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National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright	Army Replaces Half-Century-Old Parachutes For the first time in more than 50 years, the Army is upgrading soldiers' parachutes.
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright	DHS Tests Multi-Band, Interoperable Radio The Department of Homeland Security has entered the final stages of its four-year, nearly $9 million effort to develop a multi-band radio that can communicate across virtually all spectrums.
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright	Coast Guard Examines Future of Patrolling The Arctic The Coast Guard anticipates increased duties patrolling the Arctic region due to global warming.
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright	Commandant Discusses Coast Guard's Efforts to Modernize The Coast Guard's Deepwater acquisition program aims to overhaul the Coast Guard's fleet by 2027, but the project is more expensive than anticipated and may take longer to complete.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Military 'Swimming In Sensors and Drowning in Data' Synthesizing all the collections of intelligence and disseminating them quickly is a challenge facing the military.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Ground Forces Still Want Manned Surveillance Aircraft, General Says While the U.S. military during the last eight years has become enamored of remotely piloted aircraft, the Air Force is rapidly fielding a new manned twin-propeller airplane to monitor battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Struggling Spy Satellite Agency Tries to Right Itself The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for developing and launching the U.S. fleet of spy satellites, is embarking on an ambitious plan to right itself after years of cost overruns and program cancellations.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force to Army: There Are Better Ways to Deploy Surveillance Aircraft Dozens of robotic and piloted aircraft have been deployed to the war zones, but little information is garnered because they are employed inefficiently.
National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean	Trident Program Intent On Avoiding Past Shipbuilding Pitfalls As the Navy begins to design its next ballistic-missile submarine, officials caution that the service must avoid shipbuilding practices of the past that have led to cost overruns and delays.
National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean	Submariners Going 'Back to Basics' The Navy struggles to adequately train mariners to use the technology aboard ships and submarines.
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