Republican Rep. Ken Calvert is willing to meet Democratic lawmakers partway in their reported plans to trim the defense budget: cut back on civilian employees, not equipment and modernization.
Congress is a step closer to eliminating the Pentagon’s chief management officer position, four years after creating the job to help streamline reform efforts inside the department.
After strained relations in 2016, state secretaries of state described to Fifth Domain how their relationship with the federal government has improved since the last presidential election.
