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February, 2016 News
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- 2-29-16 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Exclusive -- DISA’s backslide on telework heightens employee concerns
- 2-28-16 Military.com: Military Hospitals Are Key to Keeping Medical Staff Combat-Ready
- 2-26-16 Naval District Washington Quarterdeck: Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield Tests Crisis Response Throughout NDW
- 2-26-16 Military Times: House panel weighs allowing civilian trauma cases at more military hospitals
- 2-26-16 Military.com: Air Force Secretary to Lawmakers: Let Us Close Bases -- Deborah Lee James said infrastructure improvements across too many bases are forcing the AF to put money where it's not needed.
- 2-26-16 Bethesda Magazine: One Sidewalk to Open, Another Across the Street Set to Close in Downtown Bethesda -- As one Bethesda construction project finishes, sidewalk closure to come for another project just beginning on Woodmont Avenue
- 2-26-16 Bethesda Magazine: Prospects Appear Dim for Expanded Battery Lane Park in Bethesda -- Property owner near park doesn’t want to give up land in case it decides to redevelop
- 2-26-16 Association of Defense Communities: Carter Testimony Upbraids Congress for Rejecting Past BRAC Requests
- 2-25-16 Montgomery County Planning Department: Bicycle Master Plan Update: Best Practices for Suburban Bicycling Planning Presented at Planning Department’s Winter Speakers Series
- 2-25-16 Military Times: Tricare changes will improve access, defense health officials say
- 2-25-16 Bethesda Magazine: New Developer Describes Changes for Bethesda High-Rise Project -- Toll Brothers City Living will convert a planned apartment building into a luxury condo building
- 2-25-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: MCC, NCI Collaborate to Support National Cancer Initiative
- 2-25-16 Belvoir Eagle: Belvoir Hospital first military facility to use new vein procedure
- 2-25-16 Baltimore Sun: End the specter of sequester for DoD budget -- Commentary by John Karabias, manager of strategy and corporate development at Engility Corporation at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
- 2-24-16 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: DoD’s fuzzy math could hurt its future budgets
- 2-24-16 Bethesda Magazine: Coalition of Bethesda Area Residents Seeks to Limit Development on Edges of Downtown Bethesda
- 2-23-16 Bethesda Magazine: Silver Spring Garage to Close in March to Allow United Therapeutics Redevelopment
- 2-23-16 Association of Defense Communities: Excess Capacity Analysis Expected before Summer -- The new report, mandated under the fiscal 2016 defense authorization bill, is expected to bolster the department’s case for holding a new BRAC round. The administration’s FY 2017 budget request calls for a new round to be held in 2019.
- 2-22-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Montgomery Co. schools face challenging demographic shift
- 2-22-16 WTTG/FOX5 TV: (VIDEO REPORT) Stretch of DC beltway known as 'The Roller Coaster' scene of many accidents -- Dangerous Stretch from Old Georgetown Road to Georgia Avenue
- 2-22-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Anticipation builds for Purple Line construction
- 2-22-16 Maryland Capital Gazette: $14 million in grant funding to go toward improving state walking, bicycling projects
- 2-22-16 Association of Defense Communities: GAO Questions Accuracy of BRAC 2005 Implementation Costs
- 2-18-16 Washington Post: Purple Line bid includes trains from firm that made Metro’s ‘least reliable’ cars
- 2-18-16 BISNOW Real Estate News: Inside The Tumultuous Transition In Montgomery County
- 2-18-16 Bethesda Magazine: County Set to Install Lighting on Bethesda Trolley Trail -- Before project starts, officials will conduct a lighting demonstration to address concerns from abutting homeowners
- 2-18-16 Bethesda Magazine: Real Estate Professionals Say There’s Hope on the Horizon For Vacant Office Buildings -- At ‘Montgomery County State of the Market’ event, County Executive Ike Leggett said he’s ‘reasonably confident’ Marriott International will remain headquartered in county
- 2-17-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Proposed transportation projects could ease traffic in the region
- 2-17-16 Fierce Vaccines: Walter Reed kicks off PhI trial of Inovio's MERS vaccine
- 2-16-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: D.C. redevelopment of old Walter Reed site inches forward
