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National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	Pentagon Seeks Joint Doctrine, Training for Personnel Recovery Despite accounting for each and every missing soldier in the Iraq war the combat search and rescue community is stretched thin and grappling with gaps ranging from policy to training.
National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	Allies Essential in Personnel Recovery While Pentagon officials acknowledge that it is critical to work with coalition partners and allies to rescue and recover isolated troops in combat, the facts indicate feeble movement in that direction.
National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	Pentagon Still Undecided on Policies to Protect Contractors As contractors increasingly fall in the cross hairs of insurgents in Iraq, the Defense Department is struggling to figure out how to account for them, provide for their security and, if necessary, rescue them.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Should Unmanned Combat Aircraft Be Piloted Only by Fighter Pilots? As more unpiloted aircraft continue to populate the battlefield, a debate is brewing within the Defense Department as to whether these vehicles should be operated only by certified pilots.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Services Sign Off on Common Procedures for Close-Air Support In an effort to reduce the risk of friendly fire and make close-air support more helpful to ground troops, U.S. military aviators from all branches of the armed forces are now required to follow common guidelines.
National Defense November 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Industry Responds to New Security Environment The sweeping changes seen in the military and national security posture of the United States in recent years will have far-reaching implications, particularly for those in the business of defense.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	U.S. Central Command Naval Chief Foresees More Volatility in the Region While naval forces under U.S. Central Command remain primarily focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, commanders are concerned about emerging threats that could further destabilize the Middle East.
National Defense November 2004 Harold Kennedy	WMD Defense Lacks Unified Command-Control Structure The Defense Department has assigned to multiple units the job of protecting the United States against attacks by weapons of mass destruction. These agencies, however, lack a central command and control structure.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Prepared to Defend Space-Based Radar in 2006 Budget Supporters of the Pentagon's efforts to deploy a network of surveillance satellites are working to mend fences with critics on Capitol Hill and to restore the credibility of the project after it took a beating in last year's budget.
InternetNews October 19, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Powell Calls for Federal VoIP Rule The federal government must have regulatory authority over VoIP if the technology is to develop quickly and uniformly in the United States, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said today.
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