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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Science and technology</title>
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		<title>This robot could be your new shipmate</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/04/17/this-robot-could-be-your-new-shipmate/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/04/17/this-robot-could-be-your-new-shipmate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the hull crawler. Think Roomba robot, but for your ship’s hull &#8212; a remote rover that could keep sailors from having to squeeze into tight spaces or going over the side. It’s a shoe-box-sized robot that clings to a ship’s hull with magnets, a device initially built to scout out the underwater mines divers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A piggybacked peek into the future</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/16/a-piggybacked-peek-into-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/16/a-piggybacked-peek-into-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few lucky travelers passing through Lambert International Airport in St. Louis Dec. 13 may have caught a glimpse of aviation history in the making &#8212; and of military aviation&#8217;s future &#8212; when Boeing&#8217;s Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system hitched a ride on NASA&#8217;s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The flight was a test to check the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look inside the secret ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/a-look-inside-the-secret-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/a-look-inside-the-secret-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knows what mysteries lie inside the aluminum skin of the Navy&#8217;s one-of-a-kind, experimental catamaran, the Sea Fighter? Who can say what kind of advanced, high-speed equipment they&#8217;ve got on that thing, or what undocumented capabilities are built into the ship? Soon, you will. Our senior colleagues Mark D. Faram and Christopher P. Cavas &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cyber-troops of tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/04/the-cyber-troops-of-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/04/the-cyber-troops-of-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a challenge for today&#8217;s high-tech, super-joint Navy: How do you attract a cadre of &#8212; let&#8217;s be honest here &#8212; nerdy, perhaps less-martial computer experts that will stick around to pay back the time and money required to train them in the arcane cyber-disciplines that none of us understand? A 1980s-style movie montage immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCS joins the sonar club</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/lcs-joins-the-sonar-club/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/lcs-joins-the-sonar-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you no doubt remember from your March 15 edition of Navy Times, the Navy has been on the hunt for a variable depth sonar to field aboard the littoral combat ship. As you&#8217;re about to learn when you click here, now it has found one. Just one, for now, according to Defense News; Euro-defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the cyber veil</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/17/behind-the-cyber-veil/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/17/behind-the-cyber-veil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though many details about nuclear weapons are secret, you don&#8217;t need a physics degree to understand them: Somewhere under water, somebody aboard the ballistic missile submarine Maryland pulls a trigger, a big thing shoots out and flies someplace, and whatever that place was, it ain&#8217;t no more. &#8220;Cyber warfare&#8221; isn&#8217;t like that: It&#8217;s both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What WikiLeaks has on the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/06/what-wikileaks-has-on-the-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/06/what-wikileaks-has-on-the-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week&#8217;s worth of harrumphing and condemnation, the Pentagon on Thursday just came right out and said it: The online information-mischief site WikiLeaks must &#8220;return&#8221; the &#8220;stolen&#8221; documents it posted online and shared with several major newspapers, because, gol-dang it, that&#8217;s the &#8220;right thing to do.&#8221; This was after top officials initially said, &#8220;nah, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy suffers its latest cyber attack</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/the-navy-suffers-its-latest-cyber-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/the-navy-suffers-its-latest-cyber-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The threat-warning receivers at 10th Fleet have got to be wailing this morning after the Navy endured its latest computer-network attack: Information Week has included Navy Personnel Command&#8217;s website on a list of 12 government pages that it calls  &#8220;shocking examples of bad user experience.&#8221; (So, wait, does that also mean that Naval Administration Messages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zumwalt whirlpool keeps spinning</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/07/the-zumwalt-whirlpool-keeps-spinning/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/07/the-zumwalt-whirlpool-keeps-spinning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can anyone say anything for certain about the Navy&#8217;s next-generation destroyer known as DDG 1000? We&#8217;ve observed before that with this ship, up is down and black is white &#8212; the gymnastics of fact that have followed it for years make you want to lie down with a cold compress over your eyes. In 2008, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AH-1W Super Cobra links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/02/ah-1w-super-cobra-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/02/ah-1w-super-cobra-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whip-whip whip-whip whip-whip whip-whip whip-whip whip-whip &#8212; twin-rotor spinnin&#8217;, Hellfire missile slingin&#8217;, big-deck gator launchin&#8217; links, coming in low out of the haze, straight at you, with no question about who they are or what they&#8217;re capable of: The Norfolk-based cruiser San Jacinto is the latest warship on a pirate tear. There&#8217;s a petition in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Gun System hits milestone</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/advanced-gun-system-hits-milestone/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/advanced-gun-system-hits-milestone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An artist&#8217;s rendition of the the AGS at work. