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Defense Firms Brace for Hard Hit

  • September 23, 2013
  • Politico

Todd Harrison, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, suggested the defense industry will be a bit more insulated than the Pentagon in event of a shutdown, especially if it’s only for a short period.

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AirSea Battle Starts to Add Substance to Concept

  • September 23, 2013
  • DoD Buzz

Navy and Air Force personnel with the AirSea Battle office are in the early phases of putting some substance to the concept the two services have trotted out before Congress since the announcement of the Pacific Pivot two years ago/…/

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Clock is Ticking on Aging B61 Bomb, StratCom Chief Says

  • September 22, 2013
  • Omaha World Tribune

The oldest atomic bomb in the U.S. arsenal desperately needs to be upgraded before its aging electronics go bad early in the next decade, the head of the Offutt-based U.S. Strategic Command says/…/

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Sequestration Drives Firms To Push DoD Industry Policy

  • September 21, 2013
  • Defense News

A new Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) report, released Sept. 18, makes the case that gaining that data is a necessary prerequisite for any strategy, and that DoD is only beginning to gather that kind of intelligence.

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Air Force Kills Fly with Sledgehammer

  • September 20, 2013
  • TIME

With many defense experts concluding that the Air Force’s B-1 bomber fleet should be retired to save money (for a newer, better bomber, of course), the B-1’s backers aren’t giving up without a fight.

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