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March, 2014 News

• 3-31-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  Bethesda Ready to Unveil New USO Warrior, Family Care Center
  • 3-31-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  New Family Care Center Set to Open in Bethesda
• 3-31-14 ABC News:  The Unsung Heroes Behind the Wounded Warriors
• 3-31-14 Fierce Government IT:  Re-scoped iEHR falling behind schedule, says GAO
• 3-31-14 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Inside the breakneck race to lease Washington apartments
• 3-30-14 Washington Post:  A legacy of pain and pride -- A nationwide poll of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans reveals the profound and enduring effects of war on the 2.6 million who have served
  • 3-30-14 Washington Post:  Post-9/11 veterans suffer large physical and mental toll, survey finds -- Explore results of a landmark survey of those who served in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars as members of the U.S. military in the period after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, including those who are currently on active duty.
  • 3-30-14 Washington Post:  After the Wars - Post-Kaiser survey of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans - Results and survey methodology -- Read stories, graphics and detailed findings from the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans survey
  • 3-30-14 Washington Post:  After the Wars - Post-Kaiser survey of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans -- In this poll: The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a nationally representative survey among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. Click "Detailed view" on any question to view results by military branch, combat arms/combat support, gender and other groups.
• 3-30-14 Baltimore Sun:  Federal cuts pinch Marylanders' income -- $390 million reduction in civilian federal earnings, ripple effects put state's income growth near bottom
• 3-30-14 Hagerstown Herald-Mail:  U.S. Supreme Court ruling would have no impact on Maryland rail-trail projects
• 3-29-14 Bethesda Magazine:  The Indomitable Spirit of Adam Keys -- For a young soldier, war is a lesson in hard math: One best friend and three comrades, lost. Three limbs, gone. One marriage, ended. 130-plus surgeries, endured. But also: one family undivided, one will, unbroken
• 3-29-14 Washington Post:  U.S. cyberwarfare force to grow significantly, defense secretary says
• 3-28-14 Gazette.Net:  Second phase of 600,000 NIH neuroscience center completed -- Massive rebuilding project continues to make room for 3,000 workers
• 3-28-14 Washington Post:  Children with a family member being treated at Walter Reed reassigned to Bethesda school
• 3-28-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  How to fix traffic gridlock near Ft. Belvoir
• 3-28-14 Southern Maryland News:  Hodge offers economic advice to Indian Head officials: Former county commissioner focuses on future -- Naval Support Facility Indian Head provides 3,000 jobs today, Hodge said, “and we have the most important employer here.” The concern for Hodge, he said, is that before the next round of BRAC occurs in 2017, analysts will drive down Indian Head Highway, and the “perception” they will get of the town as economically depressed.
• 3-28-14 Southern Maryland News:  St. Mary’s County third-fastest growing this decade in Md.: Population nearing 110,000 -- Patuxent River Naval Air Station, which kicked off the perpetual growth cycle in St. Mary’s when it opened in 1943, accounts for some 22,000 jobs today and makes up between 75 and 80 percent of the local economy. But reductions in Pentagon spending plans are a warning that St. Mary’s can’t solely rely on federal defense spending.
