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GAO: Careful with Your FedBizOpps Searches

GAO: Careful with Your FedBizOpps Searches

* The Government Accountability Office, fielding a protest by a would-be contractor who couldn't find a solicitation due to a certain field not having been filled out in the FedBizOpps database, sided with the Veterans Administration in holding that it is the vendors...

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Russia Headed Back to 1970 with Strategic Nuke Strategy

Russia Headed Back to 1970 with Strategic Nuke Strategy

* Russian development of a new cruise missile and submarine forays into NATO waters have elicited complaints from Washington Russia has violated a key arms control agreement (the INF Treaty), and could cause the U.S. to redeploy cruise missiles in Europe. Russia has...

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Russia Upping Capacity to ‘Ukraine’ Neighbors

Russia Upping Capacity to ‘Ukraine’ Neighbors

* The Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, Lt Gen Ben Hodges, is quoted as revealing the analysis that Russia currently can't threaten more than one Ukraine-level conflict at once without significant pre-mobilization that would warn a victim country and allies,...

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DoD: Keep Both U-2 and Global Hawk

DoD: Keep Both U-2 and Global Hawk

* Having vacillated back and forth, the Pentagon will reportedly now ask for both its cake and to eat it too in the 2016 budget, reversing the decision to mothball the U-2 spy plane program, but also to start research and design work (about $150 million over three...

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Air Force Attempts Self Reform

Air Force Attempts Self Reform

* The Air Force is trying to get ahead of cost issues by announcing an effort to introduce reforms to speed up procurement as well as to allow RFP responders to suggest alternative requirements where cost savings could be recognized. U.S. * Predictably, commentators...

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Aegis Program Adds SM-6 to Mix for More Ships

Aegis Program Adds SM-6 to Mix for More Ships

Back in 2008, the Navy signaled its desire to its desire to incorporate the "far term sea-based terminal defense" capacity of the SM-6 into its Aegis system, with one hurdle being some ships' radars being capable of handling the sensor data requirements. They then...

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