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National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry and Government Butt Heads Over Weapons Maintenance Contracts Repairing and maintaining decades-old inventory has been big business for the defense industry, and will continue to be despite funding cuts that will hit the Pentagon over the next several years.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	A Fresh Perspective on Government Waste Amid the screaming and gnashing of teeth over the looming cuts is the inconvenient reality that government -- and the Pentagon more than any other agency -- is bloated and now might be an opportune time to put it on a crash diet.
National Defense March 2013	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on new soldier weapons, countering pirates at sea, and clarify the history of World War II.
National Defense March 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	DoD Needs a Real Budget, Not a Partial Fix As the budget standoff continues on Capitol Hill, it is almost certain that sequester soon will be upon the nation. Automatic, across-the-board budget cuts will affect discretionary spending government wide. But everyone wonders how it will all be sorted out.
National Defense March 2013 Stew Magnuson	Defense, Intel Communities Wrestle With the Promise and Problems of 'Big Data' For some intelligence analysts, the glut of data coming from multiple sources is an overwhelming problem. There just aren't enough hours in the day to sift through all the potentially valuable information.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Defense Department to Wring Savings From Its Info-Tech Buys Although the Defense Department continues to pour funding into information technology initiatives, contractors may find the pool of money shrinking over the next five years.
National Defense March 2013 Dan Parsons	Marine Corps Struggles With Sea-Based Supply Lines Modern ship-to-shore invasions rely on smaller forces that wade ashore then draw supplies and ammunition from a ship. A large portion of the force, including leadership, has little experience with "ship-to-objective" scenarios where supplies and command and control remain at sea.
National Defense March 2013 Dan Parsons	Robots Set to Take On Marines' Logistical Heavy Lifting The next time Marines storm ashore, they could be accompanied by a menagerie of autonomous robots, which some service leaders see as the answer to some tricky logistical challenges.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Vendor Plans to Launch Commercial Laser Satellite System Two of the U.S. military's long-standing communications problems could be solved if a new company manages to get its proposed laser-based satellite system off the ground.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Companies Introduce New Software to Defeat Suicide Bombers The military continues to invest in behavior prediction software that can alert defense and law enforcement agencies to a terrorist threat in real time.
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