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Today in the Department of Defense, Monday, October 01, 2012

Vice President  Joseph Biden will join Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to deliver remarks at the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Program Transition Ceremony at the Pentagon Auditorium at 1 p.m. EDT.  Media must RSVP to James Swartout at James.Swartout@osd.mil no later than 8 a.m. 

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has no public or media events on his schedule. 

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey delivers remarks at the Landon Lecture Series at 12:30 p.m. EDT at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan.

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