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead in an interview with Navy Times last month voiced his commitment to providing Marines precision littoral fire support. We&#8217;re looking at rounds that give us extended range and are compatible with 5-inch guns. Precision is going to be key. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PT is virtual, but the sweat is real</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/26/the-pt-is-virtual-but-the-sweat-is-real/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/26/the-pt-is-virtual-but-the-sweat-is-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy&#8217;s top medial officer, Vice Adm. Adam Robinson, isn&#8217;t personally acquainted with the video games these kids play today &#8212; your crazy golfing games, or your yoga things they have now, and such &#8212; but he said last week he could see the Navy using them to help new recruits get into shape. Robinson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the flights begin</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/let-the-flights-begin/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/let-the-flights-begin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    You gotta love competition. When Northrop Grumman on Dec. 16, 2008, unveiled its sleek X-47B unmanned bomber – officially, it’s UCAS-D or Unmanned Combat Air Systems-Demonstrator – the stealth-like sleekness of its batwing shape garnered oohs and aahs from the crowd at its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, Calif. The innovative aircraft could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An airship for LCS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/03/an-airship-for-lcs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/03/an-airship-for-lcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 20:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fire Scout may not turn out to be the only unmanned aerial vehicle that sails with the littoral combat ships of tomorrow, according to the Navy&#8217;s program manager for the LCS mission modules. Engineers with Naval Sea Systems Command have tested using a miniature blimp, also known as an aerostat, with the LCS mine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Squad takes on whole new meaning</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/geek-squad-takes-on-whole-new-meaning/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/geek-squad-takes-on-whole-new-meaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As further evidence that the Geek Squad provides the best pickings for tomorrow’s Navy, we turn to the latest news out of the Naval Academy. For the Class of 2015, cyberwarfare and cybersecurity will be right up there with the traditional instruction of all things nautical. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whew! Sailors regain access to Fox News site</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/whew-sailors-regain-access-to-fox-news-site/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/whew-sailors-regain-access-to-fox-news-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps not since the Battle of the Java Sea have U.S. Navy personnel had to endure such a withering hardship as the one they struggled with earlier Friday, when &#8212; are you sitting down? &#8212; they couldn&#8217;t view Fox News online. Fox News, of course, was on the case, with a headline on its homepage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just one text and you could be next</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/just-one-text-and-you-could-be-next/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/just-one-text-and-you-could-be-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our colleagues in the Emerald Isle comes a cautionary tale for these strange times when the young people have their Inter-Webs and their Twit-Tubes and their Face-Space and such &#8212; an Irish sailor is in legal trouble for &#8220;disclosing the whereabouts of his vessel to his girlfriend by text,&#8221; reports the Irish Times. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career advice from a Navy legend</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/career-advice-from-a-navy-legend/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/career-advice-from-a-navy-legend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck spent an awesome morning with retired Capt. (Dr.) Don Walsh, pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, which recorded the deepest dive any man has made. He and Jacques Piccard on Jan. 23, 1960 dove 35,797 feet (6.8 miles) into the deepest known part of any ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. (Navy Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/09/seven-in-seven/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/09/seven-in-seven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy kicked off the month by kicking pirate butt in three foiled attacks. The stories that nabbed most other headlines this week included the Nuclear Posture Review, which was all the talk in the beltway; F-35 training, which continues despite problems getting the jets; the Fire Scout, which scored its first drug bust;  the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy leads way, again</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/05/navy-leads-way-again/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/05/navy-leads-way-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the rare space shuttle that doesn’t shoot toward space without the Navy aboard in some form or fashion. Monday’s predawn launch of Space Shuttle Discovery – officially it’s STS-131 mission – from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center came with two military officers at the helm, including shuttle commander and Navy Capt. Alan G. Poindexter, 49, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The drunk walk and the peacock tail</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/02/the-drunk-walk-and-the-peacock-tail/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/02/the-drunk-walk-and-the-peacock-tail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE INDEPENDENCE &#8212; Ever since I first laid eyes on the early PowerPoint illustrations for this ship &#8212; depicted in a camouflage livery it will never get &#8212; I&#8217;ve been insanely curious: What&#8217;ll it actually be like, in terms of the ride experience, in a 3,000-ton aluminum trimaran? The answer: It rolls. A lot. