Even war spending is subjected to the same scrutiny that the base defense budget and other spending is.
Mianyang has gained its reputation as a technology center due to its importance as a base for national defense, scientific research and production.
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We have, therefore, a real interest in preserving the American manufacturing base, especially in defense and defense-related industries.
It will require further contraction of military bases, ports, airfields and depots and the defense industrial base and its suppliers.
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This level exceeds that utilized by 95 percent of the American defense industrial base and is vastly in excess of what is currently available to the Soviet Union.
The serious downsizing and disruption of the defense industrial base - including in some cases the likely elimination of small businesses that provide unique parts for the supply chain.
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Clinton and Gore also did much to diminish -- and, in many cases, to eliminate altogether -- the defense industrial base that will be needed to effect the rebuilding.
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Finally, some believe that the dictates of globalization are such that it is no longer practical, and probably not even possible, for the United States to preserve an indigenous defense industrial base.
Cutting edge businesses that I have visited in the financial and technology sectors and the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) have developed their own methodologies that turn traditional IT risk management frameworks on their head.
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The obvious, and probably growing, need for the kind of power projection made possible by C-17 airlifters should compel a careful reassessment of the defense industrial base's capacity to meet such needs over the long haul.
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Never mind that the U.S. defense industrial base is a fraction of what it was in Eisenhower's day n terms of the number of domestic suppliers involved, the size of the associated workforce and output of materiel.
Hacker attacks on Sony, PBS.org, and Honda Canada, fill the news while what is evidently a well planned and executed attack on the Defense Industrial Base using previously acquired RSA SecureID seeds is underway.
This could result in a double whammy for the United States -- adding a new dimension to the threat we face and encouraging competition for overseas arms sales upon which the American defense industrial base is already unduly reliant to maintain vital production capabilities.
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The impact on Boeing is somewhat more complex than for the predominantly non-military supplier base due to heavy disproportionate defense program cuts.
The debate was won hands down by McConnell and Zittrain mostly because they stuck to the topic while the Schneier-Rotenberg team attempted to paint a picture of a power and money grab on the part of the defense-industrial base.
Troops from a logistics convoy had been returning to a base, according to the Polish Defense Ministry.
The afternoon featured a panel of DoD energy practitioners including a Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, current and former base commanders, and other leading defense innovators.
This is a veteran team that knows how to take the extra base and put pressure on a defense, and in the absence of young legs, that's what they'll have to rely on.
The explosion occurred as about 400 U.S. military personnel are moving Patriot missile defense equipment to a Turkish base as part of an effort to defend the country from possible attack from Syria.
He has also crowed about the Foundation's new office in a building at the historic Presidio, a military facility recently disestablished as part of the recent round of defense budget cuts and attendant base closures.
The high tech manufacturing jobs we are creating in the U.S. are ramping up an industrial base that is critical to our economy and national defense.
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Five years of steady decline in defense spending have precipitated tremendous shrinkage in the industrial base and considerable economic dislocation.
Members of the crew were observed filming the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and Iraqi police checkpoints near the coalition base, according to Kimmitt.
In fact, the U.S. industrial base is already experiencing significant contractions in the face of cumulative defense budget reductions over the past five years.
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First, U.S. investment in its own research and development technology base is likely to be significantly reduced as a result of defense budget cuts.
The German Defense Ministry in Berlin confirmed a bomb attack near a base that houses a German provincial reconstruction team in the town of Kunduz, a ministry spokesman said.
This line of defense indicates DeLay has decided he can survive by hardening his base and keeping it active, much as President Bush did in winning re-election.
The U.S. industrial base is already experiencing significant contractions in the face of sustained reductions in the defense budget over the past five years.
Friday, it was Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who promised a full investigation as he visited the base.
Such support translates into a cost-effective way to help preserve an aerospace industrial base at a time when it is reeling, and contracting, due to dangerously reduced defense budgets.
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