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National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Special Operations Command Plans for Expanded Role in U.S. War on Terrorism The new role for special operations forces would not interfere with the U.S. Central Command's leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Taking Cues From New Administration, Naval Forces Shift Focus to Soft Power The Navy and Marine Corps will be turning more attention to "soft power" missions in the coming years, officials said.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	Navy Downsizing Could Weaken Marine Corps Expeditionary Posture As the U.S. Navy's investments and planning point towards a shrinking fleet, it remains unclear how the downsizing will affect the Marine Corps and its ability to carry out expeditionary warfare missions.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Marine Unit to Deploy Under SEAL Command An elite unit of about 85 Marines is scheduled to deploy in April as part of a Navy SEAL squadron. The detachment, for all intents and purposes, formalizes the Marine Corps' relationship with the U.S. Special Operations Command.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	U.K. Military Spending on the Rise, Says MOD Official Quentin Davies, U.K. minister for defense equipment and support, categorically denied reports about upcoming budget cuts in U.K. military programs.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines to Take Over Responsibilities For Training Foreign Forces The Marine Corps assumes a permanent role in the training of foreign troops. Previously, Marines had done this on an ad hoc basis.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
National Defense December 2012 Thomas A. Benes	Navy, Marine Corps Rethink Expeditionary Warfare Expeditionary warfare is evolving to meet the demands of a future beyond the Iraq-Afghanistan conflicts. The Navy is rebalancing its forward deployment posture, and the Marine Corps is in transition from land-centric warfare.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marine Corps Not Yet Ready To Shake Its Persecution Complex Defense Secretary Robert Gates made it official: The Marine Corps is not going to turn into a "second Army," nor will it have to give up its distinctive role as the nation's 911 force. Regrowing its amphibious roots after a decade of landlocked war has become a cri de coeur for the Corps.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Naval Oceanographic and Military Weather Signal Processing Job Goes to General Dynamics General Dynamics won a $22.2 million contract to deliver the company's NITES-Next ocean and weather intelligence processing software.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	Shift to Special Operations Will Not `Gut' the Marine Corps, General Says The Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is the first major Marine Corps component ever to join the U.S. Special Operations Command.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	Leathernecks Sharpen Focus on Cultural Awareness The Marine Corps has launched an effort to improve the ability of its troops to cope with the complex cultural issues that they are encountering in anti-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.
National Defense October 2004 Harold Kennedy	Friend or Foe? The newest in combat identification technologies are being evaluated by the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va.
National Defense February 2010 Grace V. Jean	Cost of Current Operations Jeopardize Marine Corps' Modernization Plans Current wars are draining the Pentagon's modernization accounts, not just for the Marines but for the other services as well.
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean	More Amphibious Ships Are Needed, Marines Contend Marine Corps leaders have stepped up pressure on the Navy to increase the size of the amphibious vessel fleet.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there.
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines Seek to Recapture Their Lost Sea-Warfare Skills "Dawn Blitz 2011," was a simulation of what it could be like to deploy a Marine Expeditionary Brigade force of up to 17,000, entirely from ships.
National Defense December 2015 Robert Smith	Lowering Costs Through Information Sharing Recognizing the significance of the moment, leaders from all U.S. forces have begun to reevaluate -- individually and collaboratively -- the nation's approach to warfare.
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National Defense June 2014 Dan Parsons	Marines Prepare Modular Force for Future Rife With Conflict Despite a dozen years of combat operations coming to a close, the next decade likely will provide no rest for the war-weary Marine Corps.
National Defense September 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Scottish National Party Sweep Calls U.K. Trident Program Into Question Scots have historically been wary of the United Kingdom's Trident program, the country's sole nuclear deterrent, which consists of Vanguard-class submarines, Trident II D5 ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads based in Scotland.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	General Dynamics Robotic Systems Wins U.S. Navy USV Contract Officials at The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center have awarded General Dynamics Robotic Systems an $8.5 million contract for two Unmanned Surface Vehicles for the Littoral Combat Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Module.
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National Defense September 2007 Erwin & Pearce	While Mired in Iraq, Marines Still See Their Future at Sea The Marine Corps for the past four years has committed its people and assets to the war in Iraq. But as the possibility of a force drawdown looms on the horizon, Marine strategists are grappling with fundamental questions about the future.
