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    Defense Department reduces furlough days to 14

    March 28, 2013

    By: Lisa Rein

    The Washington Post

    More than 700,000 civilian defense workers will be forced to take 14 days of furloughs instead of 22 between April and the end of the fiscal year, officials said, softening the blow of the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration.

    The decision Wednesday by [...]

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    Report: state could lose $900 million in defense

    March 12, 2013

    By: Bill Cummings

    CT Post

    HARTFORD — Connecticut’s defense industry could lose more than $906 million  in federal spending this year because of budget cuts forced by sequestration, a  state review predicts.

    The state Office  of Fiscal Analysis on Tuesday said the state should expect to lose about  $906.5 million [...]

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    Army depot to lay off 400 contract employees

    March 11, 2013

    By: Sean Reilly

    Federal Times

    Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania plans to lay off more than 400 contract employees by the end of next month due to declining workload and sequester budget cuts.

    Last week, Tobyhanna officials announced that all of the depot’s roughly 3,600 Army civilian employees will be [...]

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    Sequestration threatens Connecticut’s defense industry

    March 10, 2013

    By: Bill Cummings

    Greenwich Time

    HARTFORD — A rush of automatic cuts in federal spending now in the pipeline  is creating chaos in Connecticut’s defense industry and threatening the state’s  anemic economic recovery.

    One large state defense contractor said last week the company is already  considering layoffs and state officials [...]

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    Defense firms face hit from budget cuts

    March 9, 2013

    By: Jim Spencer

    Minneapolis Star Tribune

    WASHINGTON – Minnesota’s biggest defense contractor, BAE Systems, thinks the automatic federal budget cuts that kicked in this month could lead to elimination of 10 percent of its U.S. workforce, or 4,000 jobs.

    The company can’t say how many, if any, of its 560 [...]

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    Defense cuts hit states and local economies, Georgia affected

    March 1, 2013

    by: Christopher Collins

    Examiner

    President Obama signed an order authorizing the government to begin cutting $85 billion from federal accounts on Friday and defense cuts are to hit states and counties hard according to a report released recently by the Center for Security Policy.

    The Pentagon must cut [...]

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    Big cuts looming due to sequestration

    February 26, 2013

    By Jeff Wolfe

    The Delaware County Daily Times

    Nobody wants it to happen, yet there is still a possibility that it could. Just how to avoid it from happening is the big issue.

    It’s called sequestration, a big word for $85 billion in sweeping budget cuts that could come from [...]

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    North Texas braces for defense cuts

    February 26, 2013

    by: Yamil Berard

    Star-Telegram

    Tension is mounting among North Texas aerospace workers as huge federal spending cuts due to take effect Friday under “sequestration” appear increasingly inevitable.

    With Congressional leaders at an apparent impasse, automatic spending cuts threaten thousands of jobs and programs at Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter and other [...]

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    Brevard could feel bigger sting from budget cuts than other communities

    February 26, 2013

    by: Wayne T. Price and Patrick Peterson

    Florida Today

    A key economic engine of Brevard County, the area’s defense, aerospace and engineering sectors, could get walloped by across the board cuts in federal government spending mandated by law if Congress can’t reach a budget deal by a Friday deadline.

    Start [...]

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    Why A Modest Cut To The Budget Will Cause Major Damage To The Military

    February 25, 2013

    by Loren Thompson

    Forbes

    As the March 1 deadline for averting across-the-board cuts to federal spending approaches, the ready and resilient military force that America has spent trillions of dollars creating since 9-11 is beginning to unravel.

    The Commandant of the Marine Corps says that if nothing changes, by January [...]

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