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A team of civilian specialists from Aberdeen Proving Ground is heading this week to the Mediterranean Sea for what officials and others say is a historic mission to destroy Syria's chemical warfare stockpile – and one that could serve as a model in the drive to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction. - Barbara Mikulski: We must review and reform the National Security Agency (NSA), but we cannot reject the mission of the NSA, nor the men and women who work there.
- Captain Thomas L. MacKenzie, a retired career Navy officer who was a staff member of the House Armed Services Committee, died Sept. 27 at Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Va., from complications of a fall. He was 65.
- Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about steep impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result.
- A Defense Department funding bill has made bedfellows of two groups more likely to be found in opposite corners: federal labor and federal contractors.
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- WASHINGTON — Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett began his unsuccessful campaign for another term with an unusual meeting: A one-on-one chat over dinner with his Democratic rival.
- Maryland defense contractors are asking lawmakers for details on the so-called sequester — deep budget cuts, including $800 billion to defense spending, due to strike Jan. 2 because the congressional supercommittee failed last year to reach a deficit-reduction agreement.
- In an effort to boost small construction firms that have been hit especially hard by the down economy, congressional lawmakers are taking another look at expanding a little-known bond guarantee program run by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
- Why is Rep. C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger leaving the House Armed Services Committee to make way for an incoming freshman?
- WASHINGTON — Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the Baltimore County Democrat who represents two of Maryland's largest military installations, is stepping down from the House Armed Services Committee effective immediately, his office confirmed Tuesday.
- Deficit or no, House GOP would increase military spending and sidestep pending budget cuts rather than make a deal with Democrats
- A former midshipman who says she was raped twice when she was at the Naval Academy has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force officials to improve their response to sexual assaults at the service academies.
- Three national hotel corporations have agreed to participate in a new program that will allow Americans to donate their hotel points to wounded soldiers and their families, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin said Friday.
- Forty-nine governors, including Martin O¿Malley, are ¿strongly¿ opposing ¿disproportionate¿ cuts to the Air National Guard in the Air Force¿s 2013 budget request.
- The cancellation of the C27J Spartan aircraft would leave the state guard without airlift capability for overseas deployments or state emergencies — and the 250 pilots, loadmasters, maintenance and other personnel of the 135th Airlift Group without an assignment.
- The state and local leaders who helped make Maryland a winner the last time Congress reorganized the nation's military bases say a new round of realignment would likely have little impact on the state — but they are taking nothing for granted.
- A massive, $662 billion defense measure that authorizes hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on Maryland's military facilities cleared a final vote in the Senate Thursday and now heads to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.
- Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett has spent most of his 18-year career on Capitol Hill as an outsider. Now, the 85-year-old Western Maryland Republican faces a redrawn and more Democratic-leaning district that could be his greatest political challenge yet.
