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  What You Can Do About The Winter of the Cleared Job Market

  Derek Zeller’s “Winter I$ Coming” outlined an increasingly bleak landscape for the cleared professional in today’s federal market. After years of growth and relative prosperity, the cleared job market has begun to contract. In Game of Thrones it was said that “a long su… more

• Defense Roundup: Navy Yard in Recovery and Healing, Veterans Decry “Troubled” Headlines, Budget Future Still Confusing/Scary

  Service Chiefs Warn of Sequester’s ‘Insidious’ Effects John T. Bennett (@BennettJohnT), Defense News. Last Wednesday found the leaders of all four military services before the House Armed Services Committee testifying on the effects of continued sequester budget cuts. … more

• Defense Roundup: MOH, F-35, big Army cuts, Manning, Hasan, and Bales, RLTW, and more

  Special Ops Command Announces $560M Award for Critical New Vehicle Paul McLeary (@paulmcleary), Defense News. It’s so rare to hear a new vehicle contract being awarded these days that you almost expect a SyFy movie about it to come out soon. Last week Special Operations Co… more

• Defense Roundup: Sequester Takes a Break in August…Except for the Navy, Combat Doesn’t Increase Suicide Risk

  Analysts: Cutting Aircraft Carriers a Real Possibility Mike Hixenbaugh (@mike_hixenbaugh), The Virginian-Pilot. The many angles that come out of sequester cuts and the Pentagon’s recently completed Strategic Choices Management Review are still being examined around the defen… more

• Defense Roundup: Furlough Fridays and Furlough Futures, Danger Zone for Pilots as Drone Lands on Carrier, VA Supporting More Homeless Vets

  Ex-Army Corps Official Sentenced in Contracting Scheme of ‘Historic Proportions’ Ann Marimow (@amarimow), Washington Post. The leader of what has been described as one of the most egregious government contracting fraud schemes in history was sentenced to nearly two decad… more