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  <title><![CDATA[Turkish Firms Flex Muscles at IDEF&apos;13]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Turkey&apos;s principal defense exhibition is no longer a venue for &apos;foreigners to showcase products aiming at Turkish market,&apos; but now an event where Turkish firms run the show, analysts and industry sources said.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pentagon: F-35 Program Costs Fell $4.5 Billion Last Year]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[No Nunn-McCurdy breach in Selected Acquisition Report]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama tackles drones, Guantanamo in reset of war on terror]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a &apos;perpetual&apos; US war on terror would be self defeating.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Polish Defense Holding Replaces Bumar Group]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Poland&apos;s leading defense manufacturer, the Bumar Group, rebranded itself as Polish Defense Holding (PHO) May 22.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Israel&apos;s Efficiency Contract Under Fire]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Israel&#39;s Defense Ministry is slightly ahead of schedule in a 10-year government-mandated plan to save 30 billion shekels (US $8.4 billion) through 2017, but no thanks, uniformed officers say, to the ministry&#39;s high-priced contract with an international consulting firm.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[India PM pledges to clean up defense sector]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Thursday to crack down on corruption in the defense sector after a string of recent graft scandals left his government facing renewed calls to step down.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[IMDEX Show Draws Navy Chiefs, 194 Firms]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Despite the uncertain economic climate, the biennial International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX) was fully booked last week.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finmeccanica Nears Linking-Up 8 Sim Facilities]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Italy&apos;s Finmeccanica is close to completing the link-up of eight of its simulator facilities to allow the integration of simulation training involving vehicles, helicopters, UAVs and other platforms.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rep. Sanchez: I&apos;m Coming To End MEADS Program]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A feisty US House Armed Services Committee Democrat put supporters of a controversial missile defense program on notice Wednesday, saying bluntly she plans to finally kill it.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US House Panel Defends Global Hawk, Wants More Army UAV Use]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[While the US Air Force has been trying to retire its fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 UAVs, the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee is again stepping in to keep the birds flying.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lockheed Uses Freedom To Push LCS Exports]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[If anyone wanted to see evidence of the US Navy&apos;s steps toward rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific last week, it was right there in haze gray.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Uncertainty Surrounds Pakistan Leader&apos;s Stance on Taliban, Military]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The election of Nawaz Sharif as Pakistani prime minister may bode well for a wider d&amp;eacute;tente with India, but dealing with the Taliban insurgency and relations with the military are uncertain, analysts said.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[LCS Suffers Engine Problem]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The USS Freedom, first of the US Navy&apos;s littoral combat ships, was forced to return to port in Singapore Tuesday after sediment was discovered in the ship&apos;s lube oil system.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US House Subcommittee Backs Multiyear Deals for Interceptors]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A US House Armed Services subcommittee on Wednesday approved legislation that would allow the use of multiyear contracts for interceptor missiles, require an Air Force plan for buying a key rocket and press Moscow on supplying missile components to rogue]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[HASC Panel Adopts Administration&apos;s Special Ops Budget Request]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Legislation approved Wednesday by a US House subcommittee fully supports the Obama administration&apos;s plan to budget special operations forces for more than $12 billion in 2014.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[S. Korea, Japan, US defense chiefs to meet]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The defense chiefs of South Korea, Japan and the United States will hold their first trilateral meeting for four years at the end of this month, with North Korea likely to top the agenda.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Philippines To Spend $1.8B on Defense To Resist &apos;Bullies&apos;]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday announced a $1.8-billion military upgrade to help defend his country&apos;s maritime territory against &apos;bullies&apos; amid an ever-worsening dispute with China.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House Republicans Signal Support for Cadre of Military Spies]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The US Defense Department&apos;s desire to create an unprecedented cadre of military spies is one step closer to becoming a clandestine reality.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House Subcommittee Supports Raising Carrier Cost Cap]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In its first swipe at the 2013 defense authorization bill, the House Seapower subcommittee approved a new cost cap for the US Navy&apos;s Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, and rejected again a service request to decommission nine ships as an economy measure.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Kerry in Oman To Help Ink $2.1B Defense Deal]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Oman on Tuesday aiming to help finalize an estimated US $2.1 billion deal to supply a US-made air-defense system to the Gulf nation.