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Cancelling a Pentagon lobbying rule before it gets started

A provision proposed for the 2021 National Defense Authorization bill would undo a 2018 law, having to do with when departing defense officials can support…

Agency Oversight

Are increase progress payments actually helping defense industry? Warren wants to know

Defense

DoD plan to classify spending plans gets thumbs down from almost everyone

Defense

Watchdog disapproves of secret Afghanistan reconstruction reports

Federal Drive

Former military officers continue embracing defense contracting industry despite ethics concerns

Federal Drive

Military largely absent from government reorganization

Defense

Transparency groups decry Air Force media crackdown as new details emerge

Air Force

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks to the committee's ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

McCain, Reed float trial balloon for another BRAC round

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Watchdogs urge Trump to be strategic in cutting DoD workforce

Defense News

Fully funded defense appropriations bill getting a late jumpstart

Congress

Trump’s $54 billion defense budget increase isn’t what it seems. And Congress is mad

Defense

Whistleblower silence concept or intimidation symbol and whistle blower silenced to stay quiet as pressure to expose corruption as a red whistler with a closed zipper.

DoD IG says low funding partly to blame for delayed whistleblower investigations

The Pentagon’s acting inspector general blames chronic underfunding for extensive delays in its investigations into whistleblower reprisal claims, which…

Defense

Congress expected to finalize defense cuts

Congress is figuring out which programs will feel the pain of a $5 billion cut to defense spending so the plan can fit the new budget deal. House Armed…

Defense

Budget deal puts NDAA back on track

Defense

Congress will rework the Defense authorization act to conform to budget deal parameters if it cannot garner enough votes to override the President’s veto.

Cancelling a Pentagon lobbying rule before it gets started

Are increase progress payments actually helping defense industry? Warren wants to know

DoD plan to classify spending plans gets thumbs down from almost everyone

Watchdog disapproves of secret Afghanistan reconstruction reports

Former military officers continue embracing defense contracting industry despite ethics concerns

Military largely absent from government reorganization

Transparency groups decry Air Force media crackdown as new details emerge

McCain, Reed float trial balloon for another BRAC round

Watchdogs urge Trump to be strategic in cutting DoD workforce

Fully funded defense appropriations bill getting a late jumpstart

Trump’s $54 billion defense budget increase isn’t what it seems. And Congress is mad

DoD IG says low funding partly to blame for delayed whistleblower investigations

Congress expected to finalize defense cuts

Budget deal puts NDAA back on track

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