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• Merkel’s Airbus Jets Get Protection From Growing Missile Threat

  Airbus SAS planes used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be equipped with a system to safeguard them from attack by heat-seeking missiles.

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  Bin Laden Corpse Photos Can Be Kept Secret, Court Rules

  Photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse and burial at sea were properly classified by U.S. officials and can be withheld from the public, a federal appeals court ruled.

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  Hagel to Consider Outside Prosecution of Sexual Assaults

  U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he’s willing to consider taking away the power of military commanders to decide on prosecuting sexual assaults within their ranks, a move some lawmakers have proposed.

• Scientists Endangered by Budget Cuts, SAIC’s Jumper Says

  Scientists and engineers working as contractors for the U.S. government and military may be the most vulnerable to across-the-board sequestration cuts, John Jumper, chief executive officer of SAIC Inc., said.

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  Cybersecurity Starts in High School with Tomorrow’s Hires

  Five dozen teenagers hunched over computers in a hotel conference room near Washington, decrypting codes, cleaning malware and fending off network intrusions to score points in the finals of a national cybersecurity contest.

• Ending the Military’s Sex-Assault Surge

  Any doubts that the U.S. military has been unable to address its own problems with sexual assault should be dispelled by a just-released Department of Defense survey.

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  Rumsfeld, Cheney Trade Shots, Charm Podesta: D.C. Scene

  “Obviously, I get to speak first since I was the best secretary of defense,” joked former Vice President Dick Cheney, while introducing Donald Rumsfeld at a book party last night.

• Companies Say Decades-Old National-Security Policies Hurt Sales

  Rob Smith’s Pennsylvania company, Acutec Precision Machining Inc., makes inch-long fasteners that are used in the wings of airplanes. In 2006 he tried selling them abroad for the first time.

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  Military Sex Assaults Rising 35% Bring Calls for Change

  Democratic lawmakers and victims’ advocates said they will push to strip U.S. military commanders of the power to prosecute sexual assaults after a Pentagon survey found attacks jumped 35 percent over the past two years.

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  Obama Vows Action After Air Force Officer Assault Arrest

  President Barack Obama vowed to “exponentially step up our game” to combat military sexual assaults after the Air Force’s top officer for sexual-assault prevention was arrested on charges of sexual battery.

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