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Indian Firms Tapped for Howitzer Trials]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Problems Surfacing For Canada&apos;s Shipbuilding Plan]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Canada&apos;s multibillion-dollar naval shipbuilding program is heading into stormy seas, critics say, as new questions emerge about costs and the capability of domestic shipyards.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[No Mention of East Coast Missile Site in US House Panel Bill]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The first portion of a major Pentagon policy bill unveiled Tuesday by a key House committee excludes any mention of a controversial East Coast missile shield proposal.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[de Maizi&amp;egrave;re Sees German Military Restructuring As Final End To Cold War]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Despite continuing challenges, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizi&amp;egrave;re told the Bundestag he sees progress in the ongoing restructuring of the country&apos;s military.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[As Firms Target Exports, Offsets Create Headaches]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[With US and European defense spending cuts clouding future prospects, contractors have been hitting the export trail in an effort to retain their order backlogs.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Common Ground: The U.S. Army&apos;s Col. Charles Wells on Integrating Intel]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Col. Charles Wells is the program manager for the Army&apos;s Distributed Common Ground System, the service&apos;s effort to integrate all streams of intelligence.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Consultancy Forecasts Israeli UAS Export Growth]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Israeli annual export sales of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) averaged US $578 million over the past eight years and should grow by up to 10 percent yearly through 2020, according to Frost &amp; Sullivan.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Spec Ops Leaders Look Beyond Land Wars]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[About 7,000 members of the defense industry, along with hundreds of service members &#45; and plenty of guys with long beards &#45; packed into the Tampa Convention Center last week for the annual Special Operations Industry Conference (SOFIC).]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[French Industry Focuses on Costs]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The French defense industry &#45; facing a global marketplace where major spenders are confronting budget uncertainty and emerging markets are swarmed by companies aggressively competing for any growth opportunity &#45; appears to be turning to an old environment]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pentagon Wants $79.4B for Afghanistan in 2014]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon has asked Congress to approve $79.4 billion for combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014 .]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Strategy, Not Dollars]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Each time a US government department faces major challenges, the tendency of its leaders is to launch a strategic review.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Stealth, Range Are Key]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The US Navy is poised for an unmanned revolution. Last week, for the first time, it successfully catapulted an unmanned jet from an aircraft carrier.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[To Improve DoD Acquisition, Stop Reprogrammings]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Lost in the uproar about sequestration impacts on specific programs is that much of what&apos;s wrong with the Pentagon&apos;s finances is systemic or process related.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The &apos;S&apos; Word: US Military Can Stay Best Despite Sequestration]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[And so, sequestration has come. Sequestration is a reduction in funding without a reduction in programs, manpower, operational systems or infrastructure.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Official: Karzai To Seek More Military Aid During India Trip]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek greater Indian military aid during a visit this week to New Delhi, officials of both countries said Monday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Italian Navy Chief Proposes New Dual-Use Vessel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[5 More US Patrol Ships Heading to the Gulf]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD Examines 3 Budget-Cut Scenarios]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Senior US Defense Department officials are expected to present three budget-cutting scenarios to the defense secretary when they wrap up a wide-ranging review of military strategy at the end of this month, according to sources.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[N. Korea Test-Fires Another Short-Range Missile]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu: Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Asia&apos;s Naval Procurement Sees Major Growth]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific nations are modernizing their surface and underwater naval capabilities by buying stealthy warships, attack submarines, patrol vessels, sensors, radars, missiles and unmanned systems.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[For Obama&apos;s Agenda, an &apos;October Surprise&apos; in May]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A slew of politically charged scandals threatens to derail a sweeping fiscal deal with Senate Republicans that would address sequestration&apos;s defense budget cuts.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Several DoD Personnel Moves Expected Soon]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130517/DEFREG02/305170022/1001/DEFSECT</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The White House is working to fill several high-level Pentagon posts as incumbents prepare to step down as the Obama administration begins a second term amid a fury of budget uncertainty.