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DARPA floats crowdsourcing to develop amphibious vehicle

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking into whether open collaboration can produce a design for a Marine Corps amphibious vehicle.

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Marines: Osprey aircraft crash due to pilot error

Marine Corps investigation has concluded that operator error caused the deadly April crash of an MV-22 Osprey aircraft in Morocco.

Tags: DoD , MV-22 Ospery , Bell Boeing

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DoD cutting back on use of live animals for surgery training

Both the Defense Department and animal right activists hope to reduce or end the use of 6,000 live animals a year for trauma surgery training.

Tags: DoD Report , Navy , surgery training , cut suits , Federal Drive , Marine Corps Times

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Budget-and-tax impasse threatens troops, economy

Tags: Congress , budget , tax cuts , DoD , Army , Navy , Air Force , Ashton Carter , Jeff Zients , Steny Hoyer , John Boehner

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Joint Chiefs: Looming cuts would 'hollow' military

Tags: DoD , Leon Panetta , Congress , budget , Ray Odierno , Navy , Air Force , Harry Reid , Buck McKeon , DoD Report , sequestration

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Military branches refine cyber roles

Two years after U.S. Cyber Command became operational, the military services that provide its cyber forces are beginning to more tightly define their respective responsibilities in the joint cyber environment. Gen. Keith Alexander issued a memo recently giving each of the services a lead cyber role for specific geographic areas of the world.

Tags: DoD , Congress , cybersecurity , Cyber Command , Keith Alexander , Army , Navy , Air Force , Rhett Hernandez , Suzanne Vautrinot , Michael Rogers , Mac Thornberry , Jared Serbu

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Marine Corps creates law enforcement battalions

The Marine Corps has created its first law enforcement battalions _ a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling security forces in allied nations.

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Marine base camp construction lauded for safety milesone

More than one million man hours have gone into building a new Naval Hospital at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton without any "DART" incidents. That means there have been no injuries severe enough to workers to cause them days away from work, restriction of their work activities or transfer to a another type of work because of injury. The Marine Corps calls it a "safety milestone."

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House backs military sports sponsorships

NASCAR and bass fishing can count on the military to keep the sponsorship money coming.

Tags: Congress , Army , Jack Kingston , Betty McCollum , NASCAR , DoD , National Guard ,

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Navy, Marine Corps consolidate Microsoft purchases

The Department of the Navy has signed a deal with the Microsoft that would consolidate nearly 30 different licensing arrangements with the world's largest software maker into one agreement.

Tags: Navy , Terry Halvorsen , Microsoft , Sean Stackley , Tim Solms , management , technology , DoD , DoD Report

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