As the U.S. starts to refocus its efforts on the Asia-Pacific, some of America's largest partners and allies in the region are set to make significant military investments of their own, especially for procurement and research and development (R&D). As a group, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand are slated to spend about $1.4 trillion on military programs between 2013 and 2018, an estimated 55% increase over the $919.5 billion the countries spent between 2008 and 2012, according to an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) analysis of data provided by Avas-cent Analytics, a Washington-based company that provides an online toolkit for market analysis of global defense programs.
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