House panel preserves plan to slash Pentagon agencies -- mostly

Defense News: An effort to slash the Pentagon’s so-called fourth-estate, back-office agencies was weakened but not slain Wednesday at the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of its version of the annual defense policy bill.

The panel voted to overrule its own chairman, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, to protect the Defense Department’s Test Resource Management Center, which oversees weapons testing and evaluation. Thornberry is spearheading plans to enact deep cuts to Pentagon support agencies.

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