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		<title>U.S. Still Grappling with Human Trafficking by War Zone Contractors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressional hearings and recently-introduced legislation have put the spotlight on the issue of U.S. taxpayer-funded labor trafficking, and the abuse of third-country nationals overseas by U.S. military contractors. One of the leading associations of U.S. overseas contractors has devoted the latest issue of its journal to the topic of trafficking – a sign that the contractor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=73820&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: About That F-35 Audit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Battleland broke the news that the Pentagon watchdog is chewing over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. We&#8217;ve now got some more details from the Department of Defense Inspector General: I asked why the audit, and why now. The IG spokeswoman told me: &#8220;As part of its oversight mission, the DoD IG [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=68493&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise! Pentagon Watchdog Checking Out F-35 Program</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/02/surprise-pentagon-watchdog-checking-out-f-35-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Defense Inspector General&#8217;s March newsletter contains this nugget: Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) Quality Assurance Assessment. The objective of this assessment is to assess the quality management system for the Joint Strike Fighter procured by DoD from Lockheed Martin Corporation. The assessments will be performed on-site at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=68260&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GAO: Pentagon Closing Whistleblower Reprisal Cases &#8220;Prematurely&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/22/investigators-prematurely-closed-military-whistleblower-reprisal-cases-2/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/22/investigators-prematurely-closed-military-whistleblower-reprisal-cases-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re in the military. You blew the whistle. Something bad happened to your career. You ask your military service Inspector General or the big Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) to investigate what you believe is reprisal. You’re in good hands, right? Well, maybe not. There are numerous problems with how investigators are handling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=67131&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Brass&#8217;s Pensions Can Be Higher Than Their Pay</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/03/top-brasss-pensions-can-be-higher-than-their-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/03/top-brasss-pensions-can-be-higher-than-their-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[File under: Doesn&#8217;t make a lick of sense. Thanks to a change stemming from the 2007 defense authorization law, retired generals and admirals can, under the right circumstances, make more in retirement than they can while actually working for the military. USA Today&#8217;s Tom Vanden Brook has the scoop: The highest pension, $272,892, is paid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=65632&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look Out, 4-Star General Coming Through&#8230;the Revolving Door</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/look-out-4-star-general-coming-through-the-revolving-door/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/look-out-4-star-general-coming-through-the-revolving-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday last week, Raytheon, a major defense contractor, announced it scored a four-star general! Marine Corps Gen. (Ret.) James E. Cartwright, the recently departed vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined the defense giant&#8217;s board of directors. Raytheon Chairman and CEO William H. Swanson said in a written statement, &#8221;General Cartwright&#8217;s deep understanding of defense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=65440&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are DoD Service Contractors Getting A Pass?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/05/why-are-dod-service-contractors-getting-a-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/05/why-are-dod-service-contractors-getting-a-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama didn&#8217;t mention them. Nor did Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. No word on them by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey either. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter? Didn&#8217;t happen. Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy? Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs James Winnefeld? Nope. Nada. Who wasn&#8217;t mentioned at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=63406&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Respond to Query Only&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/20/62369/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans often believe government bureaucracy often prevails over common sense. This certainly happened to the Air Force earlier this year, when it sought to avoid embarrassment by curtailing its workforce’s communications with the public &#8212; even on a topic that was already revealed in the press. First, some background. Earlier this year, the Air Force [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=62369&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star Creep: The Empire Strikes Back</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/29/star-creep-the-empire-strikes-back/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/29/star-creep-the-empire-strikes-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Air Force has been busy adding more generals. But the same has been happening across the Defense Department, although the overall DoD growth isn&#8217;t quite as striking as it is within the Air Force alone. In a post this afternoon on the POGO blog, my colleague Ben Freeman wrote that: Seventeen general and flag officers were scheduled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=61115&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DCAA Whistleblower Wins After Long Struggle</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/09/dcaa-whistleblowe/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/11/09/dcaa-whistleblowe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Schwellenbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A senior auditor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) was subjected to years of reprisal in violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act after she blew the whistle on flawed audits produced by DCAA, according to an April 2010 Office of Special Counsel (OSC) investigative report made available today by the Project On Government Oversight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=60035&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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