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Category Archives: defense industry

• Defense and Veterans Roundup: Unemployment Numbers, Electronic Health Records, Budgets and Some Actual Good News

  Gen. Sinclair Gets Reprimand, Must Forfeit Some Pay in Army Sex Case David Zucchino, L.A. Times. A long and contentious legal battle including the incredibly rare prosecution of an Army general officer for sexual assault ended with a whimper this week as Brigadier General Jeff… more

• Defense and Veterans Roundup: The Guard and the Army Never Learned to Share

  Are Veterans Getting the Money They Deserve in Latest Budget? Stacy Kaper (@KaperSLK), National Journal. Over the past few weeks, veterans groups have made their rounds to joint House and Senate committee hearings to testify about their legislative and budget priorities. Last … more

• Defense & Veterans Roundup: Big Changes to Military Retirement, DoD Budget is Confusing Everyone

  DoD Budget, Expect Big Changes in Five-Year Spending Priorities Marcus Weisgerber, (@MarcusReports) Defense News. After two weeks of looking at the Defense Department’s proposed budget for 2015 the consensus seems to be that nobody knows what the hell the thing is really ask… more

• Defense & Veterans Roundup: VA Wrestles with Disability Appeals Times, DoD Aces a Skeptical Congress

  DoD Budget Faces Defiant Congress John T. Bennett, (@BennettJohnT) Defense News. It was the week of the budget in defense circles this past week and it kicked off Monday with the rollout of the 2015 budget proposal from Secretary of Defense Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chie… more

• Defense & Veterans Roundup: Budget Battles Just Beginning on Capitol Hill, Medals of Honor for 19 Men

  Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level Thom Shanker and Helene Cooper, New York Times. The Pentagon will be previewing its 2015 budget proposal today and early insights are showing an aggressive post-war move to reduce the military’s size and capability to a… more