FRONT & CENTER: Military Headline News for January 29, 2013

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* The Senate Armed Services Committee wants to know how the Air Force blew a billion dollars on a software project yet has nothing to show for it.

The work was done by defense giant Computer Sciences Corporation.

The supply management project was canceled in November after the Air Force determined it would cost $1.1 billion to fix a project that a billion dollars had all ready been spent on.

Committee Chair Sen. Carl Levin has ordered an investigation.

* A federal appeals court has reversed the verdicts of the only two Guantanamo Bay prisoners convicted by a military tribunal there.

The move casts doubt over whether any decisions rendered by the military court can stand up to appeal in federal court.


* Childhood obesity is a looming national security issue for the United States.

Only about 24 percent of those 17- to 24-year-olds fully qualified to join the armed forces today for one reason or another.

Growing childhood obesity is shrinking that pool of recruits further.

Rick Rogers, Front & Center: Military Headline News

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