WASHINGTON — After weeks of high-level talks, the House and Senate Armed Services committees on Tuesday will unveil details of a compromise 2015 Pentagon policy bill that will reportedly frustrate the Defense Department's efforts to curb service members' compensation.

The bill, which needs to be passed by the House and Senate, would axe proposed increases in Tricare premiums and ignore cuts to housing allowances and the cost-of-living adjustments, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited an unnamed congressional aide.

With the Senate again unable to bring a SASC-passed version of the national defense authorization bill to the floor, leaders of the two panels were forced to hammer out a final version that is expected to pass both chambers in the 113th Congress' final days.

Senior staffers from both panels are slated to brief reporters on details of the 2015 NDAA around midday Tuesday.

The House could take up the measure later this week, with the Senate following suit before it adjourns sometime before the week of Christmas.

Just when the upper chamber will send the measure to the president's desk is "all up in the air," a Senate aide said Monday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday that the NDAA is among his must-pass bills before he hands the gavel to Republicans.

The HASC-SASC talks had stalled due to resistance over proposed changes to military personnel benefits.

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