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National Defense July 2012 D'Agostino & Bradel	Pitfalls Abound in Contract Disputes Act Claims Preparing and filing a certified claim under the Contract Disputes Act for payment from the government for performance of a contract generally is straightforward work for contractors and their legal counsel. Yet certified claims are not without ethical pitfalls.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
IndustryWeek May 16, 2012 Jonathan Katz	Lockheed Martin Gives Innovation New Wings Technological developments help cut production costs in addition to new market opportunities.
Fast Company June 2012 Greg Lindsay	Single-Aisle Commercial Jets Get An International Makeover [Update] Brazil, China, and Russia take to the skies, bidding for large shares of the $2 trillion narrow-body-jet market.
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	Visionaries Foresee Radically Different Military Vehicles The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Adaptive Vehicle Make program seeks to reinvent the way vehicles are designed and built. It is looking to revamp and speed up the entire acquisition process, from the drawing board to the assembly line.
National Defense June 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	New American Oil Boom: Will it Slow DoD's Renewable Energy Momentum? The Defense Department has been focused over two administrations on energy efficiency at the national and defense levels.
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel	Biofuels Industry at Crossroads as Military Waits for Lower Prices Military leaders like to say that their aircraft, ships and personnel can't tell the difference between petroleum and biofuel. But their budgets can.
National Defense June 2012 Dan Parsons	Effort to Reduce Battery Weight May Soon Hit Brick Wall Industry and military scientists continue the search for lighter and more efficient batteries, with a renewed focus on reducing loads carried by soldiers that affect their mobility and health.
National Defense June 2012 Dan Parsons	U.S. Remains Dependent on China for Rare Earth Elements The U.S. military is almost completely dependent on China for the rare earth elements that go into everything from batteries to precision-guided bombs, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service.
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel	Military Provides Little Clarity For Future of Truck Fleets As wars end and budgets tighten, the Pentagon has begun trying to make sense of the spending spree that was the past decade.
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