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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.
National Defense November 2015 Arnold L. Punaro	Challenges, Opportunities Ahead for Defense In a world characterized by increasing threats and instability, the inability of the government to complete its most basic task of funding national defense is a disturbing inconsistency.
National Defense December 2015 Stew Magnuson	Searching High and Low for Innovation Anyone who has attended an industry conference lately knows that the Defense Department is on a hunt for "innovation." It's the topic du jour.
National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin	Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs.
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.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Obama Administration To Open Wearable Tech R&D Center In Silicon Valley In addition to the Pentagon's contribution, the new institute will receive more than $90 million in funding from academia, corporate interests, and local governments for a total of about $171 million.
National Defense February 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh	United Kingdom Creating Defense Innovation Cell The United Kingdom is investing more than $1 billion to fund cutting edge defense technology, said the country's secretary of state for defense.
CIO August 15, 2005 Eric Knorr	Don't Debate: Innovate! Companies in China, India, Korea, and Taiwan are courting offshoring work and buying failing companies with solid technology. To remain on top in the tech industry, it is necessary for American companies to be bold and innovative.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Companies See Bright Spots in Bleak Market There are still companies that have the stomach to invest in defense. Some actually view these tough times as an opportunity to win new business.
National Defense May 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Should the Pentagon Rescue Ailing Suppliers? It is an inevitable consequence of plunging budget cycles that suppliers go out of business, and the Pentagon typically has favored a laissez-faire industrial policy even though the defense sector is far from a free market.
InternetNews February 11, 2010	Danger Signs for the Silicon Valley Report warns that the Valley is in an economic downturn that could be very hard to recover from, though signs of hope include a transition to hot new areas like green tech.
Bank Technology News April 2006	In a Flat World, Everything Of Value is Connected Globalization is a fact of life; it shouldn't be a matter of when American companies get on board, but how and where they harness the power of the world's technological prowess, whether it originates in Silicon Valley or Bangalore.
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.
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 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.
National Defense February 2016 Craig R. McKinley	New Blood May Stem Industry Consolidation At the National Defense Industrial Association we are concerned about the shrinkage of the defense industrial base that has occurred over the past two decades.
InternetNews May 7, 2010 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Highlights Future Tech The company's TechFair in Silicon Valley shows off advancements in privacy, file-sharing and other areas. And then there's the Translating Telephone.
National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson	DHS Opens Silicon Valley Office in Search of Innovation The Department of Homeland Security in January opened an office in the heart of Silicon Valley seeking innovation at companies that don't normally do business with the federal government.
National Defense January 2015 Arnold L. Punaro	New Leadership a Boost to National Security The new leadership of the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees will build on the already strong bipartisan record of supporting a strong national security.
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.
Fast Company December 2004 Alan Deutschman	Offshoring Creativity As new funding fuels innovation, Silicon Valley venture capital insiders see India and China ultimately eclipsing America as technology markets -- with local companies dominating.
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.
National Defense October 2015 Teka Thomas	Defense Innovation Faces Hurdles The government's policies today do not encourage constructive partnerships with these nontraditional suppliers that are capable of providing innovative products.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Jordan DiPietro	Silicon Valley Is Dead The U.S. economy needs to support innovation and manufacturing.
National Defense May 2014	NDIA 2014 Industrial Base Initiative The National Defense Industrial Association has launched a new initiative to identify issues of concern in the nation's defense supplier base.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Tim Beyers	Where the Multibaggers Are Silicon Valley, which Google, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems call home, is now ground zero for healthcare and energy-related innovative companies.
InternetNews January 11, 2008 Mike Elgan	Where Annoying Tech Buzzwords Come From What do you do when you want to emphasize the cool newness of something that's not really new? Make a buzzword!
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Mark Mahorney	Outsourcing the Valley Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Silicon Valley. Is it as bad as it sounds?
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National Defense November 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr.	Industry Responds to New Security Environment The sweeping changes seen in the military and national security posture of the United States in recent years will have far-reaching implications, particularly for those in the business of defense.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010	Hard Choices: Betting on China's Startups Kai-Fu Lee, the founding president of Google China talks about leaving fertile Silicon Valley to invest in promising new Chinese companies.
Fast Company January 2001 Amy Wilson Sheldon	No Business Like Show Business Fifteen months ago, when Kim LeMasters, 51, left Hollywood for Silicon Valley, he didn't abandon the entertainment industry. He's now CEO and chairman of ReplayTV, a company that makes next-generation television products...
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National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Pentagon Chief Deals Blow to Navy's LCS The Navy's littoral combat ship/frigate program took a major hit recently when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter suggested the service should slash planned procurement from 52 to 40 ships, a 23 percent cut.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry.
National Defense May 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Faces Fiscal Churn Beyond 2015 The defense sector breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act earlier this year. The respite, however, has been short lived.
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.
National Defense January 2016 Sid Ashworth	Turning Point Coming for National Security The national security landscape has seen significant change over the past five years. The number of deployed forces declined by more than 60 percent from 2011 to the start of 2016, and the Budget Control Act of 2011 ushered in a period of uncertainty.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.
National Defense February 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Industrial Base Issues on the Agenda for 2007 Six issues that affect everyone involved in the business of providing goods and services to the nation's military, homeland security agencies and first responders.
National Defense December 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Mighty Pentagon Can't Deny Market Forces Market forces are such that the Defense Department could be headed toward a future of greater dependence on fewer and increasingly more powerful monopolies.
National Defense December 2015 Mike McCord	Bipartisan Budget Act a Positive Step The secretary of defense and other leaders of the Pentagon have called on Congress to come together to address the sequestration problem by repealing or significantly increasing the spending caps contained in the Budget Control Act of 2011
National Defense April 2004 Tyrone Taylor & Ben Stone	Small Business Division Reviews First Year The National Defense Industrial Association refocused its efforts to represent the interests of its small business members by creating the Small Business Division. Its mission is to focus specifically on issues affecting small business defense contractors.
Bank Technology News November 2002 Adams et al.	Innovators and Ingenuity 2002 How are today's humbled innovators dealing with the pressures of being more frugal, less flamboyant and more focused on the bottom line? We asked more than two dozen CIOs, tech execs, analysts and futurists to examine the industry's most pressing issues, near term and five years out.
National Defense September 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon to Revamp IT Buying Practices But the Pentagon has yet to master the procurement of high-tech networks and information systems, a senior official said.
National Defense February 2006 Grace Jean	Pentagon Acquisition Reforms Likely to Encounter Opposition Radical changes to the Pentagon's acquisition system may be in place by the end of this year.
National Defense October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Fears of the Incredibly Shrinking Defense Budget May Be Overblown A defense industry apocalypse is not here yet: Everyone in Washington is always in favor of savings in the abstract but when they see the particulars, they tend to get cold feet.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground.
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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