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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Daily News Round Up for Tuesday, March 13, 2012



SmartContracting Blog's daily harvest of news and opinion articles on topics of interest to our industry. 
(Note: Opinion pieces do not necessarily represent the opinions of PSC, but are interesting nonetheless.)

Washington Post: Ignoring sequestration won’t make it vanish

Federal News Radio: What contractors need to know about new DFAR rules on business systems

Federal News Radio: OMB's pause of financial systems had little effect on cost, schedule

Washington Business Journal: How contractors should view the fiscal 2013 budget proposal

Federal Times: McCain vows to block Pentagon reprogramming requests

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