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National Defense May 2014 Stew Magnuson	Officials Can See End of the Long Road to Export Reform For the past two years, federal officials have been methodically revising the lists of U.S. defense technologies that require special export licenses.
National Defense May 2014 Dan Parsons	Export Controls Threaten U.S. Edge in Foreign UAV Markets An Obama administration effort to relax strictures on selling less-sensitive military hardware to foreign countries virtually ignored the red tape unmanned aircraft manufacturers must navigate when marketing their products overseas.
National Defense May 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Administration's Export Reforms Are a Step in the Right Direction President Barack Obama believes the U.S. export control system is rooted in the Cold War era and must be updated to address the threats the nation faces today and in the changing economic and technological landscape.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Ben Ames	Selling electronics overseas doesn't have to be difficult Military electronics manufacturers can gain faster access to the international market if they follow simple steps to improve their trade applications.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Nichols & Ratnam	Obama Wins Praise for Export Controls Overhaul Defense and aerospace companies are giving the President rave reviews for his plan to ease export controls that executives call too broad and burdensome
National Defense January 2011 Scott Hamilton	Outsourcing U.S. Defense: National Security Implications Politicians and labor unions demand that the Defense Department buy American when, in fact, the reliance on foreign suppliers has increased sharply in the last decade and is likely to do so even more in the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale	ITAR Compliance: Ignorance is no Excuse Navigating the labyrinth of export compliance is difficult for many companies regardless of their size. Those who fail to be vigilant may face hefty fines and criminal charges as well as see their businesses fail.
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner	U.S. - U.K. Defense Technology Pact Likely to Draw Fire A defense export treaty signed in late June by the United States and the United Kingdom has sparked debate about the merits and the risks of sharing military technology with close allies.
National Defense July 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Controls: a Contentious Issue Reaching a `Boiling Point' Stringent U.S. controls on exports of military technology may help keep advanced weapons out of enemy hands, but they also are making it tougher for the United States to get the best available weapons for its armed forces
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets	Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Space Programs on Hold as New Architecture Studied The Air Force is in the throes of conducting several studies that service officials say may lead to a radically new space architecture. Meanwhile, getting space system acquisition right is more important than ever.
National Defense June 2004 A. Duffy Baker	Military to Increase Dependence on Commercial Communications The satellite communications industry is bullish about future growth in military business.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Demand for Military Satellites Shows No Sign of Slowing Down The use of space systems in military operations has surged during the past decade and this growth shows no signs of slowing down, according to an industry study.
National Defense February 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Challenges Ahead for U.S. Aircraft Manufacturers The Industrial College of the Armed Forces team has identified six major issues that, if unaddressed, could threaten the aircraft industry's long-term health.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses.
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired.
National Defense July 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Global Industry Key to Defense Preparedness Despite calls for trade barriers and more protectionism in the arms industry, the overwhelming reality is that defense is more globalized than ever.
National Defense September 2004 Benjamin Stone	U.S. Defense-Export Controls: Stuck in Cold War Depending on the critic du jour, U.S defense trade controls are either too weak and threaten U.S. national security, or too heavy-handed and threaten U.S. economic interests. A multitude of supporting arguments buttress these two core critiques.
National Defense January 2015 Jeffrey Richardson	Know When Software Falls Under Export Control Regime The International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR, control the export of software classified as a "defense article." Defense articles include items like complex military cryptographic software and rudimentary diagnostic software designed to assist in the repair of other defense articles.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Embraces Small Satellites As Budget Outlook Grows Dim With the federal budget expected to shrink in the coming years, Air Force officials are already looking at ways to maintain the capabilities they must deliver to the armed services.
National Defense November 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Industrial Base: Active Management Needed In a time of constrained defense budgets, it is important to consider how the United States will preserve critical industrial and engineering capabilities.
National Defense March 2013 Jeffery A. Green	Congress Finally Tackles Strategic Materials Reform With the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress has enacted significant reforms to the Defense Department's acquisition and industrial base policy.
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Space Command Looks To Fill Communication Gaps as Budgets Tighten "Doing more without more," -- the mantra coming from the office of the secretary of defense -- is a challenge for the Air Force as it tries to keep pace with growing demands for its satellite communications.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	Promise of `Revolution' in Satellite Communications Faces Challenges Recently, the Air Force launched the first of five Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft, marking the first in a series of four constellations that will revolutionize the military's ability to communicate with forces on the ground.
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Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman	China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Scott Grossman	ITAR -- Making the Commitment to Excellence It takes a certain level of commitment from company leadership to abide to the set of regulations that govern the export and re-export of certain controlled commodities, services, and technologies.
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Mobile Broadband for Roaming Troops: Pipe Dream or Reality? Soldiers on the front line have little or no access to the Internet and their communication is limited to line-of-sight radios. The Defense Department is working on improving this, but will they succeed?
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Budget Ax Aimed at Big-Ticket Satellites The U.S. Air Force is hoping to save hundreds of millions of dollars by converting three of its costliest satellite programs into fixed-price contracts.
National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille	Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said.
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer	Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck	Expanding Communications Faced with a bandwidth crunch prompted in part by multiplying flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles that are transmitting multi-megabyte pictures, Defense Department planners are counting on a new generation of communications satellites to expand capacity
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	House Appropriators Slash Satellite Funding The House Appropriations Committee in June slashed money from the Defense Department's fiscal year 2016 budget request to fund major upgrades to the satellite networks that the national security establishment relies on.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Israel Pushes New Satellite as Solution to U.S. Space Radar Needs Israel Aerospace Industries has joined with Northrop Grumman in hopes that they can sell time on a radar imaging satellite to U.S. government agencies.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Eyes Deals With Satellite Industry to Fill Demand for Drone Communications A group of Pentagon officials was given three months to come up with a plan to boost the supply of satellite bandwidth that is needed to support the military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles.
National Defense May 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Industrial Base: Plans Needed to Ensure Soft Landing It is probably not too early to contemplate what sectors of the U.S. defense industrial base should brace for a hard landing after the huge war supplemental budgets begin to wane.
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Lockheed Martin launches modernized satellite series Spacecraft in the modernized series are designed to benefit the military with two new signals, improved encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities.
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Trouble Integrating Waveform Leaves New MUOS Satellites With Little to Do The U.S. military's long-standing problem of aligning the deployment of spacecraft with the development of their Earth-bound terminals and ground stations is plaguing the Navy's powerful new communications satellite system.
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National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson	New Generation of Commercial Satellites to Benefit Military Commercial satellite communications providers are in the process of launching a new generation of high-capacity spacecraft that will be a boon for their military customers.
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	`Responsive Space' Office Must Quickly Prove Itself, Proponents Say U.S. Strategic Command was given an office space and now people are are pushing for the office to make good on their promise to deliver space-based services to field commanders in days or weeks.
National Defense December 2006 Shaheen & Geren	Tightening Export Controls Require Industry Awareness U.S. export-control enforcement activities by the Departments of Commerce and State remain on the rise.
National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson	Out-of-Synch Satellite and Terminal Programs Cost Pentagon Millions It is an example of a longtime problem in the U.S. military: a lack of coordination between those who build and launch satellites, and those who develop the devices that connect the billion-dollar spacecraft with soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines.