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A Few Trends to Watch

By Elliott Suthers on October 20, 2011 - 4:55pm

Tension was in the air at last week’s AUSA meeting. Hanging over the entire conference was an impending sense of doom. Companies wondered where their next sale would come from; program managers worried about meeting their sales goals; and the military just focused on getting in and out without contractors bleeding them dry. It was quite a scene.

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A Note to Mr. Panetta.

By Elliott Suthers on June 13, 2011 - 12:53pm

(Reprint from O'Dwyer's PR, 6/13/11)

Dear Mr. Panetta,

This week, you’ll make the long trek up to Capitol Hill to convince lawmakers of your ability to replace one of the most effective Secretarys of Defense our nation’s seen. While Gates will no doubt be a hard act to follow, he wasn’t perfect, and neither were the administrations he served.

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