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Budget War Game Gives Players Freedom to Make ‘Tough Choices’

November 27, 2012 • In the News • Original: National Defense Magazine

The Pentagon has spent much of the past decade figuring out how to spend more each year, rather than less. Military and civilian leaders, as former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm….

Tax Fight Freezes Defense Industry out of Negotiations over ‘Fiscal Cliff’

November 20, 2012 • In the News • Original: the Hill

The defense industry has $500 billion in pending Pentagon cuts at stake in the “fiscal cliff” talks, yet it finds itself largely sidelined in the heated debate. Defense firms desperately…

On Defense, Congress Needs to Change Its Ways

November 20, 2012 • In the News • Original: Washington Post

Discussion of the “fiscal cliff” since the presidential election has focused so far on the type and amount of tax increases that congressional Republicans might accept and the changes in…

Sequestration Or Not, U.S. Firms, DoD Will Take A Hit

November 19, 2012 • In the News • Original: Defense News

Even if the U.S. Congress is able to hammer out a debt deal that avoids sequestration in January, the resulting agreement will likely result in billions of dollars in additional…

5 Ways Obama Can Defuse a Fiscal Cliff Stalemate

November 19, 2012 • In the News • Original: Fiscal Times

Even if the “do nothing Congress” lives up to its reputation and doesn’t come up with a deal, President Obama could still soften the economic blow of the fiscal cliff….