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Defense and Veterans Affairs aim to speed up joint health record rollout

Departments will ‘meet or beat’ original plan for full deployment by 2017.

Defense

What exactly is Obama's 'red line' in Syria?

A new report reveals the Syrian regime plans to use chemical weapons.

Defense

Analysis: Picking a fight over Susan Rice would not serve the country

Aren't there bigger fish to fry?

Defense

A must-see movie about public service that is not 'Lincoln'

'Burn' is an adrenalin-fueled documentary about Detroit firefighters.

Defense

House passes Coast Guard bill with new housing, travel benefits

Revised measure now returns to the Senate.

Defense

Aerospace companies are healthy but dreading sequestration, says industry chief

Blakey calls on Congress to 'check partisanship' and avoid fiscal cliff.

Pay & Benefits

TRICARE drug co-pay increase still up in the air

Senate bill is silent on health care program’s prescription co-payment hike, paving the way for a more aggressive White House proposal.

Defense

Furloughs, hiring freeze on the table as Defense begins sequester planning

OMB delivers guidance to Pentagon on implementing across-the-board cuts.

Defense

Defense not monitoring cost-cutting initiatives, report finds

Defense needs standardized metrics to gauge savings and reinvestments, watchdog says.

Management

Senate backs lower contractor pay cap, break for women-owned firms

Defense bill would limit reimbursements for executive compensation to $230,700.

Oversight

Susan Rice's Senate opponents voted for resolution on Benghazi protests

The Republicans who object to her claim that protests in Libya preceded four Americans' deaths approved a Senate measure that used similar wording.

Pay & Benefits

Senate approves military pay raise

House version of defense authorization bill also includes 1.7 percent boost for service members.

Defense

Suspect charged in bombing of Arizona federal building

Blast rocks Casa Grande Social Security office; no injuries reported.

Defense

Aides: Obama 'genuinely conflicted' between Rice and Kerry for secretary of State

Decision could come as early as next week.

Defense

Provision slashing up to 36,000 Defense jobs stays alive

Senate defeats amendment that would have eliminated a 5 percent cut in the Pentagon’s civilian, contractor workforce.

Pay & Benefits

The Pentagon says no to disabled daughter of Navy captain

A creative therapy was working on a severely disabled young woman. Yet the Pentagon decided it would no longer be covered by military insurance.

Defense

GOP senator: Rice went beyond Benghazi talking points

Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she is very troubled by what she heard in meetings.

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See how Syria's Internet disappeared

The Syrian government claims that terrorists have cut the major cables supplying internet connections to the country.

Management

Senate approves wartime contracting reform bill

Move caps Sen. McCaskill’s six-year-effort to curb waste and boost oversight.