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SECDEF Panetta announces program details in advance of FY13 defense budget release

SECDEF Pannetta announces FY13 Defense Budget Priorities

-- Link to Briefing

-- "Defense Budget Priorities and Choices"

-- "Fact Sheet: The Defense Budget"

Defense Systems News

Panetta's Plan: More Drones, Fewer Troops

Navy will keep 11-carrier fleet amid defense cuts

Late on Arrival: Congress To Receive White House Budget February 13th

U.S. Set to Cut Pentagon Budget 5%: Officials

Restored South African Cheetah fighters make Ecuador debut

F-35 performs first night flight

Israel makes fresh push to perform F-35 maintenance

AOL Defense: Army Kills Humvee Upgrade Program; Shifts Dollars To JLTV

Report: Missouri Senator McCaskill presses for commercial C-17s

DoD Strategy, Army Reset Should Bolster Helo, Drone Budgets

Oman Seeks BAE Systems Bid for Typhoon

Syria Signs $550M Deal for Russian Jets: Report

Germanys KMW Buys Armored Civil Vehicle Producer EDAG Group


Defense Systems Personnel

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Monday that President Obama has nominated Vice Adm. Bill Gortney as the next commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command.  Vice Admiral Gortney, director of the Joint Staff, would be given a 4th star and replace the retiring Admiral John Harvey, U.S. Fleet Forces Commander since July 2009.  
 
President Obama also notified Congress of four additional nominationsFrank Kendall to be the Undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, James Miller to be the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, (Georgetown Hoya) Erin Conaton to be the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readinesss and Jessica Lynn Wright to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.




Defense Systems Video

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In this new YOUTUBE video, Representatives Steven Palazzo (MS), Allen West (FL), Marsha Blackburn (TN) and Jon Runyan (R-NJ), join Armed Services Committee Howard P. "Buck" McKeon in making an appeal to President Obama to reverse damaging sequestration cuts on the horizon by joining them in supporting H.R. 3662, the Down Payment to Protect National Security Act.   

 

The Down Payment to Protect National Security Act would prevent a further round of cuts, beyond the $465 billion already announced by the President, from hitting our military as a result of sequestration and is fully offset. H.R. 3662 achieves the first year of savings required in sequestration through attrition in the federal workforce by 10% over ten years. This common sense approach to preserve our national security has over 30 co-sponsors in the House.


 

Defense Systems Dialogue

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DSJ will be covering Soldier Technology 2012 -- to be held in Arlington, VA from 23-26 January -- the annual conference and exhibition where over 550 government and industry program managers meet and learn from Pentagon, Army, Marine Corps and industry leadership about soldier system modernization requirements and business opportunities to unburden, connect, train and protect ever more lethal small units and squads.