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		<title><![CDATA[ARES Systems Group Armor Appliqué Gets Thumbs Up From Army Aberdeen Test Center]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200803/ai_n24367246]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Lighter, stronger, more cost-effective armor for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected MRAP vehicles -- that's what ARES Systems Group and Blackwater Worldwide have offered the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps. The EXO Scale armor appliqué, developed by ARES, was submitted to the Marine Corps in response to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weight watch: search continues for lighter alternatives to steel armor.(Tactical Vehicles)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6540/is_200802/ai_n25909375]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]    Becoming a lighter and faster force--Army officials have iterated  endlessly--is among the service's paramount goals. But the Army may  have a tough time getting there as long as tons of heavy steel plates  continue to bear down on its patrol and combat...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Letter: Add-on armortooheavy for new vehicles]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200707/ai_n19362912]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Armor intended to protect the Pentagon's new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles against the most powerful roadside bombs is too heavy to use, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.     The add-on armor known as Frag Kit 6 could overwhelm all MRAPs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[John Deere to Build TRAMs for Marines.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5129/is_200704/ai_n19219135]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Walt Moore       Given the federal government's fondness for acronyms, the U.S.  Department of Defense calls a specially modified Deere 624J wheel loader  a TRAM - for tractor, rubber-tired, articulated-steering, multi-purpose  vehicle.       John Deere has a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: Military errors held up armor in Iraq]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miscalculations and problems in the military supply pipeline created delays in armoring the Army's truck fleet in Iraq, leaving soldiers at greater risk from lethal explosions, according to a new government study.  When insurgents started targeting U.S. troop convoys with hidden bombs, commanders asked for more armor for humvees...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Humvee vulnerabilities raise doubts on future]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Even the most heavily armored Humvees may be inadequate to protect U.S. troops from ever-changing insurgent tactics, the Marine Corps' second-ranking general told lawmakers Tuesday. New vehicle designs, however, would take years to develop.  The House Armed Services Committee questioned Gen. William Nyland, assistant commandant of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arotech Receives $1 Million Vehicle Armor Order from U.S. Army; Arotech's Armour of America Will Supply Armor Kits to Protect US Army Vehicles Operating in Iraq]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUBURN, Ala. -- Arotech Corporation (NasdaqNM: ARTX) announced today that its AoA Armour of America subsidiary, belonging to its Armor Division, has received a new order valued at over $1 million for ballistic armor kits.  Arotech's AoA subsidiary will supply its armor kits to protect U.S. Army vehicles operating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Kevlar Congress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and Pentagon have taken a lot of heat, some of it probably deserved, for an alleged shortage of armored Humvees in Iraq. The issue came to a boil several weeks back, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was confronted by a G.I. on the issue during a widely...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On the cutting edge of technology: with sustainability and survivability in mind, AMC's engineers and scientists focus on quickly getting the right technologies into the hands of Soldiers when they need it]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE war on terrorism has changed the way Soldiers fight and how the Army protects them.  Recent advances in science and technology have helped save Soldiers' lives by providing them with improved means of detecting and destroying enemy weapons. At the same time, these new technologies have decreased the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[House Approves Fiscal Year 2005 National Defense Authorization Act]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 4200, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, on a bipartisan 391 to 34 vote On 20 May. The legislation authorizes $422 billion for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy.House Armed Services Committee...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On the cutting edge of the war on terrorism]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200310/ai_n9309582]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Third U.S. Army:The war on terror continues to place a significant burden on the U.S. military, and the Army is bearing the brunt of it. U.S. Central Command (USCENT-COM) in particular remains deeply engaged in shaping and prosecuting combat operations across its area of responsibility AOR, a geographic region of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[60 years ago. (Pastimes).]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 2942: Glad to learn that the National Academy of Sciences has  formulated a War Metallurgy Committee to advise the Army, Navy and other  government agencies on special metallurgical problems, and to plan and  supervise definite research projects for either war materials or  armaments, and hopeful...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DoD News Briefing -- Part 2 of 2.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-15 October 2001-US DOD: DoD News Briefing -- Part 2  of 2 C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:15102001    Q: Just a point of clarification. Way back in the briefing you  started  to outline four areas of military confrontation.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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