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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota refers to a chart while questioning Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, defense undersecretary and comptroller, at a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee on the President's FY 2013 budget request in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2012.

U.S. Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota refers to a chart while questioning Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, defense undersecretary and comptroller, at a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee on the President's FY 2013 budget request in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2012.

U.S. Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota refers to a chart while questioning Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, defense undersecretary and comptroller, at a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee on the President's FY 2013 budget request in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2012.

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