- 2-16-16 Bethesda Magazine: Bethesda Church Plans to Start Redevelopment Project Next Year -- The Christ Lutheran Church of Bethesda will move to Imagination Stage during construction of condominium building, new church and recreation center
- 2-16-16 POLITICO: Job growth predicted for defense industry
- 2-15-16 Bethesda Magazine: EYA Begins Marketing Brownstones at Chevy Chase Lake -- Developer is set to open sales center for 62 town homes this spring or summer
- 2-12-16 U.S. Department of Defense: Naval Support Activity Bethesda trains for suspicious package
- 2-12-16 Bethesda Magazine: Apex Building Redevelopment Project Gets First Approval -- Complex proposal involves three high-rises, major implications for the design of the Bethesda Purple Line
- 2-11 16 Montgomery County Dept. of Transportation: Installation of New Bikeshare Station at Medical Center Planned for February 23
- 2-11-16 Advance Healthcare Network: Defense Centers of Excellence Transitions to DHA
- 2-11-16 Baltimore Business Journal: Maryland lawmakers to weigh ban on use of animals in medical research
- 2-10-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Active shooter drill tests NSAB security response
- 2-10-16 BISNOW Real Estate News: Rockville Pike Is Paving Its Way into Its Own Future
- 2-10-16 Washington Post: Obama administration proposes $125 million for Purple Line construction -- The rail project wouldn’t receive any federal money until the Maryland Transit Administration finalizes a full funding agreement with the Federal Transit Administration
- 2-10-16 Association of Defense Communities: Pentagon Renews BRAC Request but Pushes it Back to 2019
- 2-9-16 Washington Post: Leggett requests $1.33 million to prepare trail land for Purple Line construction
- 2-9-16 Bethesda Magazine: Business Notes: Bethesda Area Ranks First Again in STEM Pay
- 2-9-16 Bethesda Magazine: Montgomery County Wants to Add Two Floors, $21 Million to Wheaton Redevelopment -- County says adding the space will allow more county agencies to move into planned Wheaton Triangle office building
- 2-8-16 BISNOW: Hines Buys Two Rockville Pike Office Buildings From JBG
- 2-8-16 Montgomery Community Media: Officials Celebrate Newly Expanded National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Rockville
- 2-5-16 Bethesda Magazine: Planning Board Finds Compromise on Controversial Redevelopment of Bethesda Fire Station -- The board on Thursday recommended a ‘floating zone’ for the site, which will require extensive review if the redevelopment ever moves forward
- 2-5-16 Bethesda Magazine: Berliner Asks County Council Committee to Include $6 Million For Wall Park Garage
- 2-5-16 Fort Detrick Standard: New Service Streamlines Child Care Process on Military Installation
- 2-5-16 Washington Post: Dr. Gridlock -- We need to accept urban trails as part of the commuter network
- 2-5-16 Stars and Stripes: Walter Reed campus hosts active-shooter exercise
- 2-4-16 NSA Bethesda/Walter Reed NMMC Journal: Rear Adm. Lane Takes Helm as WRNMMC’s New Director
- 2-4-16 WTOP 103.5 FM: Bus lane coming to 16th Street in Northwest D.C.
- 2-4-16 Association of Defense Communities: Lawmakers Review Need for Overhauling Medical Facilities
- 2-3-16 U.S. Army Research Laboratory: (VIDEO REPORT) ARL Open Campus
- 2-3-16 Bethesda Magazine: As Westbard Plan Hits Council, Marc Elrich Says Affordable Housing Promises Are Excuses For Overdevelopment
- 2-3-16 Navy Times: Navy touts active-shooter response after false alarm
- 2-2-16 Bethesda Magazine: County School System Begins Boundary-Drawing Process for New Bethesda-Chevy Chase Middle School
- 2-2-16 Bethesda Magazine: Toll Brothers Buys Bethesda Project, Plans to Convert Building to Condos
- 2-2-16 Washington Post: Al Roshdieh appointed Montgomery transportation director
- 2-2-16 Washington Business Journal: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's budget delays planned $162 million Universities at Shady Grove biomedical building -- Officials at The Universities at Shady Grove expected to be getting $72 million in Gov. Larry Hogan's budget. Instead, they are looking at a three-year delay.
- 2-2-16 Washington Post: National Security Agency plans major reorganization -- The electronic spy agency will merge its offensive and defensive directorates to face new digital threats.
- 2-2-16 Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Trouble ahead for Defense budget, analyst says
- 2-1-16 AMSUS, The Society of Federal Health Professionals: Military Medicine -- The New Normal (28 pp)
- 2-1-16 Washington Business Journal: National search launched for new Montgomery County economic development CEO
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