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			<title>SASC Hearing Sets Record Straight on JSF</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- So now we know. Despite the best efforts of Lockheed Martin and the JSF Program Office (JPO), despite what top Pentagon officials had testified during hearings on the FY 2011 defense budget, the Senate Armed Services Committee finally heard on March 11 that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ha...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Acquisition Reform Backfires As Northrop Makes Rational Decision
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			<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman's leaders hated pulling out of the Air Force's tanker competition on Monday. Having spent four years and $200 million positioning their team to be a credible contender, company leaders desperately wanted to fight and win. But they simply couldn't find a solution to the government's ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:56:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Op-Ed: Northrop Takes High Road and Wins...Maybe</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- There is an undoubted elegance to the position adopted by Northrop and EADS in pulling out of the US Air Force tanker competition. We won, you stole our victory, and now you can live with the consequences, they seem to be saying, and we’ll be damned if we’ll play along just to give the app...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:48:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>French Auditor Reveals Weapon Prices, A400M Details</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The unit cost of the seven largest French weapon systems has risen by an average of 33.9 percent since their launch, according to the 2010 annual report of France’s national audit court, the Cour des Comptes. However, most of the increase is due to large cuts in production numbers prompted...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:24:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Opposing Views of BAE Settlements</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House are shocked and angered by the decision of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to settle with BAE Systems. As a result of the settlement there will be no opportunity to discover the truth behind alleged bribery and corruption in the many BAE deals t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:55:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>QDR: Another Missed Opportunity for Reform</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The one great failing of the QDR unveiled this week is that it does little more than fine-tune a system that is failing to do its most basic job: provide effective armed forces and generate cost-effective military capabilities.

Since 2003, the United States has spent $904 billion on mil...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:11:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Two Views of Quadrennial Defense Review</title>
			<description><![CDATA[On February 1, 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates submitted the fourth Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Report. This CSBA Backgrounder provides an initial assessment of the QDR’s strategy and force planning dimensions. 

It finds that in general the QDR correctly identifies the major security...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:07:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Aussie Navy Lumbered with Sub-Par Hardware</title>
			<description><![CDATA[We are, as the torturous lyrics of our national anthem remind us, “a nation girt by sea,” a condition that ensures that we rely heavily for our continued existence on ships.

One wonders, then, why the Royal Australian Navy and the contractors that supply it have such an appalling record in delive...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:17:55 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>QDR: Thoughtful, Reasonable and Irrelevant</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In general, Quadrennial Defense Reviews (QDRs) are like State of the Union addresses: long on vision and short on practical steps to be taken. Having reviewed a draft of the 2010 QDR I can say that it is the best of the lot. It makes a serious effort to connect strategy to missions and concepts of o...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:52:44 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Dassault Wins French Order for 60 Rafales</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- The French Ministry of Defence on Dec. 31, 2009 awarded Dassault Aviation a multi-billion euro, multi-year production contract to deliver 60 Rafale F3 combat aircraft. These aircraft will be delivered beginning in 2015 with the new active antenna radar and enhanced self-protection suite. ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:13:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>A400M: Where Was OCCAR?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- As negotiations between governments and industry on the A400M enter their final phase, the role of the program’s executive agency remains one of its most mysterious aspects.

While Airbus and EADS have acknowledged their failures, and reorganized their corporate structures and management...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:15:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Op-Ed: QDR Can’t Be What Conservatives Want</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Heritage Foundation's first security backgrounder of the New Year says the Quadrennial Defense Review process is broken: "Instead of establishing a road map for defense programs for the next 20 years, previous QDRs have been too budget-driven, purposefully shortsighted, and politically motivated...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:05:55 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Some See “Death Spiral” for F-35 JSF</title>
			<description><![CDATA[To some longtime Pentagon insiders and observers, the F-35 joint strike fighter program is on the verge of slipping into an old familiar pattern. 

First, unrealistic technical requirements, cost estimates and schedules lead to delays and rising costs. Then, far fewer planes are bought than origin...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:44:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Is JSF Glass Half Empty or Half Full?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[By Loren M. Thompson, Ph. D.


Jason Sherman of Inside Defense broke a major story on December 9 concerning likely changes to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The story said that pursuant to recent budget deliberations, development may be delayed by "at least a year," the number of planes p...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:58:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Debate: WTO Ruling and the Tanker Competition</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>(See rebuttal at bottom—Ed.)</b>

<i>By Loren M. Thompson, Ph.D.</i>

The Air Force's plan to conduct an expeditious re-competition of its future tanker program has run into trouble. An initial award was overturned when the Government Accountability Office found major irregularities in the wa...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:29:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Canada Details Tank Replacement Project</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Renewing the tank capability is part of the Canada First Defence Strategy’s commitment to rebuild the Canadian Forces and ensure they are well-equipped to take on the challenges of the 21st century. The Tank Replacement Project provides the Canadian Forces with both an urgent short-term and a long-t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:32:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><b>Updated</b> F-35 JSF: Whistling Past the Graveyard</title>
			<description><![CDATA[If you don't follow the defense business closely, then you can be excused for believing that the F-35 joint strike fighter is in trouble. The $300 billion program to develop a stealthy, multirole tactical aircraft for three U.S. military services and at least nine allies has been the focus of negati...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:36:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Australia’s Leap of Faith on JSF</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd this week made a $3 billion bet on the US-made F-35 joint strike fighter as the linchpin of the RAAF's future combat force. 

The government is convinced that its bold strategic move to buy the F-35, which is still being flight tested before going into full production, will keep the RAA...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:39:21 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>JSF: Making Sense of the JET I and II Reviews</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The deliberations currently under way on the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program have far reaching implications for the US armed services, the armed services of partner nations, future defence budgets in all of these nations, and no less importantly, the widely marketed intent by the Oba...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:12:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Op-Ed: Alternate JSF Engine Proves Critics Right</title>
			<description><![CDATA[After ten months of testing, the alternate engine that General Electric and Rolls Royce are building for the F-35 joint strike fighter has managed to run for a grand total of 52 hours, during which time the engine has experienced four major failures. The most recent failure, in October, will force t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:18:49 +0100</pubDate>
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