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InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Preps ID Theft Law Republicans and Democrats have reached a compromise on legislation mandating data brokers disclose to consumers certain unencrypted breaches of their personal information.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Aircraft Missile Defense: The Debate Continues With up to a million man-portable missiles produced since the 1970s, questions remain as to how much should be done to protect U.S. commercial airliners.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Modernization Plans on Track The Bush administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2007 not only preserves the service's key acquisition accounts, but also contains seed money to begin research and development for new generations of aircraft.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Aviation Security Remains Under Scrutiny Aviation security measures adopted since 9/11 have not significantly made passengers safer or have been cost effective, experts contend. They also noted that many weaknesses in the previous system remain, despite billions of dollars being spent to enhance air safety.
National Defense April 2006 Harold Kennedy	Marines Struggle to Begin Rebuilding Force in `07 The Marine Corps is requesting a budget of $18.2 billion, but only a fraction of that will go to buy new equipment. The Corps will need nearly $10 billion in additional funds to help the service begin to recover from the Iraq war and reorganize for an extended campaign against terrorism.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Plans to Expand Fleet May Be Unrealistic Amid assurances by the Navy leadership that the latest shipbuilding blueprint is on a safe course, several analysts are sounding alarms. Unless the Navy begins to aggressively cut costs from its shipbuilding programs and pump much more money into these accounts, the plan could fail.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra Erwin	Defense Procurement: Hard Decisions `Kicked Down the Road' Will the escalating costs of the war in Iraq and the rising price tags of weapon systems eventually result in the cliched Defense Department budget train wreck so many analysts have predicted for several years now?
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Wages Daily Battle Against Smugglers As new immigration legislation winds through the House and Senate this year -- and lawmakers debate the 2007 budget request for boosts in both technology funding and manpower -- the demand in the US for cheap labor and narcotics promises to continue unabated.
National Defense April 2006 Harold Kennedy	Special Ops Sub Becomes Hub for Irregular Warfare Subs have hosted small numbers of special operators ever since World War II. Until now, however, the vessels have had space to accommodate only a handful of special operators. That is changing with the Ohio (SSGN 726) and its three sister ships.
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