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• HOUSE PANEL APPROVES NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, CUTS TO FEDS' COMPENSATION ARE NOT INCLUDED DESPITE ADMINISTRATION PUSH - May 11, 2018
• House Panel Approves Measure to Slash Some Pentagon Offices, Make Workforce Reforms
  
  
  By Eric Katz, Government Executive
  
  
  The Fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act would eliminate the Washington Headquarters Services office, which employs 2,300 civilian and military personnel and 1,700 contract workers. The WHS functions deemed essential would be transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. About one-fourth of Defense’s workforce is employed by the 30 agencies that Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Service Committee and author of the provision to cut back office spending, called the “fourth estate.”
  
  
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