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A giant Lego base at sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/23/a-giant-lego-base-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/23/a-giant-lego-base-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of containers and seabasing, here&#8217;s an interesting concept that could change the way sailors live in tomorrow&#8217;s long-term offshore operations: Those crazy scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for ways to assemble bases at sea from ISO containers, to build what they call a Tactical Expendable Maritime Platform, which would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in seabasing, vol. 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/this-week-in-seabasing-vol-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/this-week-in-seabasing-vol-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a hot shot for all the crane fans out there: Check out this Large Vessel Interface, Lift-On/Lift-Off crane aboard the Military Sealift Command crane ship Flickertail State loading some ISO containers from the pier last week. To a small cadre of seabasing devotees in Washington and Quantico, this is just as sexy as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea trials links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/sea-trials-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/sea-trials-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just-built, crash-back testin&#8217;, detect-to-engagin&#8217;, high-speed S-turnin&#8217;, missile-launchin&#8217; links, advising you to make sure your gear is stowed for sea and to prepare for a full power run toward the Web&#8217;s latest news: The hospital ship Comfort is back! Ex-Soviet Alfa-class attack subs could get their highest-profile job since the V.K. Konovalov hunted the Red October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecNav becomes a chief, drives a YP, joins Twitter</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/11/secnav-becomes-a-chief-drives-a-yp-joins-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/11/secnav-becomes-a-chief-drives-a-yp-joins-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is having a hectic week. He became an honorary chief petty officer &#8212; at the Naval Academy, of all places! &#8212; piloted one of the midshipmen&#8217;s beloved yard patrol craft and today is scheduled to appear with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead before the House Appropriations Committee&#8217;s defense subcommittee. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pimp your ship, the haze gray way</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/10/pimp-your-ship-the-haze-gray-way/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/10/pimp-your-ship-the-haze-gray-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bandwagon Scoop Deck is glad to jump on: The maritime blog gCaptain is asking for suggestions from its professional mariner audience about how they would &#8220;pimp their ships&#8221; and we want to hear how you, our audience of sailors, would pimp your warships. European-navy style bar with beers, wines and spirits? Military Sealift [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New chain gun to help frigate do its job</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/new-chain-gun-to-help-frigate-do-its-job/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/new-chain-gun-to-help-frigate-do-its-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ordnance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of either politeness or cognitive dissonance, the Navy has continued to refer to its frigates as &#8220;FFGs,&#8221; even after all the ships in the class lost their Mk 13 missile launchers &#8212; the famous &#8220;one-armed bandit&#8221; &#8212; along with the SM-1 surface to air missiles that earned them the &#8220;G&#8221; for &#8220;guided missile.&#8221; That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next big surface ship: Flight III DDG</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/25/next-big-surface-ship-flight-iii-ddg/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/25/next-big-surface-ship-flight-iii-ddg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Navy has killed the advanced cruiser known as CG(X), you were probably wondering what would take its place as the tomorrow&#8217;s bearer of today&#8217;s hopes and dreams and plans and schemes. Officials hinted at it starting Feb. 1, when they confirmed CG(X) was no more and instead the Navy would add its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could LCS lose its missile?