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		<title>U.S. ECONOMY: Justifications for Cutting Defense Spending Keep Adding Up</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/03/u-s-economy-justifications-for-cutting-defense-spending-keep-adding-up/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-economy-justifications-for-cutting-defense-spending-keep-adding-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert L. Hanafin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[$60 billion U.S. tax dollars lost]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Lardner]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=136914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This story from AP Reporter Richard Lardner is a follow-up to two earlier stories I posted dealing with the need for cuts to the Defense Budget.]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream Media, the Anti-War Hypocrites</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/25/mainstream-media-the-anti-war-hypocrites/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mainstream-media-the-anti-war-hypocrites</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Scroggins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=133902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some question the lack of leftist anti-war activism seeking to end America's perpetual wars. They are right to ask why those activists are MIA now that Obama is leading the war charge. It's simple, really. They are mostly partisan hypocrites.]]></description>
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		<title>Doomsday Defense Budget?</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/23/doomsday-defense-budget/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=doomsday-defense-budget</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/23/doomsday-defense-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert L. Hanafin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Make Defense Cuts NOT Social Program Cuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Verses Defense Budget]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=132328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is remarkable how politicians with close ties to the Defense Industry love to demonize and label any significant cuts to our defense budget with terms like DOOMSD﻿AY.]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Spending Will and Should be Cut but How Much?</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/18/defense-spending-will-and-should-be-cut-but-how-much/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=defense-spending-will-and-should-be-cut-but-how-much</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert L. Hanafin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=131568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As gridlock and debate recently raged over debt ceilings and how and where to cut the federal budget a band-aide was applied that raised the U.S. debt ceiling for now.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/24/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-251/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-251</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=75763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 065-11 USSOCOM L-3 Global Communications Solutions of Victor, N.Y., was awarded a modification to increase the contract ceiling by $40,000,000 to a new not-to-exceed amount of $157,000,000. This is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity firm-fixed price contract for procurement and sustainment of Special Operations Forces deployable node-medium very small aperture terminal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/21/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-250/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-250</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/21/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-250/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=74775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 055-11 NAVY The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $1,529,224,045 modification to definitize the previously awarded advance acquisition P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) Low Rate Initial Production I contract (N00019-09-C-0022) to a fixed-price-incentive-firm contract. This modification provides for the procurement of six P-8A MMA and associated spares, support equipment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/20/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-249/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-249</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/20/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-249/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=74421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 052-11 AIR FORCE Goodrich Corporation, Surveillance &#38; Reconnaissance Systems of Chelmsford, Mass. was awarded a $71,885,232 contract which will provide five dual band-110 Pod, two datalink upgrades to existing pods, two fixed ground stations, one mobile ground station, four ground station datalink receiver kits, initial spares, technical manuals, minimal initial engineering support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/19/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-248/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-248</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/19/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-248/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=74154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 048-11 NAVY CAE USA, Inc., Tampa, Fla., is being awarded a $43,543,031 firm-fixed-price contract to design, fabricate, install and test one MH-60R Tactical Operational Flight Trainer and one MH-60R/S Tactical Operational Flight Trainer. Work will be performed in Tampa, Fla. (42 percent); Lexington Park, Md. (35 percent); Salt Lake City, Utah (9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/14/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-246/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-246</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=73134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 036-11 ARMY The Boeing Company, Defense, Space &#38; Security, Mesa, Ariz., was awarded a $190,239,373 firm-fixed-price contract Jan. 12, 2011. The award will provide for the remanufacture of 72 AH-64A aircraft into AH-64D aircraft along with one Longbow Crew Trainer. Work will be performed in Mesa, Ariz., with an estimated completion date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/13/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-245/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-245</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/13/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-245/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=72986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 033-11 NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Mission Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., is being awarded an $83,815,466 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to design and manufacture hardware for the Acoustic Rapid Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) system improvement and integration program. The contract provides funding for the development and production of the A-RCI and common acoustics processing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/30/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-236/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-236</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/30/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-236/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=70088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1188-10 NAVY The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $69,098,221 delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00383-06-D-001J) for the procurement of integrated logistics support, for the F/A-18 Integrated Readiness Support Team Program. The tasks include in-service engineering, information systems, technical data, support equipment engineering, automated maintenance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/29/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-235/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-235</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/29/u-s-department-of-defense-announces-latest-contract-awards-235/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1184-10 NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive contract for the fiscal 2010-2015 block buy of Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The fiscal 2010 LCS Flight 0+ ship award amount is $436,852,639. There are additional line items totaling $54,742,639 for technical data package, core class services, provisioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1183-10 AIR FORCE Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., was awarded a $272,552,404 contract modification to provide for 30 F117-PW-100 engines, spare engines, and associated data for the C-17 aircraft. At this time, the entire amount has been obligated. ASC/WNWK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8750-11-C-0045). ARMY The [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1179-10 NAVY Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., is being awarded a $494,257,945 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Trident II, D5 guidance system tactical engineering support and guidance applications program, and life extension development. Work will be performed in Cambridge, Mass. (82 percent); Pittsfield, Mass. (11 percent); Clearwater, Fla. (2 percent); and [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1177-10 ARMY DynCorp International, LLC, Falls Church, Va., was awarded on Dec. 20 a $1,043,726,525 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for specialized training and mentoring services for the government of Afghanistan, and provide logistics and life support components for 14 training facilities in Afghanistan. Work will be performed in Afghanistan with [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1173-10 NAVY Maritime Helicopter Support Co., Woodbridge, Va., is being awarded a $1,408,576,709 firm-fixed-price performance based logistics contract for repair of various line items for the SH-60B, SH-60F, HH-60H, MH-60R, and MH-60S helicopter systems and components. This contract contains a four-year period of performance and does not contain a provision for option [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1171-10 NAVY Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $486,045,178 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract (N00019-09-D-0025) for the procurement of up to 99 litening pods; and 241 upgrade kits and associated repair support for AV-8B (domestic and allied), F/A-18A+/C/D, EA-6B, A-10, F-15, F-16, and [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No. 1015-10 CONTRACTS:  AIR FORCE                 Tiax, LLC, Lexington, Mass., was awarded a maximum $99,446,650 contract which will award the systems development and demonstration of the integrated aircrew ensembles.  It will also include options for low rate initial production, production tooling, and full rate production.  At this time, $1,000,000 has been obligated.  ASC/WNU, Wright Patterson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Deepens How Long Has XMRV and SAIC Been Involved?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movement on New Retrovirus is Rapid! Mystery Deepens on XMRV Now SAIC Shows Involvement [Federal Register: August 27, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 166)] [Notices] [Page 52758-52760] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr27au10-66] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing AGENCY: National Institutes [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanira Farray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No. 730-10 August 17, 2010 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; CONTRACTS NAVY JLG Industries, Inc., McConnellsburg, Pa., is being awarded a $40,373,200 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the purchase of up to 280 Extendable Boom Fork Lifts (EFBL) and associated training. The EBFL is a four-wheel drive, rubber-tired forklift with two-wheel, four-wheel and crab steering and is capable of moving all [...]]]></description>
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