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Hagel Announces Arctic Strategy to Begin Shaping Investment, Collaboration

Mai Hanoon

Monday, November 25th, 2013

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled an Arctic Strategy that puts the department on a slow path to incorporating Arctic-focused procurement, training, international partnerships and more into the mix of global requirements, as climate change promises to bring in more people seeking travel and economic opportunities. Hagel, speaking Friday from Halifax, Nova Scotia, said the department will increase its investment the Arctic region slowly, but the need to start planning and monitoring activities, as well as defining interagency and international collaborative…

Pentagon

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Congress

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Army

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Unmanned Systems

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