• 3-28-14 WJZM 1400 AM (Clarksville, TN):  Fort Campbell Center to treat Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) nears completion
• 3-28-14 Tom Philpott's Military Update:  Mandatory ‘mail order’ begins for Tricare elderly
• 3-27-14 Fort Belvoir Eagle:  Belvoir hospital garners top DoD patient safety award
• 3-27-14 Baltimore Sun:  Howard, Anne Arundel join to form new Regional Transportation Agency
• 3-27-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Commander's Column -- It has been approximately 6 months since my last construction update, so in this week’s column, I plan to provide some updated information related to the many ongoing construction projects aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda
• 3-27-14 Bethesda Now:  Purple Line-Affected Communities Pushing For Mitigation Promises
• 3-27-14 Bethesda Now:  Parks Could Start Plowing Capital Crescent Trail Next Winter
• 3-27-14 Bethesda Now:  Next Bethesda Downtown Plan Meeting Is April 10
• 3-27-14 Bethesda Now:  Montgomery County Population On The Rise
  • 3-27-14 United States Census: Quick Facts about MOntgomery County -- 2013 Estimate
• 3-26-14 Gazette.Net:  Friendship Heights playground swings back to the drawing board -- Planned playground the subject of neighborhood debate
• 3-26-14 Washington Business Journal:  After nearly 3 years of delays, Quarry Springs condo project breaks ground in Bethesda
• 3-26-14 Bethesda Now:  NIH Standing Firm On Parking Ratio -- NIH’s preferred alternative for development on its Bethesda campus keeps the current one parking space per two employee ratio, despite newer standards from the National Capital Planning Commission that call for fewer parking spots to encourage more use of transit.
• 3-26-14 USO News Release:  USO Warrior and Family Center at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, Home of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Opens its Doors to America’s Troops and Healing Heroes -- State-of-the-art Warrior and Family Center will serve as a place of support and healing for active duty troops, wounded, ill and injured, their families and caregivers
• 3-26-14 Gazette.Net:   Maryland Court of Appeals refuses to hear Belward Farm case -- Nephew: Banks family weighing options
• 3-25-14 Bethesda Now:  Planners Say No To New Chevy Chase Road
• 3-25-14 Bethesda Now:  Save The Trail Group Considering Court Challenge Over Purple Line
• 3-25-14 Defense News:  US Army Leaders Push for Another BRAC Round
• 3-25-14 Nextgov:  Good News: Army Chiefs Plan ‘Smart’ Civilian Workforce Reduction
• 3-25-14 Baltimore Business Journal:  Chesapeake Innovation Center to move to Odenton by the end of the summer
• 3-25-14 Baltimore Business Journal:  Convergence Technology moves to Columbia to be closer to cyber core
• 3-24-14 Bethesda Now:  Bethesda Stormwater Pond Wins National Award
• 3-24-14 Washington Post (Associated Press):  Admiral: Navy is not pushing for BRAC
• 3-24-14 Baltimore Sun:  FBI headquarters would be boon for Md., economists say: Scope of impact would depend partly on design -- The military presence grew dramatically during the last base realignment process, or BRAC. Tens of thousands of new jobs were transferred to Fort Meade, Aberdeen Proving Ground and other installations. But Prince George's County has missed out on much of that growth, even as Northern Virginia and Montgomery County won approval for new office leases.
• 3-24-14 Washington Business Journal:  Montgomery County is offering rental assistance to life sciences, IT and cyber businesses
• 3-24-14 Bethesda Now:  Woodmont Triangle Condo Heads For Final Approval
• 3-22-14 WTOP 103.5 FM:  At summit, Purple Line buzz is confident
  • 3-21-14 Washington Post:  Focusing on a Purple Line’s economic potential, impacts
  • 3-21-14 Washington Post:  Purple Line receives federal environmental approval, allowing condemnations to begin
  • 3-21-14 Gazette.Net:  Purple Line plans making progress -- Opponents not happy with federal milestone in process
• 3-22-14 The Week Magazine:   The future of artificial limbs -- The past decade has seen huge leaps in prosthetics. How far will the technology take
• 3-21-14 Bethesda Now:  NIH To Release Details On Master Plan -- The NIH Bethesda Campus Master Plan will bring a host of projects, including building renovations, a new administration building and intersection improvements to accommodate a projected 3,000 employee increase over the next 20 years
• 3-21-14 Baltimore Sun:  Harford seeks to take advantage of 3D printing technology from Aberdeen Proving Ground -- Legislation to create regional authority will bring jobs, innovation and boost local economy, backers say
• 3-21-14 Bethesda Now:  Briefing Book Provides Facts, Figures Of Downtown Bethesda
• 3-21-14 Washington Post:  Use of public transit isn’t surging -- Commentary by David King, an assistant professor of urban planning at Columbia University; Michael Manville, assistant professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University; and Michael Smart, assistant professor of city planning at Rutgers University
• 3-21-14 Joint Base Andrews Gazette:  The Heart Of JBA Fisher House
• 3-21-14 Southern Maryland News:  Bill advances to halt wind turbines to protect Pax River -- Developer offers to turn off spinning on Eastern Shore during Navy testing
• 3-20-14 Fort Belvoir Eagle:  Belvoir partnerships benefit local communities -- Commentary by Don Carr, Fort Belvoir Director of Public Affairs
• 3-20-14 Bethesda Now:  With Federal Approval, Purple Line Clears Another Hurdle
• 3-20-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  TRICARE Service Center Goes Online!