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/could-lcs-lose-its-missile/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/could-lcs-lose-its-missile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though the Navy is very proud that the littoral combat ship Freedom is underway right now in the Caribbean patrolling for smugglers, there are many parts of the LCS concept still in the works. The wham-o-dyne, helicopter-mounted, super-gun that will blow up mines, for example, is still under development, as are the Non Line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCS 3 mods may preclude need for water wings</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/lcs-3-mods-could-preclude-water-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/lcs-3-mods-could-preclude-water-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember those boxy structures &#8212; the &#8220;buoyancy tanks,&#8221; or as we called them, water wings &#8212; the Navy attached to the stern of the littoral combat ship Freedom? They may just be a one-ship answer to insufficient LCS floatiness, Scoop Deck has learned. Kim Martinez, a spokeswoman for Freedom-class LCS builder Lockheed Martin, said Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom&#8217;s other unmanned systems</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/16/freedoms-other-unmanned-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/16/freedoms-other-unmanned-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE FREEDOM &#8212; Yeah, yeah, we all know about the unmanned surface vessel that will troll its sonar for enemy submarines, or the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter &#8212; what unmanned systems made the biggest splash with the reporters who visited this ship today? Its cleaning-bots. To help keep the passageways tidy and help out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom&#8217;s water wings</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/16/freedoms-water-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/16/freedoms-water-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP FREEDOM &#8212; Not a lot has changed aboard this ship since I had the pleasure of spending a few days aboard in the Great Lakes after it was commissioned in November 2008. The aluminum superstructure and the steel hull are starting to show a patina from exposure to salt spray; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy&#8217;s unmanned (war)ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/03/the-navys-unmanned-warship/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/03/the-navys-unmanned-warship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the long-term trends in the fleet, this was only a matter of time: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to build a completely unmanned surface ship that will cruise the oceans looking for submarines. DARPA has a request for proposal out this week on an &#8220;Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death knell for CG(X)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/02/death-knell-for-cgx/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/02/death-knell-for-cgx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the advanced next-generation cruiser known as CG(X) &#8212; we hardly knew ye. Sure, some people knew ye very well &#8212; 500 pages well, in the fabled analysis of alternatives that only appeared once a year, on fire, on the horizon off Ocracoke. But for the rest of us, this is as much of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need to sharpen that killing edge? Try video games!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/27/need-to-sharpen-that-killing-edge-try-video-games/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/27/need-to-sharpen-that-killing-edge-try-video-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All you oldsters just never understood, did you &#8212; with your &#8220;fresh air,&#8221; &#8220;outdoor activities&#8221; and your &#8220;socializing&#8221; and such &#8212; the younger generation hasn&#8217;t been wasting time inside playing &#8220;Halo&#8221; all these years. It&#8217;s been developing itself into a legion of stone-cold killers! Such is the conclusion from an Office of Naval Research scientist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A towed array for LCS?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/a-towed-array-for-lcs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/a-towed-array-for-lcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mine warfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The littoral combat ships weren&#8217;t designed with an onboard sonar because the Navy wanted LCS to use the sensors aboard its unmanned vehicles &#8212; including a remotely operated boat and submarine &#8212; but that, apparently, could be changing: Naval Sea Systems Command&#8217;s Underwater Warfare Center at Newport, R.I. has a request for proposal (pdf) out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A vision of the future</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/22/a-vision-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/22/a-vision-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something to chew on over the weekend: An artist&#8217;s conception of what China&#8217;s aircraft carrier, probably now under construction, could look like when it hits the water. This illustration comes from a July 2009 report by the Office of Naval Intelligence about the People&#8217;s Liberation Army Navy &#8212; the Chinese navy &#8212; that includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Updates for the record</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-updates-for-the-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last events are all done, the cocktails and finger-goods have been deployed in the exhibit areas, and Washington&#8217;s defense hacks have packed up their laptops and filed out of the building. At the conclusion of day one of the Surface Navy Association&#8217;s annual trade show, here are five of the latest dates, schedules and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Unicorns, leprechauns and the CG(X) AoA</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/unicorns-leprechauns-and-cgx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within certain very narrow circles in Washington, it&#8217;s amazing how much influence is wielded by pieces of paper. The budget, the 30-year shipbuilding plan, the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Ballistic Missile Defense Review &#8212; although these would all sound to most Americans like a buncha nonsense (and they might not be wrong) the right documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Sometimes, it takes a disaster</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-sometimes-it-takes-a-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurrent theme in today&#8217;s talks has been the Navy&#8217;s need to strike the right balance between its traditional, fightin&#8217;-the-Northern-Fleet-on-the-high-seas self-conception and today&#8217;s missions, fightin&#8217; illiterate guys in dhows. What will it take, presenters and questioners keep asking, to get Big Navy to thread the metaphorical needle and be ready for the latest buzzword: &#8220;hybrid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Fun facts about a giant building</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-fun-facts-about-a-giant-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more controversial elements of SNA every year is Naval Sea Systems Command&#8217;s presentation booth. When it comes to buildin&#8217; ships, NavSea is obviously a Big Deal, and this year it has a lineup of heavy hitters who are scheduled to give talks about what they do &#8212; including the big man, Vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Just how smart is Aegis BMD?