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    Boeing braces for federal reduction in aerospace, defense spending

    October 3, 2012

    Sarah Pringle

    Ahwatukee Foothills News

    t’s a typical day along Boeing Co.’s production line turning out Apache AH-64D helicopters, new and remanufactured.

    Kelley Miles hammers rivets above the cockpit of a stripped-down helicopter getting a refit. Ronald Young builds the pylons that hold missiles and rockets. Pat Chi puts together [...]

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    Peering over the fiscal cliff

    October 1, 2012

    Tim Loughran

    Virginia Business

    A big red clock on the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) website http://www.secondtonone.org counts down the seconds to   Jan. 2.

    That is the current trigger date for “sequestration,” the awkward name for automatic budget cuts that would slice 10 percent from the $5 trillion the Pentagon plans [...]

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    Defense Cuts Poised to Deal Billions of Dollars in Damage to Contractor-heavy States

    September 30, 2012

    Fox News

    Defense contractors are bracing for a blow to business should Congress fail to avert massive automatic budget cuts come January.

    And newly emerging studies are starting to show which states will be hit hardest. For some, the budget ax amounts to billions of dollars in lost income over [...]

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    Defense cuts poised to deal billions of dollars in damage to contractor-heavy states

    September 30, 2012

    Fox News

    Defense contractors are bracing for a blow to business should Congress fail  to avert massive automatic budget cuts come January.

    And newly emerging studies are starting to show which states will be hit  hardest. For some, the budget ax amounts to billions of dollars in lost income  over [...]

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    What’s at the bottom of the fiscal cliff for Iowa?

    September 30, 2012
    Eastern Iowa’s already been feeling the effects, two months early

    Dave DeWitte

    The Gazette Many Americans find it difficult to believe Congress would send them over the “fiscal cliff,” that metaphorical spot where expiring Bush-era tax cuts meet sequestration budget cuts come Jan. 1, 2013.

    But the cliff already has [...]

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    Obama’s Sequestration: Imperiling Us at Home and Weakening Us Abroad

    September 27, 2012

    Elise Cooper

    American Thinker

    Muslim  nations are imploding against the looming backdrop of sequestration, the  trillion-dollar budget cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act, passed by  Congress last year.  As of January 1, 2013, half of those cuts must come  from defense, which amounts to about $600 billion over a [...]

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    Local companies watching defense cuts

    September 27, 2012

    Matt Sabo

    Daily Press

    GLOUCESTER — Potential cutbacks in national defense spending, called sequestration, could trickle down to local companies that earn millions of dollars annually in military contracts.

    In 2011, defense contracts of nearly $10 million were awarded to 17 companies in the counties of Gloucester, Mathews and Middlesex [...]

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    Center for Security Policy: Sequestration Could Threaten Guam Defense Contracts

    September 26, 2012

    Kevin Kerrigan

    Pacific News Center

    Guam – The mandatory cuts to federal spending known as “sequestration” will have a serious impact on federal defense contracts on Guam, unless Congress acts to head off the implantation of those cuts before the end of this year.

    “Sequestration” is the word used to [...]

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    Make Sequestration Work For Country, Not Destroy It

    September 26, 2012

    Jerry McConnell

    Canada Free Press

    The big news these days outside of terrorist killings and fire bombings of American embassies in most of the lands where the “peaceful” Muslims currently have the upper  hand and are administering their particular version of their “peaceful” and “loving” enforcement of their gentle hints [...]

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    Defense spending cuts could hurt Solano

    September 25, 2012

    Ian Thompson

    Daily Republic

    FAIRFIELD — Solano County could potentially lose $3.8 million in defense contract spending in 2013 if defense budget cuts scheduled for next year go through, according to a report released by the Center for Security Policy, a Washington-based defense think tank.

    The report, released last month, [...]

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