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National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industrial Policy Debate: Should The Pentagon Pick Winners and Losers? Industry executives and trade associations have called for the Defense Department to take preemptive action to protect key sectors that are considered of strategic importance to national security.
IndustryWeek November 17, 2010	Bringing Digital Sense to a Global Enterprise While the world has grown smaller thanks to technology and globalization, it's also challenged companies to tighten their alignment on departments separated by oceans and cultures.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
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National Defense September 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Next Pentagon Procurement 'Bow Wave' Will Be a Tsunami With the Defense Department now facing a precipitous drop in new equipment purchases over the next two years, the green-eyeshade crowd already is predicting a huge bow wave for 2018 and beyond, which could be the biggest one yet.
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National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Fortune Tellers See a Mix of Boom and Bust For the defense industry, depending on whom you talk to, these are the best of times, and the worst of times.
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National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer.
InternetNews November 30, 2009	Microsoft, Lockheed Martin Sign Simulator Pact Microsoft and Lockheed Martin have announced a deal to license the software titan's simulation software - dubbed "ESP" - for use in the aerospace firm's battle training simulations.
National Defense April 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Technology At a Crossroads: Can the Pentagon Regain Its Innovation Mojo? The Defense Department may never become the technological juggernaut it once was, but with the groundbreaking innovation happening in the private sector, the challenge for the Pentagon is to tap emerging technology.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Advised to Focus Less On Stock Prices, More on Customers Pentagon contractors will have to think differently about their business if they want to maintain or improve the financial performance they have enjoyed over the past decade, insiders say.
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National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	For High-Tech Firms, Allure of Defense Contracts Is Tarnished by Red Tape Even in today's struggling economy, the prospect of scoring a big defense contract is not enough for many companies to want to do business with the Defense Department.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Estro Vitantonio	Military and aerospace component manufacturers learn from the commercial market Military and commercial component suppliers traditionally have done business in different ways. Not so much anymore, however. And the changes are all for the better.
Information Today November 9, 2009	Knovel Adds Engineering Cases to Showcase Real Problem Solving The articles, which are written by engineers and reviewed by experienced editors, highlight specific examples of how engineers have applied innovative and fresh approaches to both common and uncommon challenges
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Must Avert 'Points of Failure' in Supplier Base, Says Industrial Policy Chief With the U.S. military still involved in two major conflicts, the Defense Department must ensure that certain sectors of the defense industry remain financially healthy.
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National Defense May 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Startups Poised To Break into Defense Market A confluence of economic and technological factors is creating conditions for startups to break into the government's old-boy network of aerospace and defense suppliers, some experts contend.
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National Defense July 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry Targets $150B Weapons Maintenance Market Operations and support, or operations and sustainment, is military-speak for the unglamorous work of maintaining, refurbishing and overhauling Pentagon hardware, some of which is decades old.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 G. Pascal Zachary	The President and the E-Word When presidents call engineers by their first names, and when they don't. In the politics of technoscience, engineering has too long been ignored, or been conflated wrongly with science.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years.
National Defense December 2012	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers reply to stories about the value of MRAPs and Pentagon procurement reforms.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	Defense Executive: News for Defense Industry Managers Defense Executive will inform senior managers in the military and aerospace industries about the latest and most timely information on emerging markets, contract awards, contracting opportunities and more.
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	War Over Defense Jobs Diverts Attention From Bloated Spending Each branch of the military owns multiple fleets of surveillance and armed drones, creating unneeded duplication.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Engineered by Nature: UAV Designs Modeled After Biological Sources Engineers at myriad organizations -- universities, aeronautical labs, research facilities, and defense contractors -- are studying and emulating biological phenomena in the design and development of micro- and nanoscale unmanned aerial vehicles.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.
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National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Predicting the Outcome of War: Can Science Help? Digital simulations are staples of military war games. They can be used to recreate just about every aspect of combat. But simulating the complex scenarios of "irregular" warfare is one of the toughest challenges that the Defense Department now faces.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for a Gallon of Gas? Two Defense Science Board studies have criticized the Pentagon for not having reliable methods of measuring what is known as the "fully burdened" cost of fuel (FBCF).
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National Defense January 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	DoD Clashes With Suppliers Over Data Rights The clash pits military buyers who want to break up suppliers' monopolies against companies whose livelihood depends on keeping tight control over their designs.
National Defense July 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	High-Tech Weapon Makers Set Sights on 'Smart Microgrid' Market Pentagon contractors are looking to transition their skills in assembling complex weapon systems into the nascent market of energy microgrids.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Business Reaches Inflection Point Acquisition flops over the past decade have put the fear of God into Pentagon leaders who now face the added pressure of having to ensure programs perform in a zero-tolerance environment, and with budget cuts to boot.
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National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess A decade of soaring Pentagon spending is coming to an end, and it is leaving behind considerable fiscal wreckage.