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It's Official: Austin Is Home of New Army Futures Command

Top U.S. Army leaders on Friday announced that Austin, Texas, will be the location of its new Futures Command.

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The Defense Department's top weapons buyer said future systems must take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial technology.

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The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a fiscal 2016 budget that includes almost $100 billion in war funding for the Defense Department. 

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U.S. military leadership has known the Pentagon is falling quickly behind the technological curve and opening itself to new and developing threats.

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The Pentagon consulted “a macroeconomic equilibrium representation of the U.S. economy” to estimate the potential consequences of budget cuts.

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Article states the nature of DoD and the defense game means strategy and planning may not always be consistent, analysts said, but it’s still important.

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Article says while things look tough in the U.S. defense budget, the fate of the Afghan National Security Forces also hangs in the balance. Afghanistan doesn’t have a huge corporate defense industry to lobby on its behalf, or millions of veterans, or an indispensable global role.