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...Supreme Court said yesterday that it will take up a hotly-contested suit over military recruitment at colleges and universities, just five months after Harvard Law School (HLS) barred the Pentagon from interviewing students on campus...
Prior to the Third Circuit’s ruling, the Pentagon had told Harvard officials that the University would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research grants unless HLS let military recruiters use the school’s Office of Career Services...
...away, hidden inside a trade-show booth, operator Bob Quinn chuckled as he sat in front of a small remote-control box. His Talon robot, a product of the engineering firm Foster-Miller, wasn't on an actual battlefield mission. He was just showing off last week amid the Pentagon's biggest gathering for the latest in military gizmos...
Every two years since 1996--when 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and hundreds injured in the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Defense concluded it needed to acquire better protection for the troops--the Pentagon has invited hundreds of select private-security firms to display their state-of-the-art gear at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. The three-day show, called the Force Protection and Equipment Demonstration (FPED), is unique in that the vendors have to put up or shut up: they have to prove that their products actually work as advertised...
Part of the purpose of the exhibition is to speed up a sluggish procurement system. The Pentagon has failed for months, for example, to get into Iraq adequate protection against improvised explosive devices and is losing an average of a soldier nearly every day to those homemade bombs. The show brings more than 550 vendors to one site and helps compress a laborious Defense Department process by offering commanders proven equipment that is already commercially available...