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National Defense August 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Official: Urgent Procurements May Mislead Are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan teaching military and defense contractors equipping lessons that may not be applicable in the future? Questions like this may become policy-level debates.
National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy	State Department Gets Major Role In Peacekeeping The White House has assigned the role of coordinating civilian and coalition efforts, or "stability operations," after a war to the State Department, which has created an office with an "ambassadorial-level coordinator."
National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Shifting Focus to `Stability Operations' After years of trying to minimize U.S. participation in peacekeeping operations, the Bush administration is embarking upon an ambitious effort to improve the ability of the military services--and related civilian agencies--to conduct such missions as part of its global war on terrorism.
National Defense August 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness?
National Defense August 2005 Moorhouse & Hickey	Contractor-Sponsored Events: Navigating Through the Rules For contractor-sponsored events that involve federal employees, the following considerations should be examined by federal contractors and their government customers.
PC World August 2005 Tom Spring	ISPs Attempt to Stop Public Broadband Cable and DSL providers battle cities that want to offer access to residents.
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Roy Mark	GAO: Federal Systems Security Still Lacking A new report finds major security weaknesses at 24 major federal agencies.
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Clint Boulton	DoD Aims HP Supercomputer at Weapons Research The U.S. Department of Defense tabs Hewlett-Packard as its go-to systems vendor for a new cluster to study how to build new weapons.
InternetNews July 18, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Handheld Crime Fighting Cingular and BIO-Key launched a service to let police officers access criminal databases from anywhere.
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