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Business/FinancialRussia Again Offering A Deal To Obama: Kill U.S.-European Missile Defense Plan, And Russia Won’t Deploy Iskander Missiles
Russians Think Obama Could Kill Planned European Missile Defense Without Seeming To Cave To Moscow Russia, testing the newly-inaugurated U.S. President Obama, has anew offered a deal: if the United […]
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Defense Contractors Have Options To Lessen Sting Of Threatened Defense Spending Reductions
Defense contactors have several moves they can make to lessen the brutal impact of impending defense spending cuts, according to Loren Thompson, COO of the Lexington Institute, a think tank […]
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Transcript: Excerpts Of Secretary Of Defense Gates Speaking To Congress On Missile Defense; United States Is Countering Chinese Buildup
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke as a witness before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and then before the House Armed Services Committee, touching on topics including missile defense. The […]
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CongressLevin: Acquisition Reform, Hill ‘Angst’ Over Defense Cuts Coming
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) plans to jump "heavily" into Pentagon acquisition reform efforts early this year, and its chairman predicts attempts will be more successful […]
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Special Gates Issue: Defense Secretary Sees New Opportunity To Gain Russian Assent For European Missile Defense
Russia May Agree To Share Missile Defense Radar Data With United States: Gates No Time To Lose, Because Iran Is Just Two To Three Years Away From Missiles Able To […]
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Gates Says Defense Spending Cuts Are Inevitable In Big-Ticket Programs
Defense spending cuts in big-ticket procurement programs are inevitable, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned. The Department of Defense can’t continue indefinitely the spending increases of recent years, and Pentagon […]
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VH-71 Has Critical Nunn-McCurdy Breach, Navy Tells Congress
By Geoff Fein As expected, the Navy this week submitted paperwork notifying Congress that the VH-71 presidential helicopter has a Nunn-McCurdy breach. Navy Secretary Donald Winter signed off on the […]
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McCain, Grassley Raise Fresh Concerns About Lynn Confirmation
By Emelie Rutherford Chances for a quick Senate confirmation of William Lynn as deputy defense secretary further diminished yesterday, when GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Charles Grassley (Iowa) demanded […]
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Taylor Wants Action On 10th LPD-17 Amphib
By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) is prodding the Pentagon to obligate money Congress approved this fiscal year for a 10th LPD-17 amphibious transport dock ship. The Navy, meanwhile, […]
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Gates Cites Concerns With Obama Ethics Rule, Warns of Tight Budget
By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates cited concerns with President Obama’s new ethics rules on Capitol Hill yesterday, saying a new executive order that sparked a flare up over the deputy defense […]