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National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons	Retiring Commandant Calls Oceangoing Coast Guard Fleet 'Woefully Inadequate' Adm. Robert Papp, with only months left in his tenure as commandant of the Coast Guard, said his successor must push to update the service's oceangoing cutter fleet.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Israeli Firm's Subsidiary Tapped to Build New Border Towers After almost two years of gathering solicitations and testing systems, Customs and Border Protection awarded a contract for a series of new fixed towers in southern Arizona to the U.S. subsidiary of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty.
HBS Working Knowledge March 13, 2014 Dina Gerdeman	Can We Get To Where We Need To Go? America's infrastructure woes and how to fix them were front and center at the recent summit, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century, led by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Ethics Lapses: Is There a Crisis of Character? Following a string of scandals in the military ranks, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is looking to appoint a senior officer to ensure that "moral character" is given higher priority across all activities.
Information Today March 11, 2014	GPO Offers Free Ebooks The U.S. Government Printing Office will expand its ebook program to allow free public access to titles in the GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, a finding tool for federal historical and current publications.
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons	Wearable Computers Closer to Combat Use With the introduction of Google Glass, rumors circulated that the private sector had solved the wearable-computer conundrum the U.S. military has tackled for years.
National Defense April 2014 David Antanitus	Sailor-Less Ships Soon Could Be a Reality in U.S. Navy Is the Navy ready to embrace an autonomous surface ship operating with the battle group? Probably not, at least not yet.
HBS Working Knowledge March 10, 2014 Julia Hanna	Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley More than a decade after its inception, the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley seem, if anything, beneficial, say Harvard's Suraj Srinivasan and John C. Coates. Why then do so many critics remain?
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