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Defense Industrial Base loses thousands more firms, mainly because DoD is a tough customer

More than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base over the past five years, according to an annual assessment by one of the Defense industry’s…

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Fanning: No political path in Congress for military buildup

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Fanning takes jab at Congress over Army force size

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Pentagon expands white-hat hacker challenge to all comers

The Defense Department undertook a significant expansion of its new crowdsourced approach to cybersecurity Monday, opening its “Hack the Pentagon”…

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Army takes page from DoD with hacker contest

The Army will call on cyber amateurs and experts to try to break into the service’s personnel and recruiting sites.

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Army looks to pare soldiers’ administrative tasks: They’re ‘not humanly doable’

Eric Fanning, the secretary of the Army, said last week that he’s ordered a new initiative designed to reduce time-consuming requirements directed by Department of the Army headquarters, particularly with regard to training.

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