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    High Stakes and the Sequester Squeeze

    May 6, 2013

    By: Gordon Adams

    Foreign Policy

    It’s all about national security, isn’t it? Or is it? Rick’s back room is alive and well in Washington, D.C. And it is shocking, just shocking, to learn that as the defense drawdown continues, not a single player at the defense table has [...]

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    Drones, Sequester Flexibility to Drive 2014 NDAA Debates

    May 6, 2013

    By: John T. Bennett

    Defense News

    WASHINGTON — US Lawmakers are expected to battle over armed drones, softening the blow of military budget cuts and a controversial missile defense shield as they craft Pentagon policy legislation for fiscal 2014.

    Mirroring the political climate in Washington, work on the past several [...]

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    Defense Industry Says Spending Cuts Lowering Job Gains

    May 3, 2013

    By: Paul Davidson

    Defense News

    Defense spending cuts are starting to take a toll on the economy, further slowing a sluggish jobs recovery.

    The effects were modest in April but will intensify in coming months.

    Many defense contractors “are telling us that this recently began to rock the supply [...]

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    Pentagon prepares to ask U.S. Congress for break from “sequester”

    May 1, 2013

    By David Lawder and David Alexander

    Reuters

    WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The Pentagon is preparing to ask Congress soon for more authority to shift funds to cope with automatic spending cuts,  confronting lawmakers with another exception to the “sequester” just days after they gave a break to the flying [...]

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    Shipbuilding Plan Portends a Navy in Decline

    April 25, 2013

    By: Mackenzie Eaglen and Bryan McGrath

    Real Clear Defense

    Listening to the Secretary of the Navy testify before Congress this week, one might be lulled into thinking all is well with U.S. Navy shipbuilding. But the president’s budget for 2014 shrinks and diminishes the Navy’s fleet. Again. Last year’s budget [...]

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    Spending cuts could force Army to lose more troops

    April 24, 2013

    By Richard Lardner | The Associated Press

    Pilot Online

    Senior Army officials warned Tuesday they may have to cut more than 100,000 additional soldiers over the next decade unless automatic spending reductions forcing the military services to slash their budgets are stopped.

    Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, [...]

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    Lockheed Martin Estimates Sequestration Impact in 2013 to Exceed US$800 million

    April 23, 2013

    Defense Update

    The world’s largest defense contractor Lockheed Martin assesses the potential effect of sequestration measures taken by the US Government could reduce its 2013 net sales by approximately $825 million. Lockheed Martin was the first major defense company to comment on the scale of sequestration impact on its performance [...]

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    Hagel’s Budget: Where’s The Beef In Reform Efforts, Weapons Buys?

    April 22, 2013

    By: Mackenzie Eaglen

    Aol Defense

    In a town full of hot air, speeches are a dime a dozen. But money still talks. So let’s compare the new Secretary of Defense’s policy agenda to his first proposed budget.While Leon Panetta, his predecessor, mostly built this budget, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel owns [...]

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    Sequester is an Afterthought in ’14 Negotiations

    April 21, 2013
    By John T. Bennett Defense News WASHINGTON — After months of dire warnings and political theater, the first sequestration-era Pentagon budget plan has landed on Capitol Hill like a feather floating onto a soft mattress.

    America’s top defense officials — echoed by their hawkish allies in Congress — warned [...]

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    Sequestration Threatens Embassy Security Additions

    April 19, 2013

    By: Matthew Cox

    DoD Buzz

    Sequestration is expected to weaken readiness across the U.S. military, but it’s also likely to thwart plans to beef up security at vulnerable American embassies around the world, a top Marine Corps official said Thursday.

    The Marine Corps is slated to report to Congress [...]

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