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National Defense August 2013 Valerie Insinna	Proposed Rules on Counterfeit Parts Puts Onus on Industry If implemented, new Defense Department regulations could leave contractors to foot the bill for the use of counterfeit parts.
National Defense August 2013 Valerie Insinna	Companies Combine Video Analysis Software to Meet Customer Demands General Dynamics Mediaware and Sentient Vision Systems are integrating their video processing and target detection technologies in hopes of saving customers time and money.
National Defense August 2013 Valerie Insinna	Marine Corps Seeking New Vehicle for Aircraft Rescue Oshkosh Defense -- which manufactured the P-19 fleet currently used by the Marine Corps to conduct firefighting and rescue missions at its airfields -- in May received an estimated $192 million contract to build a new model.
National Defense August 2013 Stew Magnuson	Work Begins in Earnest To Create Nationwide Public Safety Network Congress in the 2012 Tax Relief Act granted a highly coveted block of radio spectrum to public safety agencies for their exclusive use, and threw in $7 billion to help kickstart the effort. Now comes the hard part: actually building it.
National Defense August 2013 Patti Ellis	Corporate Ethics Education Yields Rewards Raytheon produces a popular video mini-series each quarter, called "EthicSpace" that, like the Checkpoint program and FCPA Aware, is based on actual case experiences meant to prompt conversation.
National Defense July 2013 Dan Parsons	U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Intelligence Capabilities for Duty Worldwide Business opportunities abound providing communications and ISR gear for special operations.
National Defense July 2013	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers point out that technical skills are needed in the Department of Defense and also request that the defense acquisition process be simplified.
National Defense July 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Time Is Right to Clean Up Defense Acquisition The budget crisis has the Pentagon scrambling to catch up. Many leaders in the defense industry's largest companies always expected the worst, and those firms, while hurting, are much better positioned to weather the storm.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	Simulation, Gaming Sector Plagued by Fiscal Challenges Restrictions on the travel of government officials gutted the Defense GameTech Users Conference in Orlando, Fla. Conference attendance, which aims to increase the use of serious games by the Defense Department, dropped to a third of the previous year's show.
National Defense July 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Unmanned Aircraft Proponents See Future Beyond Battlefields "The ability for us to utilize this technology is unbelievable," said Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. "It's almost like the Industrial Revolution."
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