The evaluation will look into the Navy's handling and prevention of suicidal behaviors. Lawmakers are pushing for improvements after an inspector general report found limited resources for victims at many VA medical facilities. Leaders from the two departments are discussing allowing VA staff to move into unused space at more than a dozen military hospitals. It took a lot of questions and a decade of research for Doug Melville to learn the extent of his family's military history. The agency's executive director was found to have used her position to get one of her partners promoted. Much of DOD housing was developed before 1970 and is either woefully outdated or falling apart. This next round of collaborative combat aircraft development could involve the U.S.’s closest and “most strategic” international partners, Kendall said. A Defense Department IG report recommends the civilian employee be reinstated with backpay. Officials have no plans to try and recoup the money, noting that no laws appear to have been violated by the doubled stipend payments. A Pentagon watchdog found "severe and systemic" problems with the unit’s internal controls on medication, among other issues. Load More