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U.S. Navy moves ahead on new presidential helicopter program Friday, 3 May 2013 | 2:32 PM ET

"We're moving forward as we planned all along," said Kelly Burdick, spokeswoman for the Navy office that is overseeing the competition, one of the few for new military helicopters in coming years.
Pentagon urged to stop stalling, start planning defense cuts Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 8:50 PM ET

*Pentagon faces $50 billion in cuts a year for a decade. Warning that the department appeared to be clinging to the hope that Congress and the White House would eventually reverse the cuts, the analysts said the Pentagon needed to focus on factors that drive long-term cost growth, including overhead, compensation and acquisition.
Panetta, a reluctant defense secretary, left Pentagon mark Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 12:59 AM ET

WASHINGTON, Feb 14- On his last trip abroad as U.S. defense secretary, Leon Panetta was asked what he thought of "Zero Dark Thirty," the movie about the intense manhunt and daring raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
U.S. moves to sell advanced spy drones to South Korea Tuesday, 25 Dec 2012 | 2:50 PM ET

*Seoul seeks possible $1.2 bln deal for four "Global Hawk" aircraft. Seoul has requested a possible $1.2 billion sale of four Northrop Grumman Corp RQ-4 "Global Hawk" remotely piloted aircraft with enhanced surveillance capabilities, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement dated on Monday and distributed on Tuesday.