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Topic: Military and Defense Policy

  
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  1 comment

High Stakes, Big Bets

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Tom Burbage and his 500-person team at Lockheed Martin went after the biggest military deal in U.S. history -- and scored a $200 billion victory: a contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter. They didn't play it safe; they played to win.READ»

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PERSONAL BRAND   |  Comment

Careers: Personal Branding and PR No-Nos

BY Wendy Marx
Relevancy Score: 93
Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 9:32 AM

During the height of the Iraq war, you couldn’t turn on the TV or listen to the radio without hearing a military analyst make pronouncements about the war. What we didn’t know at the time was that many of these analysts were ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Soldiering On

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 76
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:44 AM

With an honest answer to a simple question, General Eric Shinseki enraged his bosses -- and capped a brilliant military career.READ»

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CONTRACTORS   |  Comment

9th International Defense Exhibition & Conference

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 63
Sun Feb 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Christmas comes in February for defense contractors. Thanks to its enormous military budget, China is the biggest target for the kinds of companies that will hawk everything from battleships to bullets at this five-day fair. But as ...READ»

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F-35   |  1 comment

Pentagon Says F-35 Classified Designs Have Not Been Stolen

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 63
Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 6:23 AM

A national security panic spread through the Internet yesterday after a report by The Wall Street Journal suggested "terabytes" of classified data on the F-35 Lightning II had been stolen by hackers. Today the Pentagon and ...READ»

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OPEN SOURCE   |  Comment

Not Just for POTUS: The Defense Department Wants Some Open Source Too

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 57
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 7:18 AM

We noted yesterday the way the White House was embracing open source principles with its switch to Drupal for its Web site, and today there's news that a different quarter of government is keen to go open: The Defense ...READ»

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AIR FORCE   |  Comment

F-22 Fighter Gets the Axe

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 54
Thu Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM

President Barack Obama won an important victory late yesterday afternoon when the Senate voted to halt production of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jet (seen below). Nearly two billion dollars had been earmarked for the ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

The People Who Win The Wars

BY Michael Abrashoff
Relevancy Score: 51
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM

No matter how brilliantly the big brass plans wars, the outcome depends on the people who fight them.READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS   |  Comment

A Dislike for Change


Relevancy Score: 45
Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 10:34 AM

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." --General Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff From Fast Company's recently released book, The Rules of Business: 55 Essential Ideas to Help Smart ...READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS   |  Comment

A Dislike for Change


Relevancy Score: 45
Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 10:34 AM

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." --General Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff From Fast Company's recently released book, The Rules of Business: 55 Essential Ideas to Help Smart ...READ»

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JSF   |  Comment

Hackers Rob Pentagon of F-35 Fighter Design Data

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 44
Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 2:31 AM

Hackers have stolen terabytes of data about the design and electronics inside the Defense Department's Joint Strike Fighter program, The Wall Street Journal reported last night. The $300 billion jet is the most expensive program in ...READ»

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IED BATTLE DRILL   |  Comment

Inside the IED Battle Drill: How Hollywood Is Prepping Soldiers for Roadside Attacks

BY Alissa Walker
Relevancy Score: 44
Sun Nov 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM

An immersive experience uses state-of-the-art Hollywood visual effects and theme park technology to help soldiers learn what to expect in an IED ambush--and it may save lives.READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS   |  Comment

A Dislike for Change


Relevancy Score: 44
Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 10:34 AM

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." --General Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff From Fast Company's recently released book, The Rules of Business: 55 Essential Ideas ...READ»

BANKING   |  Comment

How America ever is going to pay back the debt-.- Robin Trehan

BY Robin Trehan
Relevancy Score: 42
Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM

How America ever is going to pay back the debt-.- Robin TrehanREAD»

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Sacred Ground - Revisited


Relevancy Score: 41
Wed Aug 24, 2005 at 12:51 PM

Last week, I blogged about the specter of marketing during church, funerals and wakes. A couple days later, I came across this, a tombstone concept that incorporates a video screen. I was sure the issue was dead at that point, but ...READ»

BANKING   |  Comment

How America ever is going to pay back the debt-.- Robin Trehan

BY Robin Trehan
Relevancy Score: 41
Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM

Thomas Jefferson once said, “"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." ...READ»

AMAZON   |  Comment

Amazon's Power Grab--And the Feds Mess With Bloggers

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 39
Wed Apr 2, 2008 at 9:52 AM

I've been closely following two stories that have implications for social responsibility this week. First, Amazon.com's obnoxious decision to play bully and tell publishers with digitally published products that they can only ...READ»

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LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

Own Up and Clean Up

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 38
Wed Mar 7, 2007 at 2:32 PM

"Were they there?” was how Annette McLeod replied when Congress Henry Waxman asked her what she had to say to the Army leaders now that the facts of the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed’s out patient facilities were out in ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  1 comment

Business As War

BY Mark B. Fuller
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

Business in the New Economy is a civilized version of war. Companies, not countries, are battlefield rivals.READ»

Annette Lode
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

A Model for Your Career - George Washington

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM

This is a guest post by Mark McNeilly.  If you’re looking for a model of a successful career one could do worse than to look at that of George Washington. Washington’s accomplishments put him in a class that few others ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

Boomtown, U.S.A.

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Far from the front lines of combat, there is a place where people do the unlikeliest work imaginable. Here is the story of the men and women of McAlester, Oklahoma, who run the factory that makes virtually every non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Beg, Borrow, Stimulate

BY Anna Muoio
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:23 AM

Meeting I Never MissREAD»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Re: Research

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 33
Mon Mar 22, 2004 at 1:15 PM

The Star-Ledger this weekend ran an interesting article about the rise and fall of AT&T Labs, nee Bell Labs. Tasked a decade ago to invent the future of telecommunications, the research wing is quickly dissolving as its top talent ...READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING   |  5 comments

Speaker For Hire


Relevancy Score: 32
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Colin Powell’s speaking engagement at the International Franchise Association annual convention cost the organization at least $100,000.READ»

ETHICS   |  8 comments

Jet Blue: Say It Ain't So


Relevancy Score: 30
Wed Sep 24, 2003 at 8:34 PM

The news that JetBlue Airways has been sued by customers for disclosing passenger information is a terribly sad note on what had been a very upbeat business story. Two federal agencies are looking into JetBlue's admission that it ...READ»

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