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Budget cuts border security, immigrant detention

Tags: Border Patrol , CBP , budget , sequestration

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Pentagon applying lessons from past ERP failures

DoD said it is tightening-up governance over its large business IT systems, looking for indicators of future failure and forcing resource sponsors to justify their needs before projects begin. Elizabeth McGrath, DoD's deputy chief management officer, told House lawmakers the Pentagon is working on data quality and changing business processes to avoid previous problems.

Tags: DoD , ERP , Congress , ECSS , Air Force , Elizabeth McGrath , Jared Serbu , House Armed Services Committee , technology , VA , health IT

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McCain, Graham warn on CIA nominee vote

Tags: John Brennan , CIA , Lindsey Graham , Senate Intelligence Committee , Senate , Congress

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Senate confirms Hagel for defense secretary

Tags: Chuck Hagel , Barack Obama , DoD , Leon Panetta , Senate Armed Services Committee , Carl Levin ,

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Hagel's GOP foes signal vote should go on

Tags: Chuck Hagel , DoD , Denis McDonough

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13 defense executives bemoan uncertainty of cuts

Defense industry executives criticize the impending sequestration, which they say would lead to the loss of more than 1 million defense-related jobs.

Tags: Joe Lieberman , DoD , sequestration , industry , Northrop Grumman , Boeing , Congress , Senate

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GOP lawmakers see automatic cuts as leverage

Tags: sequestration , budget , DoD , Barack Obama , Lindsey Graham , Congress

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Homeland Security secretary touts border safety

Tags: Janet Napolitano , DHS , CBP , Barack Obama , Marco Rubio

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Schumer, Boxer to back Hagel for Pentagon's job

Tags: Chuck Hagel , DoD , Barack Obama , Senate , Congress , Dianne Feinstein , John Cornyn , Chuck Schumer , Barbara Boxer ,

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Panetta: Layoffs unlikely over 'fiscal cliff'

Tags: defense budget , DoD , Barack Obama , budget , fiscal cliff , Carl Levin , Senate Armed Services Committee , Senate , Rand Paul

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