At the 2008 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exhibition held last week at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital, attendees expressed concern that a new administration might be forced to scale back on defense spending, the Washington Post reports. The fear at the conference, which is hosted by the Association of the United States Army, is that cuts in defense spending might result partly from a global economic crisis and partly from talk by presidential contenders of the eventuality of bringing troops home. Major weapons systems built by the likes of Falls Church-based General Dynamics Corp. or Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda are likely to face new scrutiny – potentially dealing a blow to an industry that has helped insulate the region from deeper economic pain. "There's a lot of uncertainty out there,"...
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