• 3-20-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Walter Reed Bethesda Enhances Preparedness, Conducts Mass Casualty Exercise
• 3-20-14 Northern Virginia Connection Newspapers:  Let’s Be Fair about Route 1 -- Commentary by Don Carr, Fort Belvoir Director of Public Affairs
• 3-20-14 Fort Belvoir Eagle:  National Walk to Work Day is April 4 -- Base Realignment and Closure stipulations have made Fort Belvoir more walkable in recent years
• 3-20-14 Bethesda Now:  Planners Search For Millennials In Shaping Of Downtown Bethesda
• 3-20-14 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- Transport planes have a hard time finding a new home in the world of Defense, politics
• 3-19-14 Bethesda Now:  Public Space Map Documents Bethesda’s Many Pocket Parks
• 3-19-14 Washington Post:  Md. Holocaust bills targeting rail bidder would ‘complicate’ French talks, U.S. official says
• 3-19-14 Bethesda Now:  Westbard Developer Talks Mixed-Use Project, Still Must Get Sector Plan Started
• 3-18-14 Frederick News-Post:  Fort Detrick's $10 million fire -- Report: Welder may have sparked blaze at premier research lab under construction
• 3-18-14 Bethesda Now:  County Moves To Eliminate Office Vacancies With Rental Assistance
• 3-18-14 Bethesda Now:  Church Hopes To Start Apartment, Community Center Development This Year
• 3-18-14 Army Times:  Some fast food outlets closing on military bases: New federal wage rules may be factor, sources say -- McDonald’s restaurants will close at Naval Support Activity, Bethesda, Md., on March 21, said Kathleen Martin, a NEXCOM spokeswoman.
• 3-18-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  Passion for Neurosciences, helping service members, motivates Navy officer
• 3-18-14 Washington Business Journal:  Whole Foods goes all in on Walter Reed
• 3-18-14 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus Fine Print column -- For Pentagon, it’s always a tough battle to get Congress to close military bases, facilities
• 3-18-14 Washington Post:  Prince George’s wants to lure science and tech jobs with incentives
• 3-18-14 Maryland Capital Gazette:  Restoration Advisory Board -- Interested community members are invited to attend the next Fort George G. Meade Restoration Advisory Board meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Holiday Inn Express BWI, 7481 Ridge Road in Hanover.
• 3-17-14 Washington Post:  At 16th Street NW, a divisive bus-lane proposal
• 3-17-14 Frederick News-Post:  Silver Mile -- Md. 355, Md. 85 area is 'breadbasket of the county' as area grows
• 3-16-14 Washington Post:  D.C. parents press city to help fund building renovation for D.C. International school -- DCI is slated to open in the fall in a temporary space, where school leaders expect to stay until they finish renovating Delano Hall, located at the old Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest.
• 3-15-14 National Institutes of Health (NIH):  Students unlock the mysteries of the brain -- Hundreds of middle school students from the Washington, D.C., area will visit the National Museum of Health and Medicine  in Silver Spring, Md. this week for a special brain-bending experience. Alongside scientists from seven institutes of the National Institutes of Health, these students will become neuroscientists for a day as part of the 14th annual Brain Awareness Week celebration at the museum.
