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Why is Social Security Buying Bullets?

Because its IG investigators say they need them.

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Nobody knows if you’re a fed online

GSA wants to change that with its social media registry.

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Commentary: Navy treatment and AA saved my life -- and career

Memo to TRICARE: Keep care in-house and mandate meetings.

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AA works and it’s free, yet Pentagon snubs the substance abuse program

Defense Department is coping with a surge of drug and alcohol addiction.

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Scientists band together to develop PTSD biomarkers

Findings could prevent veterans from going undiagnosed.

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Pentagon is trying to keep the biggest defense program in history on track

F-35 program manager Vice Adm. David Venlet sought a return to acquisition fundamentals.

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TRICARE substance abuse treatment falls short, experts say

The military insurance program covers 20-day inpatient rehabilitation at contract facilities.

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Jailed man narrowly escapes fatal error in electronic health record

Heart patient nearly received lethal dose of medication.

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Pentagon's Stimulus Plan: Buy More Meat

Defense accelerates purchases of beef, lamb and pork.

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TRICARE outsources addiction treatment with little oversight

Congress ordered Defense to treat drug and alcohol abuse ‘epidemic’ at military facilities.

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Pentagon envisions new Air Force One

Aerospace firms are watching for calls for new presidential aircraft.

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Arctic drilling might wait until 2013, Interior Secretary Salazar says

Shell Oil agrees delay is likely.

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Romney, Vegas, Business and Government

When it comes to his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney is a company man.

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En Garde, State Department

'I am for any candidate who distrusts the State Department,' Newt Gingrich says.

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Romney app scooped on VP choice

Users were promised they'd be the first to know, but word leaked out earlier.

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Hackers hold health data hostage

Thieves demanded money in exchange for access to the files.

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Please Don't Bring Bombs to the Lost and Found

IG reports that Federal Protective Service contract guard used poor judgment when handling improvised explosive device at Detroit federal building.

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State Department’s Kindle plan offers a lesson in diplomacy

How an obliquely-worded e-reader contract generated a lot of misinformation.

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Customs and Border Protection flouts Napolitano’s vision for IT consolidation

The agency argues buying its own tool to track aircraft inventory is cheaper than collaborating with the Coast Guard to link portfolios.

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Senators ask Pentagon to consider debarring United Technologies from future contracts

Company may have caused ‘significant harm’ to national security with China sales, lawmakers say.