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  More JLTV News

  Posted by Paul McLeary 6:58 PM on Mar 28, 2012

   While at the start of the week there had been just three teams competing for the Army/Marine Corps’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program, by Wednesday there were... Read More >>

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  JLTV's Whole New Game

  Posted by Paul McLeary 6:00 PM on Mar 27, 2012

  Well, this should make the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Army modernization this afternoon a bit more interesting. This morning we learned that Navistar Defense has ... Read More >>

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  Psst, USAF: Canada Might Want a Look at Those Extra C-27s

  Posted by Paul McLeary 1:30 PM on Mar 23, 2012

  You know all of those C-27Js that the U.S. Air Force is planning to mothball? We’re not about to tell the Air Force what to do with them, but our neighbors to the north just ... Read More >>

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  Army Inching Closer to that Big $7 Billion Renewable Energy Project

  Posted by Paul McLeary 6:01 PM on Mar 22, 2012

  The Army has taken steps to formalize its plan to spend about $7 billion over the next decade on renewable energy in an attempt to try to bring down its annual $15 billion gas and ... Read More >>

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  What $75 Billion Looks Like

  Posted by Paul McLeary 5:45 PM on Mar 21, 2012

  Over the past decade, the United States has spent about $75 billion to build the Iraqi and Afghan military and internal security forces, supplying them with everything from unifo... Read More >>

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  Army Looking to Ft. Bliss Yet Again

  Posted by Paul McLeary 12:00 PM on Mar 20, 2012

  As the Army gears up to conduct two more Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) events at Ft. Bliss this spring, and again this fall, it is busily running radios and other communicat... Read More >>

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  Border Tech Plan Taking Shape

  Posted by Paul McLeary 12:26 PM on Mar 19, 2012

  When discussing the Department of Homeland Security’s SBInet border security program, Mark Borkowski doesn’t pull any punches. “We frankly did not have a strong c... Read More >>

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  Elbit's Mystery Sale to Latin America

  Posted by Paul McLeary 4:15 PM on Mar 14, 2012

  When Elbit Systems announced a $50 million sale “to supply Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to a governmental office of a country in the Americas” on Jan. 3, ... Read More >>

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  Hacker "Spokesman" Addresses Collateral Damage

  Posted by Paul McLeary 5:03 PM on Mar 09, 2012

  As the FBI continues to arrest hackers associated with the Anonymous collective while managing to flip one of the movement's leaders to an informant, the Hacktivist world is in tur... Read More >>

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  Southern Command as Poster Child for DoD's New Strategy

  Posted by Paul McLeary 6:22 PM on Mar 08, 2012

  Listening to Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, chief of the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) speak at a breakfast meeting with reporters on Wednesday was like sitting through a re... Read More >>

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