to texts, emails, Facebook, and other social media, deployed …

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