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Bryan Bender, who joined the Globe's Washington Bureau in 2001, covers the US military, global terrorism, the international arms trade, and government secrecy.
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Raytheon is in the hunt for a $3b space project
By Bryan Bender , Globe Staff
Waltham-based Raytheon and Maryland’s Lockheed Martin are locked in a competition to build a first-of-its-kind “Space Fence” to track orbital junk.
Proposed budget cuts imperil defense jobs in Mass.
By Bryan Bender , Globe Staff
Defense contractor General Dynamics said the cuts would affect “hundreds’’ of employees at two plants in the state.
US officials seek lessons in bombing catastrophe
By Bryan Bender , Globe Staff
Three weeks after the Marathon bombings, the Department of Homeland Security is seeking to use lessons from the attacks to enhance community policing.
With Cuban help, Kennedy library gets Hemingway trove
By Bryan Bender , Globe Staff
Ernest Hemingway’s life in the island nation, much of it obscured during years of US-Cuba distrust, is being illuminated through previously unavailable documents.