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DoD Strategic Review Spurs Concerns About Defense Industry

Julie Samuel

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

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The No. 2 Pentagon official said he is worried about the defense industrial base after reviewing the military’s future funding options. Senior defense officials told a House panel Thursday that budget cuts the Pentagon assessed as part of its Strategic Choices and Management Review unavoidably will impact defense contractors. Yet they avoided giving detailed predictions on the fate of specific weapons platforms such as the future long-range bomber and drones that launch from aircraft carriers. “There will be (an) impact…

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