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Contributed by Ike Skelton and Russell Orban of Husch Blackwell’s Government Affairs Practice Group

The United States Department of Defense is the world’s biggest purchaser of goods and services, spending some $381 billion on contracts in FY 2011. But serious changes are on the way. The Iraq war is over and the Obama Administration is planning to withdraw from Afghanistan in the near future. Last summer’s hard-fought budget agreement requires $487 billion in cuts to the defense budget over the next 10 years. The President will soon recommend a defense budget that shaves $51 billion from its previous 2013 projections.

Contributed by Kyle J. Gilster, Esq. of Husch Blackwell’s Governmental Affairs Practice Group

The government contracting community is concerned about the repercussions of the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka “the Super Committee”) to reach an agreement before the November 23rd deadline. In light of this failure, the question of the day is what happens now on deficit reduction and what impact this will have on government contractors.