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-just-how-smart-is-aegis-bmd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-just-how-smart-is-aegis-bmd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense giant Lockheed Martin is giving a slew of briefings this morning at the Surface Navy Association&#8217;s annual symposium just outside Washington, and although it has been crowing about its products, officials didn&#8217;t want to say too much. After a presentation about the advanced new variants of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, Scoop Deck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-SNA: Warships&#8217; new menu of missiles</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/11/pre-sna-warships-new-menu-of-missiles/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/11/pre-sna-warships-new-menu-of-missiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this very moment, deep within a certain hotel near Washington&#8217;s National Airport, a wonderland is under construction. Workers are setting up scale model destroyers, some of them with tiny SM-3 missiles depicted in mid-launch, complete with pretend flames. Glossy hand-outs &#8212; depicting ships, aircraft, and ground vehicles all operating simultaneously around peninsulas, linked together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small gadget, huge consequences</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/05/small-gadget-huge-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing what you can find on these social-networking pages these days &#8212; Naval History and Heritage Command reports on Facebook that 67 years ago Tuesday, the cruiser Helena fired the Navy&#8217;s first proximity-fuzed anti-air shell and downed a Japanese dive-bomber in World War II. So the shell had a different fuze, so what? According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What might have been: CVB(N)s, BBBs and T-ABs?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/what-might-have-been-cvbns-bbbs-t-ab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we observed the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the ballistic missile sub George Washington, the Navy&#8217;s first boomer and the culmination of its bid to grasp its share of the U.S. strategic deterrence mission. Did you know, however, that submarines were originally only one slice of a Navy plan to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 4th or 5th Zumwalt? Defense pundit says&#8230; maybe</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/a-4th-or-5th-zumwalt-defense-pundit-says-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ubiquitous defense pundit Loren Thompson hasn&#8217;t given us blue-side types very much to chew on since he and his compatriots launched their Early Warning blog last summer, vowing it wouldn&#8217;t contain all the &#8220;tendentious nonsense&#8221; found in so many other mil-blogs. Now, what was it that veteran mil-blogger ol&#8217; Phib said about that? Oh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeal does not rest, but it does Tweet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/zeal-does-not-rest-but-it-does-tweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many great Twitter feeds from commands throughout the fleet &#8212; for example, just pulling a few random samples from the Twitter Feed of Excellence, you can follow the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard and the carriers Harry S. Truman and Nimitz. Tweeting, however, is apparently something new over in the Royal Navy, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in action</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/28/back-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can almost hear the metaphorical gas turbines starting back up here at the Center of Excellence, where people are eager to get back to work after the holiday. First, though, a quick run-through of some of the noteworthy things you might have missed amid yule-tiding last week: It looks like India will finally take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work begins on new ship for&#8230; the Army? (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/work-begins-on-new-ship-for-the-army/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/work-begins-on-new-ship-for-the-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naval Sea Systems Command announced Thursday that the Gulf Coast shipyard that built the littoral combat ship Independence had just started work on a new vessel &#8212; for the Army. Has the whole world, you ask, gone topsy-turvy? Dogs and cats living together&#8230; mass hysteria&#8230; NavSea issuing press releases about Army ships&#8230; Reclaim your grip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick yourself out of the Army-Navy crowd</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/pick-yourself-out-of-the-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/pick-yourself-out-of-the-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were you at the Army-Navy Game this weekend in Philadelphia? Do you know someone who was? Do you enjoy really cool things? If you answered &#8220;yes&#8221; to any of those questions, tell the boss you can&#8217;t take any more work today, close your email and check this out &#8212; we&#8217;ve got a set of super [...]]]></description>
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