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		<title>Australia And The U.S. Move In Oppisite Directions</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew Potter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Both the Australian and U.S. governments opted to stimulate their economies in this recession by reducing tax withholding on their citizens.  This means that each paycheck there is a little more then normal.  The idea was that with this more money people would spend it and spur the economy.  If you remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Authorization Bill Passes House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives passed the 2010 Defense Authorization bill.  It was for a $550 billion defense budget with another $130 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  This is one of two bills that must pass each year for the Defense Department to spend money in the next.  The second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argument In The UK On Defense Spending Will Spread To The U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Labor Government is facing a major budget crisis that has been building for several years.  The biggest casualty of it all will probably be their Armed Forces.  The argument in that country may foreshadow the one to come in the United States.  It is almost a given that at some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oshkosh Wins MRAP-ATV Initial Contract</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002336/oshkosh-wins-mrap-atv-initial-contract/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Army and Department of Defense awarded Oshokosh Corporation a contract to build the first two thousand or so MRAP-ATV vehicles for use in Afghanistan.  This contract is worth over $1 billion dollars to the company.
The MRAP-ATV is a lighter, more maneuverable successor to the many Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Is The Stimulus?</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002311/where-is-the-stimulus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration and Congress passed the &#8220;Stimulus&#8221; bill in March.  Since then the U.S. economy has continued to shed jobs and posted anemic if no growth.  There has been criticism that the problem is the slow way the U.S. Government pushes money out the door with its complicated contracting process.  There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing Down Government Contracting</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002300/slowing-down-government-contracting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Potter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major complaints within the Federal Government about contracting is the length of time it takes to award a contract.  This issue affects all types of contracts, whether it is is buying new jet fighter or pencils or hiring Scientific, Engineering, Technical and Analysis (SETA) contractors.  The rules for a contract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Brags About Local Defense Spending But Did He Influence It?</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002290/congressman-brags-about-local-defense-spending-but-did-he-influence-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fairly typical article that often appears in the local press describing how Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK) secured all this money for his district through daunt of hard work and sweat.  Normally a lot of these are written when a funding bill passes.  In this case Boren is talking about just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Bucks Obama On Defense Spending And Receives Veto Threat</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002281/congress-bucks-obama-on-defense-spending-and-receives-veto-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Potter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On top of the House adding money to the 2010 Defense Budget for more F-22 fighters, the Senate has also done the same.  To add fuel to the fire the Senate kept alive the second engine for the F-35.
The President and Secretary of Defense Gates&#8217; had requested ending these programs in their proposed budget. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Federal Programs Collide Or The Road To Hell</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002261/when-federal-programs-collide-or-the-road-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Potter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Government has a variety of laws favoring certain types of minority owned and small businesses.  One of the largest groups receiving these preferences are those owned by Native American tribes and individuals.  They receive consideration when they bid on contracts and as part of the small business participation as sub-contractors.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supplemental Approved Chock Full Of Non-Military Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama approved the last supplemental defense spending law last night.  The bill contains non-defense spending as well as also saving some programs recommended for termination by the Obama Administration.  The original cost of the bill as requested by the Executive Branch was around $83 billion.  The final version now passed by [...]]]></description>
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