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National Defense May 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Faces Fiscal Churn Beyond 2015 The defense sector breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act earlier this year. The respite, however, has been short lived.
National Defense May 2014 Stew Magnuson	DHS Science and Technology Directorate to Focus on Arctic Region as Ice Recedes With the polar ice in the Arctic receding more quickly in summer months, the Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate is turning its attention to the region.
National Defense May 2014 Stew Magnuson	Pallet Security Wraps for Airliners Receive DHS Seal of Approval Jeff Garfinkle, president of Sentina Corp., had previously worked on a product to wrap shipping pallets. He wondered once they had been screened, how security personnel could ensure that they had not been tampered with.
National Defense May 2014 Stew Magnuson	New Cyber Hygiene Campaign Seeks to Curtail Attacks The Center for Internet Security and the Council on CyberSecurity, working with the Department of Homeland Security, the National Governors Association and the Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council launched the Cyber Hygiene Campaign in April.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 10, 2014	Obama Policies Reshape Pharma Marketing Health reform initiatives promote transparency, challenge reimbursement, writes Jill Wechsler.
National Defense May 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Should the Pentagon Rescue Ailing Suppliers? It is an inevitable consequence of plunging budget cycles that suppliers go out of business, and the Pentagon typically has favored a laissez-faire industrial policy even though the defense sector is far from a free market.
Chemistry World April 9, 2014 Emma Stoye	Anadarko agrees $5bn clean-up settlement Anadarko Petroleum has agreed to pay $5.15 billion to clean up areas affected by hazardous waste pollution, settling a legal dispute between Kerr-McGee and a trust representing the US government, state governments and thousands of citizens.
HBS Working Knowledge April 9, 2014 Carmen Nobel	A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation Karen Mills left her post as SBA Administrator for a joint fellowship at Harvard to tackle a question she's faced her whole career: How can the United States drive innovation and turn it into jobs?
National Defense May 2014 Dan Parsons	Special Operations a Valuable Tool In Dealing With Bloody African Conflicts Deploying small numbers of specially trained troops, namely Army Special Operations Forces that are well versed in supporting indigenous troops, can pay dividends, said Michael D. Lumpkin, assistant secretary of defense.
National Defense May 2014 Stew Magnuson	Officials Can See End of the Long Road to Export Reform For the past two years, federal officials have been methodically revising the lists of U.S. defense technologies that require special export licenses.
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