But, with its system-of-systems modernization approach, branded as FCS, moving from the drawing board to the testing field and its first spin-out of new capability to be integrated with the current force occurring next year, the Army is laying the groundwork for success.

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The ensuing pullback in the shares simply exacerbated a longer-term swoon for FCS, which has given up more than 20% of its value in 2011.

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Seemingly, this opposition stems from a failure to appreciate the truly transformational nature of the FCS and the critical role it can - and must - play in providing for America's defense in the decades to come.

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In 2009, the Grizzlies went 14-1 and lost in the FCS championship game.

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Notre Dame is one of just three major-college teams never to have played an FCS team.

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Rather than airing those unexciting FCS games, the network will have a purely BCS-on-BCS schedule that ought to greatly increase viewership.

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Fairchild Semiconductor demonstrated last week that tech firms warning of a relatively weak Christmas quarter can have a decent post-report bounce if expectations are low (FCS already warned in early September).

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The increased number and geographic locations of the new FCs are pushing Amazon further into delivery zones and closer to the end-buyer, thus improving delivery time.

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Last week, news surfaced that the Big Ten, in a move to strengthen the leagues overall non-conference football schedule, would vote to prohibit members institutions from playing Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams.

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