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• Defense Roundup: UAVs and JLTVs, Boeing has a bad week, #VAEndedTheBacklog nigh, TIME Magazine misses an opportunity to put Jake Wood on its cover

  U.S. Probes Firm That Vetted NSA Leaker Dion Nissenbaum, (@dionnissenbaum) Wall Street Journal. The hits just keep on coming with the continuing saga of former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor Edward Snowden and his massive theft and subsequent leaking of NSA secret programs. Amon… more

• Defense Roundup: Going to war with Marines’ pants, SOFIC, V-22s not so bad

  Sequestration Takes Its Toll on the Washington Area Meetings Business Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai), Washington Post. Maybe we’re starting to sound like a broken record but in another example of the second and third order effects of sequestration’s bite, Washington D.C. ar… more

• November 5 Weekly Defense Industry Roundup

  Army Eyes Better Humvee Survivability Paul Mcleary, Army Times. All that is old is new again as the Army issued an RFP last week seeking industry input focusing on survivability of the Humvee fleet. Proposals are for the Modernized Expanded Capacity Vehicle-Survivability progr… more

• October 2 Defense Industry Weekly Roundup

  Pentagon Spending Shouldn’t Slow Before Cuts, Carter Says Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg. The Defense Department’s number two leader took the unusual step of issuing a memo to the contracting force of DoD urging them not to start cutting programs before sequestration takes effec… more

• September 10 Defense Industry Weekly Roundup

  U.S. Arms Buyer Foresees More Program Terminations Jim Wolf and David Alexander, Reuters. As the battle to avert the precipitous cuts to the defense budget continues, many in the industry and inside the Pentagon are preparing for cuts no matter what happens. It is clear that m… more