﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Defense news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more Defense stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/1791/defense.html</link><image><url>http://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gif</url><title>Defense news stories on Newser</title><link>http://www.newser.com/</link></image><copyright>2012 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:15:49 CDT</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/16871/duncan-drops-out-of-gop-race.html</guid><title>Duncan Drops Out of GOP Race</title><dc:creator>Rob Quinn</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=65704&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401023027' border='0' /&gt;California Rep. Duncan Hunter pulled out of the GOP presidential race today after winning only 2% of votes in the Nevada caucuses, CNN reports. The San Diego-area lawmaker said that failing to "gain traction in conservative states of Nevada and South Carolina" proved it was time to quit. A long-shot...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=65704&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401023027" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">Rebublican presidential hopeful, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., arrives for a press conference on Monday Jan. 7, 2008 in Manchester, N.H. He has now dropped out of the race after failing to gain traction in conservative states. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/16871/duncan-drops-out-of-gop-race.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:03:19 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/8292/feds-prepare-for-cyberwar.html</guid><title>Feds Prepare for Cyberwar</title><dc:creator>Max Brallier</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=30973&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401031706' border='0' /&gt;Readying for a new cyber doomsday in which Americans wake to find the power off, cell phones dead, and no access to cash, the Bush administration is considering creating an agency to protect critical public and private computers. Experts say that any attack, which would likely originate in China, would...</description><media:content url="http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=30973&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401031706" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">A Gateway computer, left, is on display next to an Acer computer at Best Buy computer store in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/8292/feds-prepare-for-cyberwar.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:57:19 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/1981/pentagon-woos-tech-startups.html</guid><title>Pentagon Woos Tech Startups</title><dc:creator>Greg Atwan</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=3930&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401035210' border='0' /&gt;Infant tech companies are fast becoming a tributary in the pipeline between the Pentagon and big contractors, the Times reports. And in a new, official initiative, Defense is tasking venture capitalists to harvest ideas and technologies from the fast-moving tech startups they monitor, and small companies are winning coveted contracts.</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=3930&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401035210" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">In this image released by the US Department of Defence, Defense...</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/1981/pentagon-woos-tech-startups.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 11:38:08 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