Global Services January 25, 2008 Imrana Khan	The New Year That Took Jobs Away Royal Dutch Shell announced that the company is going to outsource more than 3,000 IT jobs to reduce its operational costs, and hoped to save nearly $850 million per annum. The industry speculates that the company will outsource under a deal that's expected to be inked sometime in 2008.
National Defense November 2015 Stew Magnuson	Marine Corps R&D Focuses on Urban Scenarios That the Marine Corps would like to return to its expeditionary, sea-based roots after serving the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known.
National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna	Low Inventory, Low Readiness Plague Amphibious Ship Fleet Amphibious ships are among the most highly demanded vessels in the Navy's fleet, according to Expeditionary Force 21, the Marine Corps plan for its future force.
CRM November 4, 2014 Maria Minsker	Microsoft Dynamics Partners with Thunderhead.com; Introduces Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 The companies will focus on driving omnichannel engagement and breaking down silos between marketing and sales
Military History March 2007 Randy Gaddo	Blowup in Beirut: U.S. Marines Peacekeeping Mission Turns Deadly In 1983, the deadly truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon shocked the nation. Today it looks like a harbinger of global terrorism.
National Defense April 2012 Dan Parsons	Marines Tired of Playing Army Role in Land Wars "We're there to get in, kick down doors, kill who we have to kill and get the hell out," said Lance Cpl. Lewis Rivera, with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade Weapons Company. "Everybody wants to get back out here at sea. Everybody."
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	Corps' Trainers Target `Ungoverned' Areas of World The first element of the Marine Corps' new special-operations command already is scrambling to tackle its mission to help prepare the soldiers of under-developed nations to defend themselves against terrorists.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Marines Prepare to Fight at Sea, on the Ground, From the Air After more than a decade of slogging counterinsurgency warfare, the Marine Corps is preparing for the conflicts of the future.
National Defense February 2015 Valerie Insinna	Amphibious Combat Vehicle Competition to Heat Up In its efforts to replace the 30-year-old amphibious assault vehicle, the Marine Corps has traversed a long and bumpy road.
National Defense October 2013 Dan Parsons	Commitment to Swimming Vehicle Throws Off Marines' Tight Modernization Schedule As with other large vehicle procurement programs, Congress is slowly draining off funding from the Amphibious Combat Vehicle as Marine Corps officials continue to push off a decision on how it will develop it.
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck	Marines Unveiling Two New Games The Marine Corps is adapting two commercial video games---one a first-person-shooter and the other a platoon level strategy game---for training purposes.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis.
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons	Amphibious Combat Vehicle Stalled Amidst Budget, Requirements Uncertainty A premier Marine Corps' acquisition program, and one of its most historically troubled, is on indefinite hold as officials continue to parse what exactly is needed in a new amphibious combat vehicle.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	U.S. And Its Allies Get Serious About Systems Interoperability Recent international exercises involving U.S. and allied military forces, as well as police departments and first responders, are finally getting the idea across that military leaders are getting very serious about interoperability.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Rebuilding Efforts Anticipate A Lengthy Fight The Marine Corps, as it struggles to rebuild, repair or replace its combat-battered equipment, is planning for a conflict that will continue for years to come.
National Defense October 2012 Dan Parsons	Frugality, Careful Timing Drive Marines' Modernization Plan For a decade, the Marine Corps has poured money into bomb-resistant trucks and other vehicles specifically designed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan while neglecting its amphibious fleet.
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean	Marine Corps' Vehicle Buyers Turn to Auto Industry for Inspiration Sorry, marines, you're not going to get Mustang convertibles for the battlefield. But expeditionary F-150 trucks? Well, maybe.
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Senators Divvy Up Turf on Defense Issues A compromise of sorts apparently has been reached between incoming Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the ranking minority member, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., over who will take the lead on key defense issues.
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 July 2005 Harold Kennedy	Marines Seek Better Training, Gear for Urban Combat The U.S. Marine Corps is shifting its emphasis to preparing Marines to fight in urban areas, in addition to deserts, mountains and jungles.
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