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National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Expansion of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in U.S. Skies Prompts DHS to Set Up New Program The Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate is setting up a new small unmanned aerial vehicle program ahead of the technology's expected integration into U.S. national airspace.
National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Al-Qaida May Have Plans to Manipulate Anonymous Hacking Group Anonymous, a loosely organized group of hackers that has targeted big businesses and governments, could be co-opted by nation states and terrorist groups that want to use it for their own ends, cybersecurity experts said.
National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Beleaguered TSA May Wind Up Loser In Budget Battles As the Department of Homeland Security agency that comes into contact with the general public most often, the Transportation Security Administration has become one of the government's primary punching bags.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Air Force X-Plane Seeks to Solve Flutter Problems An experimental drone will fly for the first time this summer to kick off an investigation into technologies that could lead to light, flexible aircraft that can actively suppress the dangerous phenomena of flutter.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Soft Robots Could Open Up New World of Spy Tactics The Pentagon could turn to tiny soft robots to fit in the nooks and crannies of the battlefield, taking sensors ever closer to the enemy.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Software May Help Analysts Read Between the Lines The Pentagon wants to get to the bottom of what it calls "deep natural language" by creating an automated system that can process text at its most basic level to reveal meaning that otherwise may not be apparent.
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel	Troops Fashion Makeshift Counter-IED Tool Marines and soldiers recently discovered that a pole used to install cable and wiring could be combined with a steel hook crafted locally in Afghanistan to form a new counter-IED tool.
National Defense July 2012 A.J. Clark	Why Government Should Take Advantage of Private Sector's Technology Investments The government clearly needs a better way to tap into commercial innovation. There are available technologies that could be rapidly inserted in defense systems but it takes anywhere from three to five years to see them gain traction.
National Defense July 2012 Dan Ward	Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger.
National Defense July 2012 John Chierichella	The Budget Crunch, Fixed Price Contracts, and Lessons of the Past Although a fixed-price contract guarantees the government only what it actually bargained for, government buyers always want more.
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