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Monday, February 1st, 2010

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The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense QDR Overseers. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has named a dozen defense experts to the congressionally mandated panel that will conduct an independent review of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) report, which will be unveiled today. He chose former Defense Secretary William Perry and former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to chair the panel, the Pentagon says in a Jan. 29 release. Gates also tapped: Richard Armitage, former deputy…

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