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In a Tuesday speech to the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Sotera Defense Solutions President and CEO John Hillen said he aimed to address the potential of sequestration cuts from a broad, strategic perspective focusing on national security. Nearly $500 billion is already set to be cut from the Defense …

In the wake of reports of a potential BAE Systems–EADS merger, the CEO of General Dynamics said Thursday he does not see a trend of mega-deals between defense contractors, Reuters reports. According to Andrea Shalal-Esa’s story, Jay Johnson told a Morgan Stanley investor conference that once the U.S. defense budget …

The U.S. nuclear force’s command, control and communication component is in need of improvement, according to the U.S. Strategic Command’s leader. Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler told the Senate Armed Services Committee last Tuesday that he is uncomfortable with the current state of the network and said the network is …

The Air Force’s Boeing Co.-built space plane recently hit an endurance milestone remaining in flight, circling the Earth’s orbit for a year and two days, Wired reports.  The 30-foot-long craft was designed to last nine months in flight.  The Air Force has yet to confirm the exact uses of the …

On Monday, the Obama administration released a budget of $3.8 trillion with a request of close to $80 billion to be allocated to IT spending for 2011. In terms of information security, the administration is seeking to improve broadly in three areas; improving identity management, shift to a real-time security …