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    Effort to Allow Land Swaps Benefiting Bases Renewed

    News Clippings
    Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 01:00
    azcentral.com - December 1, 2011, By Howard Fischer Saying Arizona can't afford to lose its military jobs, a veteran state lawmaker is making yet another bid to persuade voters to let the state trade away lands if the move helps preserve bases. ...
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    The Impact of BRAC

    News Clippings
    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00
    Virginia has fared better than expected VirginiaBusiness.com - November 30, 2011, By Tim Loughran It’s been six years since Congress approved the fifth (and most recent) round of military Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) cutbacks. On Sept. 15, all ...
  • Article

    Fitch: US Defense Firms Face Tough Choices Regardless Of Cuts

    News Clippings
    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00
    The Wall Street Journal - November 30, 2011, By Ben Fox Rubin, Dow Jones Newswires Regardless of whether Department of Defense cuts materialize as are currently planned in the coming years, Fitch Ratings said defense contractors face increasingly difficu...
  • Article

    Obama Gets Defense Plan to Cut $450 Billion From Future Budgets

    News Clippings
    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:00
    Bloomberg Businessweek - November 30, 2011, By Roxana Tiron Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon has given President Barack Obama a draft of its strategic budget review, one of the final steps before the Defense Department releases the results, according ...
  • Article

    McDonnell to End 2 Agencies, 19 Boards; Dozens More to be Merged in New Government Reform Plan

    News Clippings
    Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 01:00
    The Washington Post - November 29, 2011, By Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Bob McDonnell says he will eliminate two state agencies and 19 boards and commissions and consolidate more than two dozen more through mergers as part of his two-year gov...
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    Study: Defense Spending is ‘Weak Job Engine’

    News Clippings
    Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 01:00
    DoD Buzz - November 29, 2011, By Philip Ewing Pentagon and Hill defense advocates have all kinds of numbers about the economic benefits of defense spending, and the potential consequences if it’s cut deeply: More than a million jobs lost. Ten percent u...
  • Article

    Encroachment Causes Safety Risks in East Miramar

    News Clippings
    Created: Monday, 28 November 2011 01:00
    Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System - November 28, 2011, By Lance Cpl. Erica Disalvo MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRIMAR, Calif. -- Random police patrols have increased on East Miramar aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar due to encroachment by t...
  • Article

    Defense Contractors Weigh Options While Stuck in Budget Limbo

    News Clippings
    Created: Monday, 28 November 2011 01:00
    National Defense Magazine - November 28, 2011, By Sandra Erwin With no sign that Congress is prepared to return to a “normal” budgeting process any time soon and anxiety about impending budget cuts gripping the Pentagon, many contractors are resigned...
  • Article

    A Military Camp Works to Be a Good Neighbor

    News Clippings
    Created: Saturday, 26 November 2011 01:00
    The New York Times - November 26, 2011, By KATE GALBRAITH CAMP BULLIS — Reddish-brown cedar chips from recently cleared trees spread across a patch of ground in this United States military installation, in sharp contrast to the jungle-like growth nearb...
  • Article

    Analysis: How $600 Billion in Defense Cuts Affect Northwest Florida

    News Clippings
    Created: Saturday, 26 November 2011 01:00
    Supercommittee budget failure has officials wondering what will happen here pnj.com - November 26, 2011, By Travis Griggs The deadline has passed and the supercommittee has failed, initiating $600 billion in automatic military spending cuts. ...
  • Article

    States Expect Budgetary Fallout from ‘Supercommittee’ Failure

    News Clippings
    Created: Thursday, 24 November 2011 01:00
    The Washington Post - November 24, 2011, By Aaron C. Davis and Laura Vozzella Funding cuts for school lunches, home energy assistance, child support enforcement, HIV care, Race to the Top grants and other government programs will come quicker than advert...
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    Boeing: You Cut Defense, We May Close Wichita

    News Clippings
    Created: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 01:00
    TheStreet.com - November 23, 2011, By Ted Reed CHICAGO -- Does a dysfunctional Congress really want to do battle with a determined defense industry? ...
  • Article

    Debt Failure Leaves Pentagon Budget in Limbo

    News Clippings
    Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 01:00
    Military.com - November 22, 2011, By Leo Shane III and Chris Carroll, Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers squabble over whether to allow $600 billion in mandated defense funding cuts move ahead, Pentagon planners are left with the unenviable tas...
  • Article

    Expansion at Fort Lee Powering Growth for Area Small Businesses

    News Clippings
    Created: Monday, 21 November 2011 01:00
    Richmond Times-Dispatch - November 21, 2011, By Jacob Geiger ETTRICK -- Fort Lee, the Army post in Prince George County, has gone from a target for closure to what some folks in the area call the logistics capital of the world. ...
  • Article

    Bliss to Trim Civilian Workforce

    News Clippings
    Created: Monday, 21 November 2011 01:00
    Some offered early retirement El Paso Inc. - November 21, 2011, By Robert Gray, El Paso Inc. staff writer Some of the 4,000 civilian employees who work at Fort Bliss have been handed early retirement offers, as post officials work to meet cost-cutting t...
  • Article

    Defense Officials Urge Communities to Plan for Mission Adjustments

    News Clippings
    Created: Friday, 18 November 2011 01:00
    Defense Communities - November 15, 2011 Local officials and their congressional representatives should play a large leadership role in helping communities plan for potential defense cuts, Office of Economic Adjustment Director Patrick O’Brien told Capi...
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    Remarks by Secretary Panetta at Electric Boat in Groton, Conn.

    Department of Defense & Federal Agency Documents
    Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 01:00
    U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) - November 17, 2011 JOHN CASEY (president, General Dynamics Electric Boat): Good afternoon, everyone. It's great to see all of you out here today to greet Secretary...
  • Article

    Defense Cuts: Small Business Feels It

    News Clippings
    Created: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:00
    CNBC - November 16, 2011, By Jane Wells, Correspondent There are still some things made in America. Inside a massive building in Niles, Ohio, furnaces burning at temperatures of up to 4,000 degrees are melting titanium, a lightweight but strong metal whi...
  • Article

    VA Beach Buys 18-Acre Property Near Naval Air Base

    News Clippings
    Created: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:00
    Purchase Part of Government-Funded Program Dedicated to Eliminating Encroachment on NAS Oceana CoStar.com - November 16, 2011, By CoStar Research The City of Virginia Beach recently paid $6 million to buy the London Bridge Commerce Center, an 18-acre mi...
  • Article

    Panetta Warns of Smallest Air Force Ever if Deep Defense Cuts Made

    News Clippings
    Created: Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:00
    Fox News - November 15, 2011, Associated Press The number of U.S. ground forces would drop to levels not seen since 1940, the Navy would drop to the smallest number of ships since 1915 and the Air Force would be the smallest ever, Defense Secretary Leon ...




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