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Acquisition

Should the Defense Department get more mixed up with mergers and acquisitions?

The defense industrial base roster of companies keeps shrinking, and supply chain snags have become constant.

Retirement

How lawmakers are looking to change the COLA for federal retirees

Retirement

For 2023, federal retirees will see largest COLA increase in over 40 years

Contracting

We get the latest on how inflation is impacting government contracting

DoD Reporter's Notebook

2022 spending bill fills holes in DoD's long-underfunded facility maintenance budgets

Defense

House readiness panel 'not messing around' on deteriorating DoD depots

Defense

DoD's drug supply chain is shaky, DoD IG report adds to growing evidence of that

Air Force

Defense

Services look to predictive maintenance, more training time to reduce mishaps

FILE - This Friday, March 17, 2019 file photo shows the main entrance to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. Nearly 200 Americans evacuated from China because of the new virus are "very relieved' to be quarantined at March Air Reserve Base, a military base in Southern California for two weeks, one of them said Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Ice storm puts renewed interest on military base safety

Jackie Speier

Defense

'They are not cogs in a wheel' — Congressional panel to focus on humanizing issues regarding troops in 2021

In this Jan. 10, 2020, photo, people work at a portion of border wall which is under construction in Yuma, Ariz. Illegal border crossings have plummeted as the Trump administration has extended a policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico for court hearings in the U.S. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Defense

Pentagon leaders face bipartisan anger over border wall reprogramming

In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo, housing stands dilapidated and vacant at the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster, in Warminster, Pa. In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Defense

Final NDAA holds more than 50 provisions to fix military housing issues

FILE - In this June 15, 2018, file photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. While the price of almost any good or service can be found online, most Americans don’t know what they’ll owe for a prescription medication until they get it. Unexpected costs contribute to the estimated 20 to 30 percent of prescriptions that are never filled, which can lead to health problems from untreated medical conditions. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Congress

Are drug ingredients made in China a risk to troops? Two lawmakers think so

Census

Federal Newscast

Commerce IG auditing Census Bureau’s cybersecurity ahead of 2020 count

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Defense

Senate ups R&D spending in defense appropriations bill, battle still brewing on wall funding

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Federal Newscast

OGE considering restrictions for donations to federal employees' legal expense funds

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Congress

Exclusive Top lawmaker proposes taking activities away from climate vulnerable bases like Camp Lejeune

Adm. Karl Schultz, Coast Guard commandant, delivers the 2019 State of the Coast Guard Address at Coast Guard Base Los Angeles-Long Beach in San Pedro, Calif., Thursday, March 21, 2019. Strapped with an aging fleet, the U.S. Coast Guard is about to award a contract for a much-needed new icebreaker to help compete against Russia and China for a presence in the Arctic, but the service needs more funding for operations and infrastructure, its commandant said Thursday. (Seaman Ryan Estrada/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

Budget

Coast Guard focuses on readiness, hiring for 2020 in shadow of shutdown

This March 17, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Air Force shows an aerial view of Offutt Air Force Base and the surrounding areas affected by flood waters in Neb. Surging unexpectedly strong and up to 7 feet high, the Missouri River floodwaters that poured on to much the Nebraska air base that houses the U.S. Strategic Command overwhelmed the frantic sandbagging by troops and their scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and aircraft. (Tech. Sgt. Rachelle Blake/The U.S. Air Force via AP)

Defense

DoD justifies climate change report, says response was mission-centric

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Defense

Democrats scold DoD over incomplete climate change report

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Pay & Benefits

Bill would change equation for seniors when calculating COLAs

Coast Guard

Congress

Budget decisions still not the Coast Guard's strong suit, GAO says