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		<title><![CDATA[Carter: DoD May Buy More F-35s To Speed Tests]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. defense officials might swell the F-35 fighter test fleet to avoid schedule slips forecast by DoD analysts, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said. Buying additional F-35s for testing is one option Pentagon brass are mulling as part of a months-long effort to fashion a management plan for the Lightning...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:14:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thus Spoke Carter: Notes from his Roundtable]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JSF: Pentagon acquisition czar Ashton Carter shed some light today on some of the options he is considering for restructuring the $300 billion U.S.-led Joint Strike Fighter program.   A Joint Estimate Team JET, made up of career cost and program evaluators at the Pentagon, has projected the Lockheed Martin...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:44:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Warner Withdraws From Consideration for QDR Panel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Republican Sen. John Warner said Nov. 16 he will not chair a special panel that will scrutinize the Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review. The statute that requires the Pentagon conduct the strategic study every four years also mandates the defense secretary "not later than six months before the date...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Counter-IED Task Force -- Eating JIEDDO's Lunch?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Homemade explosives found by US forces in Iraq. (Photo: Paul McLeary)      Late last week, Secretary of Defense Bob Gates added a new wrinkle to the Pentagon's efforts to combat the IED threat in Afghanistan by announcing that he was launching a new IED...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:49:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DTN News: Lockheed Martin Awarded $292 Million Contract To Provide Support For Pentagon Networks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  DTN News: Lockheed Martin Awarded $292 Million Contract To Provide Support For Pentagon Networks   *   Company to support network infrastructure for the Information Technology Agency  *Source: DTN News / Lockheed Martin  NSI News Source Info Arlington, Va., - November 5, 2009: The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:06:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BAE Systems Leads To Pentagon Complaints On Protests]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent press availability Ashton Carter the Defense Department's lead acquisition official stated he did not want to see "frivolous" protests in the future.  He may be disappointed as smaller defense budgets lead to heightened competition. by Matthew Potter]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:47:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No Central Pentagon IED Database, Bomb Chief Says]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're looking for a database that collects and tracks all of the Pentagon's counter-IED programs, don't look to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization JIEDDO to provide it. While the Pentagon's four year-old attempt to get "left of the boom" on the roadside bombs that have plagued the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:40:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Northrop Considering KC-X Legal Action]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Department's release of Northrop Grumman/EADS pricing data from its 2008 KC-X refueling tanker competition win to the loser, Boeing, broke rules governing such disclosures, Northrop officials assert, and their company is considering a variety of options, including legal action. The sharing of the company's proposed price for the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:44:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Northrop May Sue Over Tanker Price Release]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Northrop Grumman officials said today they might pursue legal action over the U.S. Air Force's 2008 disclosure to Boeing of the price Northrop and EADS pitched the service during the Pentagon's last attempt to buy new aerial tankers. The officials also questioned a draft KC-X solicitation, charging it sets...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:44:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DTN News: China Military Growth The 'Minimum Requirement' According To General Xu Caihou]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DTN News: China Military Growth The 'Minimum Requirement' According To General Xu Caihou   *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media  NSI News Source Info WASHINGTON, USA - October 28, 2009: Beijing's rapid military modernization, including the development of advanced weapons in the Pacific, merely meets its minimum...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:51:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Questions Emerge About Draft Tanker RFP]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Air Force's draft request for proposals RFP for the KC-135 refueler replacement program worth up to $35 billion lacks some key elements in assessing the risk and past performance of proposals, according to industry officials. These officials also object to the use of a fixed-price incentive contracting structure...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:44:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[JSF Hits Money Wall]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colin has advanced the story broken by Inside the Pentagon this morning about huge cost estimates that could dramatically restructure the Joint Strike Fighter program. A preliminary Pentagon cost estimate that the F-35 could cost as much as $17.1 billion more than currently planned is prompting calls from congressional sources...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:58:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DTN News: EADS Adds U.S. Executive As Battle For Pentagon Contract Heats Up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DTN News: EADS Adds U.S. Executive As Battle For Pentagon Contract Heats Up   *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media  NSI News Source Info NEW YORK, USA - October 22, 2009: International defense giant European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. has tapped a former Bush administration official...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:58:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pentagon backs off cloud availability claims]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days after claiming 99.999% availability for its new cloud computing service, a U.S. Defense Department spokesman says he misspoke and meant to say the agency is achieving 99.99% availability instead. At issue is the stability and reliability of the Defense Department's cloud computing service, which is called RACE for Rapid...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:10:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. 'Bunker Buster' Bomb Ready Soon: Pentagon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Oct. 7 that a giant "bunker buster" bomb will be ready within months, adding a powerful weapon to the U.S. arsenal amid tensions over Iran's nuclear program. The 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrator MOP is designed to knock out fortified sites buried deep underground, like those...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:47:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google. At a press conference Monday, the Defense Information Systems Agency DISA announced that it is allowing military users to run applications in production mode on its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:09:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[House-Senate Budget Clash Looms On Big Programs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate is expected to approve a $625.8 billion defense budget by Oct. 7, setting the stage for a potentially confrontational conference with the House over ships, planes and funding for the war in Afghanistan. The House passed its version of the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act in July. Total...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:00:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Budget Axeman Stalks Halls of Pentagon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The E-8C Joint Stars is supposed to start operations in Afghanistan next summer, but if Air Force officials cut upgrade packages, it may not be the higher-flying, multi-sensor platform that warfighters are hoping for.Credit: Northrop Grumman It certainly will not be able to meet the Joint Warfighter Urgent Operational Need...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:42:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pentagon hacker Tenenbaum pleads guilty to fraud]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former Pentagon hacker pleaded guilty last week to hacking US banks in a scheme believed to have cost banks at least $10m. Ehud Tenenbaum, who as "The Analyzer" hacked more than 400 military systems when just 19, pleaded guilty in New York last week to a single count of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Flying Pentagon Bugs: This Flapping Nano Bot is Phase One [UAVs]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copy this whole post to another site Last year, DARPA granted aerospace firm, Aeronvironment, a chunk of change and six-months to demonstrate a bird-sized Nano Air Vehicle NAV. This video shows the result: the "smallest ever free-flying aircraft to hover and climb with flapping wings." The image above comes from...]]></description>
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