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Amendments on UFOs, budget cuts and more may slip into the 2023 House NDAA

The House will vote on the 2023 Defense authorization bill in the near future. Federal News Network compiled a list of amendments that are likely to make…

Defense

Maryland legislators ask for investigation into potential discrimination within its National Guard

Federal Newscast

DoD’s new rules on extremism still don’t have enough punch, lawmaker says

Defense

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Insider threat initiative highlights ‘workplace culture’ on program’s 10-year anniversary

Workforce

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DoD trying to balance changes to sexual assault prosecution without giving up large UCMJ authority

Defense

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FILE - In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from air from Air Force One. It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can for the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD budget largely flat, cuts legacy systems for modernization

Defense

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Congress finishes up NDAA, Trump still threatening veto

Defense

A voter stands on a social distance marker outside the Washington County Election Center in Hagerstown, Md., Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, for the first day of in-person early voting. (Colleen McGrath/The Herald-Mail via AP)

2020 roundup: Most key lawmakers for feds keep congressional seats

Congress

National Guard officials, states push back on Trump’s border wall fund diversion

Defense

Lawmakers begin the push for a 3.5% federal pay raise in 2021

Pay

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)

Lawmakers demand answers on reprogramming $7.2B in defense funds for border wall

Defense

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new program that was supposed to get patients off waiting lists at Veterans Affairs medical centers by letting them switch to private-sector doctors is proving to be an even bigger disappointment than initially thought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Bill to eliminate pay cap for VA’s top healthcare workers passes Senate

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Competitive Pay for Leaders in Veterans Health Care Act will correct an unintended consequence from a 2010 bill that was…

Federal Newscast

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)

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

The bill creates a tenant bill of rights and makes it easier for DoD to punish housing contractors.

Defense

TSP participants must secure their online accounts by the end of the year

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Thrift Savings Plan will require tougher online security measures for its participants by the end of the year.