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[French Defense Minister Defends Strategy, Mali Mission]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australia One Step Nearer to Acquiring Triton UAV]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The acquisition of Northrop Grumman&apos;s MQ-4C Triton unmanned air vehicle took a step closer yesterday with the Australian government announcement that it would issue a letter of request to the US for pricing and availability data.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[India Mulls Stationing of Ground Forces in Afghanistan]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Report: France To Buy US Reaper Drones for Mali]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the US Air Force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, the Air et Cosmos specialist magazine reported Friday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[France Expects 1st Batch of Reapers Soon]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[NZ Budget Holds Steady, Air Force Gains]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[New Zealand&apos;s spending on defense is little changed from the NZ $2.9 billion (then US $2.2 billion) for 2012-2013 to NZ $2.87 billion for 2013-2014.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Sens: Pentagon Attempting to &apos;Rewrite the Constitution&apos;]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[US senators blasted senior Pentagon legal officials Thursday for suggesting the 2001-passed measure authorizing the war on al-Qaida would justify American ground operations anywhere in the world.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[CEOs Talk Sequestration Challenges]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Faced with a new budget reality, industry and the Pentagon are looking for ways to streamline contracting and pursue new innovations, a panel of CEOs said today.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Taiwan Stages Exercise As Philippines Row Continues]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Taiwan held a military exercise Thursday in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies from Manila.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Targeted Killing: CIA&apos;s Fleet of 80+ UAVs Unlikely To Be Transferred To Military]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Iran, US Senators Hear Mixed Messages from Administration]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Licensing Issues Cancel German Euro Hawk Procurement]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Top Executive Confident Issues Fixable]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Aging SOF Helicopters Will Have To Fly for Decades More]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In the chaotic September 2009 rescue of New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell in northern Afghanistan by British special forces who were ferried to the mission by US special operations aircraft, Farrell&#39;s interpreter, Sultan Munadi, and a British paratrooper were killed.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US House Democrats: Defense Sequester Hurting Economy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Going Dark: SOUTHCOM, Where Modern ISR Was Born, Is Hoping for Assets]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In 1989, two small U.S. planes took off in Colombia&apos;s expansive Aburra Valley, the first flights of a surveillance operation that would ultimately reshape the American way of war.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Is A Billion-Dollar Border Security Program Finally Due?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security has taken a positive step in one of the longer running procurement sagas of recent years, issuing downselect notices to several contractors to compete in the next phase of a controversial border security program, source]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[X-47 Unmanned Aircraft Makes Successful Launch]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan overtaxes US contractors, IG finds]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan has slapped US-funded contractors working on reconstruction efforts with nearly $1 billion in taxes since 2008, often in spite of clear tax exemption agreements, a government watchdog has found.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Germany axes Euro Hawk drone program]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Germany has canceled a planned &apos;Euro Hawk&apos; drone program over fears that European authorities will not certify them, a defense ministry source said Tuesday after reported European safety concerns.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[India To Add Navy Bases, Expand Coastline Security Sensors]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Addressing the top commanders of the Indian Navy on Tuesday, Defence Minister A.K. Antony announced that additional naval bases and air stations are required to extend the Navy&apos;s reach.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Biometrics: A New Intelligence Discipline]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Reduces Defense Cuts by 1 Billion Shekels]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his government to pass, by close of business Monday, a 2013-2014 budget that includes some US $14.7 billion in defense spending, nearly $1 billion less than 2012 levels but $280 million more than cuts prescribed by the Israeli Treasury.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Washington&apos;s Pacific Pivot Seen in Aussie&apos;s Appointment to US Army]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The appointment of an Australian to a senior position in the command of the US Army&apos;s 79,000-strong contingent in Asia-Pacific reflects Washington&apos;s strategic pivot to the region, officials said Monday.