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  <title><![CDATA[Intelligence Officials Push Back On Phone Snooping Case]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Officials claimed today that a controversial intelligence-gathering program has helped to foil more than 50 potential terrorist plots against the US or American interests over the past decade.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Welsh Talks Syria, Readiness]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[USAF Chief Defends Turf]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Big Changes Ahead in the Pentagon&apos;s Policy Shops?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[After more than a decade of almost constant expansion, the Pentagon&apos;s policy-making apparatus may be about to experience the bite of the budget-cut fever that is gripping Washington.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Industry Jockeys for Position in Huge US Army Helo Contest]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[If all goes well, sometime around 2035, the children or grandchildren of today&apos;s US Army aviators will begin strapping themselves into the cockpits of a brand-new fleet of helicopters.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[How the CIA Grows Tech]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When scientists at Redlen Technologies invented a new manufacturing process for a specialized semiconductor, they knew the medical industry would be intrigued.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Begins To Define Military Cyber Ops]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Perhaps lost in all the coverage involving the leaking of classified documents by former Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden this month was one development that outlines an exceedingly complex undertaking of the Obama administration: trying to def]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Paris Air Show Takes Off]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[It&apos;s off to a rainy start, but the Paris Air Show is officially underway.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[North Korea Talks Must Be &apos;Real&apos;: US Officials]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The United States on Sunday welcomed North Korea&apos;s proposal for high-level negotiations but said it must first curb its nuclear program and would not be able to talk its way out of global sanctions.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Israel To Seek US-Backed Loan for Mega Arms Deal]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Israel&apos;s Defense Ministry is asking the US government to guarantee billions of dollars in low-interest bridge loans for a Pentagon-proposed package of V-22 Ospreys, F-15 radars and precision-strike weaponry that it ultimately intends to fund with future m]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pentagon Details 2013 Sequestration Impact on Budget Accounts]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Sequestration spending reductions will cut $15.8 billion from the US Defense Department&apos;s 2013 budget, according to a Pentagon report.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House Reaffirms 11-Ship Carrier Force]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[An amendment to reduce the statutory requirement that the US Navy keep 11 aircraft carriers in service was defeated June 13, first by voice vote and then by a recorded vote of 318-106.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sen. Chambliss: No Intel Reform Likely After NSA Leak Scandal]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Congress is unlikely to overhaul the US intelligence community after a Booz Allen Hamilton employee disclosed several highly classified national security programs, says one key senator.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GAO Supports Super Tucano Pick for Afghanistan Air Force]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[GAO Rules Against Beechcraft]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Filling Edward Snowden&apos;s Shoes?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Booz Allen is recruiting a new &apos;systems administrator&apos; with a security clearance in Hawaii.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[LCS Freedom underway from Singapore, begins exercises]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Seven weeks after arriving at Singapore, the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) left Changi Naval Base on June 11 to begin a series of regional exercises with navies of friendly nations.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Russia Returns to Paris With Eye on Expansion]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[While the early buzz on the Paris Air Show swirls around scaled-back delegations from the US and others, Russia&apos;s military firms have seized the opportunity to make a splash on the global scene.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[EADS: $10B Goal by 2020 Now Unlikely]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[EADS North American will not be able to achieve a previous goal of $10 billion in business by 2020 barring the merger with another firm, the company&apos;s head said Wednesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[HAC Democrats Lose Battles on Use-Of-Force Authority, Drone Program]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130612/DEFREG02/306120021</link>
  <description><![CDATA[House Appropriations Committee Democrats on Wednesday took aim at several national security policy issues, but each time, panel Republicans turned them back.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[SpaceX Begins Next Step in DoD Certification]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The DoD office in charge of space systems announced an agreement with SpaceX, marking another major step for the upstart rocket company as it seeks to move in on the military launch market.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Admiral: Global Special Operations &apos;Network&apos; To Be Unveiled This Fall]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130612/DEFREG/306100023</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In September, America&apos;s top special operator  plans to sit down with US geographic combatant commanders to finally lay out plans for what he has been calling the &apos;global SOF network.&apos;]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Navy&apos;s New, Bigger Fire Scout To Fly This Fall]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Navy&apos;s Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle program is undergoing a major change, shedding the small helicopter used in earlier versions for a new model with greater range and payload.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Boeing Gets $4B US Army Chinook Deal]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[US aerospace giant Boeing announced Tuesday it has received a multi-year $4 billion order from the US Army for 177 more CH-47F Chinook helicopters.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sen. Wyden Suggests Military, Intel Officials Lied About PRISM]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A key US senator on Tuesday slammed senior intelligence and Pentagon officials, suggesting they knowingly lied to Congress about domestic spying efforts by a military agency.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Proposes C-130J Sale to Libya]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon has notified Congress it wants to sell Libya two C-130J Super Hercules cargo planes, strengthening military ties between America and the burgeoning post-Gadhafi government.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Manned US Military Jets Will Skip Paris This Year]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The automatic budget cuts known as sequestration may not yet have crippled the US military, but they will certainly change the way the group is represented at the Paris Air Show.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Japan Might Delay F-35 Purchases]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130610/DEFREG03/306100018</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Former Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto, the architect of Japan&apos;s decision to purchase F-35 joint strike fighters to boost Japan&apos;s deterrence against China, now believes cost pressures caused by the recent plummeting value of the yen could delay]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[House Panel Denies $442M of $9.6B DoD Reprogramming]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A powerful US House oversight panel has rejected a Pentagon request to shift more than $442 million within its 2013 budget.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[America&apos;s &apos;Juggling Act&apos; With China]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130610/DEFREG03/306100020</link>
  <description><![CDATA[&apos;Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,&apos; said retired US Navy Adm. Timothy Keating.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The &apos;O&apos; Word: Offense vs. Defense in Cyber]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130610/DEFREG/306100022</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Offensive attack, attack back, active defense, defensive response. All of these phrases can refer to the same activity &#45; using cyber force to stop an attacker.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chinese Voices Subdued at Shangri-La Dialogue]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The 12th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore could easily have been renamed after Shakespeare&apos;s play &apos;Much Ado About Nothing,&apos; as Chinese officials offered little information about their defense and foreign policies on the eve of a summit between US Presiden]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hope Fades for &apos;Grand Bargain&apos; to Avoid Sequester]]></title>
  <link>http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130610/DEFREG02/306100010</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Pro-military House Republicans and Barack Obama, the Democratic president with whom they so often are at odds, have something in common after all. Neither side appears interested in voiding deep cuts to planned Pentagon spending in fiscal 2014.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Report: NATO Paper Warns Of Military Shortfalls]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[NATO&apos;s chief is worried that the alliance lacks military readiness in crucial areas and is urging European members to do more, Germany&apos;s Spiegel news weekly reported Sunday, citing an internal document.]]></description>
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