• 3-15-14 WJZ/CBS13 TV (Baltimore):  Weekend MARC Trains From Baltimore To D.C. Break Ridership Records
• 3-15-14 Baltimore Sun:  Southern Maryland prevails over Shore on wind turbines -- Lawmakers from Southern Maryland -- across the Chesapeake Bay -- are concerned about how the wind facility would affect Patuxent Naval Air Station,  one of the state’s largest military bases and the economic engine of that region.
• 3-14-14 Gazette.Net:   Chevy Chase power line prices have potential to shock -- Cost of undergrounding power lines in town put at more than $60 million
• 3-14-14 Gazette.Net:  Defense cuts could strike Maryland -- State reportedly is 7th-most dependent on military fund
• 3-14-14 Gazette.Net:  Leggett says Montgomery will be cautious on restoring funding -- Executive senses ‘pent-up demand’ for more money
• 3-14-14 Washington Post:  Maryland Holocaust bill could threaten federal funding for Purple Line, federal official says
• 3-14-14 Washington Post:  Flexible approaches needed to predict and regulate parking
• 3-14-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Cyber Command headed toward unified command status
  • 3-13-14 Bank Info Security:  Justifying New Federal Cyber Campus -- Top Administration Official Shares Insights on Strategy
• 3-13-14 Gazette.Net:  Town of Chevy Chase: More trees, please! -- Open space, recreation top Chevy Chase residents’ wish list
• 3-13-14 Bethesda Now:  Planning Department Will Ask For Some Changes To Purple Line Design
• 3-13-14 Baltimore Sun:  MARC to increase weekend capacity, citing rising Baltimore-Washington ridership
• 3-13-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Walter Reed Bethesda Making Advancements in Prosthetics
• 3-13-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Walter Reed Bethesda to Conduct Mass Casualty Exercise March 18
• 3-13-14 Bethesda Now:  Council Committee Approves White Flint Road Projects, Moves Up Hoya Street
• 3-13-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Military facilities get shorted as part of DoD's tough 2015 budget choices
  • 3-12-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  2015 Budget Reduces Infrastructure Spending, Official Says
  • 3-12-14 Stars and Stripes:  Pentagon officials: We need more base closures
• 3-13-14 U.S. Naval Research Laboratory:  NRL Team Works with DTRA to Better Predict Deadly Diseases
• 3-12-14 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock -- Metro: We’re getting better, really!
• 3-12-14 Washington Post:  Dr. Gridlock -- Solving D.C. traffic congestion: Would light rail be better than more buses?
• 3-12-14 CNN Money:  Military wives: My life with defense cuts -- The Pentagon is shrinking the Army to its pre-World War II size. The brunt of overall Defense cuts is being felt by military families. Housing allowance and pay raise cuts only make it worse. 5 military wives share their stories, in their own words, edited for clarity.
• 3-12-14 CNN:  The Uncounted -- One tragic number is known: 22 veterans kill themselves every day. Another is not: How many military spouses, siblings and parents are killing themselves? What is war's true toll?
