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National Defense September 2015 Tom Davis	The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Defense Industry The latest Fortune 100 list contains only four companies categorized as "aerospace and defense" firms, down from 15 in the Eisenhower era.
HBS Working Knowledge August 10, 2015 Michael Blanding	New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly The FDA has streamlined drug testing to ensure new therapies come to market quickly. But when it comes to life-giving medical devices, approvals seem unnecessarily slow, according to research by Ariel Dora Stern.
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.
National Defense September 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Congress Should Follow Its Budget Rules Of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will be leaving their positions or retiring this September, none ever had a defense budget passed on time under regular order following the procedures of the Budget Control Act of 1974 during their entire term in office.
National Defense September 2015 Stew Magnuson	Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot Program at Risk of Collapse After eight years of development, the Navy has failed to field a next generation of inter-service bomb disposal robots, and Army and Air Force officers are calling the future of the program into question.
Chemistry World August 7, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US research agencies accused of stifling communication of science US government agencies have put in place obstacles that thwart efforts by science journalists to effectively communicate government science, according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
HBS Working Knowledge August 6, 2015 Carmen Nobel	Obama's Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Threat of Coal? Joe Lassiter believes the smart use of nuclear power is an essential ingredient in fighting the worldwide threat of coal-fired power plant emissions.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	The Way We Laugh: Floridians Love Emojis, The West Coast Says "Hehe" Facebook just conducted a deep data analysis of how Americans indicate when they are laughing online... and the company's researchers found something interesting. The way you laugh online is strongly connected to where you live.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Hackers Who Stole U.S. Government Employee Data Reportedly Breached American Airlines According to Bloomberg, both the airline and travel reservation firm Sabre appear to have been the subject of recent breaches.
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer	Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.
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