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Defense cuts, cybersecurity and IoT: Five Senate NDAA amendments to know

The Senate added 62 bipartisan amendments to the bill and will debate six more.

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Social security relief for federal retirees, and other bills to watch after August recess

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U.S. Air National Guard photo by/Staff Sgt. Edward EagertonStaff Sgt. Micah McDonald, a air surveillance technician with the 176th Air Defense Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, evaluates radar data during exercise Fencing Rice on JBER, June 14, 2016. Fencing Rice is a local exercise designed to test the unit’s Air Defense response. The 176 ADS employs surveillance, identification, weapons control and data links in support of the Alaskan NORAD region’s 24/7/365 mission to watch and protect the skies over 1.3 million square miles of Alaskan airspace. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton/released)

Bill orders Pentagon to fix knowledge gap in National Guard, reserve cyber capabilities

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