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon could save double the amount of cuts mandated under sequestration and avoid eroding its combat power, says a report released Monday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lockheed Names New F-16/F-22 Program Head]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The United States has moved military forces closer to Libya since the Benghazi attack so they will be ready to respond to threats against diplomatic personnel, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[NATO Gets New Supreme Commander]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Russian-Made Yemeni Military Jet Crashes in Sanaa]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[North Korea Replaces Hawkish Defense Minister]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[North Korea has replaced its hawkish armed forces minister after just six months in the job &#45; the latest in a long line of top military reshuffles by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[&apos;Fragile&apos; Pursuit of a Grand Bargain]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The onetime target of early August for passing sweeping fiscal legislation that once filled US Senate corridors is slowly being replaced by a consensus that striking a &apos;grand bargain&apos; could prove difficult.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[MBDA Positioned to Score Big in 3 Deals]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[European missile maker MBDA looks like it will score three out of three major government deals for a longer range Aster air defense system, an anti-tank weapon and a helicopter-borne anti-ship missile.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US: Gulf Navy Drill Not Directed At Iran]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Vice Admiral John Miller, commander of the US Fifth Fleet, said on Sunday that a massive naval minesweeping exercise involving 41 countries was not directed at Iran.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Reckless Abandon(ment)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Despite massive furloughs looming, reductions in troop strength planned, fleets at anchor and air wings grounded due to severely curtailed operating funds, the Pentagon seems to be finding odd ways to dig itself out of the fiscal mess it is in.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Give US Industry a Seat at the Strategy Table]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Reading the history of US preparations for World War II is instructive.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[India Opens Gun, Missile Competition to Domestic Firms]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[India&apos;s Ministry of Defence has floated a competition for gun/missile systems for the Army. And in a first for the MoD, it is asking domestic companies to participate along with overseas firms.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[N. Korea Slams US Aircraft Carrier&apos;s Arrival In S. Korea]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[North Korea has criticized the arrival of the US aircraft carrier Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an &apos;extremely reckless&apos; provocation and a rehearsal for war against the communist state.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[PKK Peace Talks Could Reduce Profile of Elite Turkish Units]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A budding peace process between Turkey and its longtime nemesis, the Kurdish separatist militants, could shrink the prominence and budget of elite Turkish special operations units, officials and analysts agree.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eastern European Armies Boost Spec Ops Forces Cooperation]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Special operations forces troops from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will organize joint drills and set up a multinational Combat Group operating within European Union structures.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Norway Revamps Special Operations Capacity]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Special operations has historically been a fragmented, underfunded, noncore resource within Norway&apos;s military organization.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Canada Renews Push To Buy 100 Specs Ops Vehicles]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Canada&apos;s special operations forces will try once again to purchase a new fleet of vehicles for long-range reconnaissance patrols and urban warfare.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Israel Building Up Rocket Response, Early Warning]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In just six months as commander of Israel&apos;s Air Defense Forces, Shahar Shochat presided over the largest joint drill with the US, led Iron Dome defenders through eight days of high-intensity rocket attacks from Gaza and is poised on high alert to defend a]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Source: France Pushing for 2 Mega Deals]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[France is looking to sell naval company DCNS to electronics specialist Thales and broker a partnership between Nexter and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann in a bid to beat a budget crunch and slim down the land weapons sector, a source briefed on the subject said.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hagel Touts US Defense Network in Middle East]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel praised the &apos;cooperative defense network&apos; being constructed by the Pentagon across the Middle East as a way to keep Iran&apos;s nuclear ambitions in check.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Little Change in New US Fleet Plan]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD Sets Up Institutes for Manufacturing]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon will oversee two White House-backed manufacturing institutes, one focusing on digitizing the manufacturing process and another on producing lightweight, modern metals.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australia Helicopter Project Smooths Contractual Disputes]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Australia&apos;s troubled MRH 90 battlefield helicopter project took a significant step forward May 9 with the announcement of a Deed of Undertaking between the Commonwealth and prime contractor Australian Aerospace and its industry partners.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[SOFINS Highlights Growing French Spec Ops Market]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The French special operations command led for a first time in Europe a three-day trade show and conference, signaling the niche market formed by the &amp;eacute;lite forces&apos; operational needs.]]></description>
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