• 3-12-14 CleanTechnica.com:  Navy Gets A $24 Million Pool, We Get Low Cost Wave Power
• 3-12-14 Washington Post:  In Vienna, Stroke Comeback Center helps brain injury victims like Patrick Horan
• 3-12-14 Gazette.Net:  Potential Purple Line builders to get look at bid documents next week -- Planners said light-rail system is 30 percent complete in terms of design
• 3-11-14 Gazette.Net:   Community groups may get formal spot at the table for Purple Line discussion -- Groups may form coalition on the plans
• 3-11-14 POLITICO Magazine:  A Better Way to Close American Bases -- Commentary by Gen. Norton A. Schwartz (Ret.), chief of staff for the U.S. Air Force from 2008-2012 and president and CEO of Business Executives for National Security, and William F. Murdy, chairman of Comfort Systems USA and vice chairman of the board of directors for Business Executives for National Security
• 3-11-14 Tom Philpott's Military Update:  Commissaries to be run as a business, not a benefit
• 3-11-14 CNN Money:  The Pentagon wants fewer soldiers, more technology -- The Fiscal 2015 defense budget commits to a smaller human footprint and a whole lot of new equipment
• 3-10-14 Greenville (SC) News:  Court ruling in land dispute could threaten bike trails -- Bicyclists ride on the Capital Crescent Trail. The trail, a rail-trail built on an old railbed, is popular among bicycle commuters in the Maryland suburbs of Washington
• 3-10-14 Bethesda Now:  Council Members Want Leggett’s Support For Purple Line Mitigation
• 3-10-14 Bethesda Now:  Morning Notes -- BRAC Road Project Update; Bethesda Briefing Book
• 3-10-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Veterans make up growing share of federal workforce so why is their morale faltering?
• 3-10-14 American Public Transportation Association:  Record 10.7 Billion Trips Taken On U.S. Public Transportation In 2013 -- The Highest Transit Ridership in 57 Years
• 3-10-14 Frederick News-Post:  From Frederick to Montgomery County at light (rail) speed
• 3-9-14 St. Mary's County Government:  Individuals selected to newly formed Economic Development Commission
• 3-9-14 Association of Defense Communities:  BRAC is DOD’s Preferred Method to Address Excess Infrastructure, Spokesman Insists
• 3-8-14 WRC/NBC4 TV:  Montgomery County Giving Pedestrians More Time to Cross Streets
• 3-7-14 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center:  Neighborhood News -- BRAC roadwork update
• 3-7-14 Gazette.Net:   Montgomery reinforces support for incubator tenants -- 14 companies already have found new space, official says
• 3-7-14 Fort Detrick Standard:  Restoration Advisory Board Updates Members, Community on Ground Water Testing
• 3-7-14 Fort Detrick Standard:  Fort Detrick Regulates Laboratory Waste Disposal
• 3-7-14 Baltimore Sun:  Sharp drop in federal employment expected -- Budget cuts and retirements likely to account for 14 percent decrease in workforce
• 3-7-14 Government Health IT:  Army to upgrade battlefield EMR
• 3-6-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  DOD’s Top Doc Outlines Medical Advances
• 3-6-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  Naval Support Activity Bethesda Responds to Active Shooter Drills
• 3-6-14 Walter Reed NMMC Journal:  USU’s Corner -- The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) was created more than 40 years ago to fill a void that existed in hospitals, clinics, on bases, battlefields and other places where service members needed and deserved specially trained physicians to care for their wounds.
• 3-6-14 Washington Post:  Price of Maryland’s Purple Line hits $2.37 billion, almost twice initial estimate for rail link
• 3-6-14 Frederick News-Post:  Drilling near Fort Detrick unearths unsafe groundwater
• 3-6-14 National Journal:  Congress Hates Military-Base Closings, but Can Chuck Hagel Do It Without Their Approval? -- The Defense secretary says he is studying his options
• 3-6-14 Federal News Radio 1500 AM:  Gates: Compensation, benefits more than a third of DoD budget
• 3-5-14 Washington Post:  Capital Business -- Evidence that the D.C. area really is a hotbed for cybersecurity jobs
• 3-5-14 Washington Post:  The last casualties: As a long war ends, risks still prove real
  • 3-5-14 Washington Post:  A wounded warrior’s drive: Lance Cpl. Paul Shupert’s story
• 3-5-14 Washington Post:  Montgomery County leaders support keeping Walter Reed patients’ kids at Bethesda school
• 3-5-14 Washington Post:  Agency recommends federal funding to build light-rail Purple Line in Maryland
• 3-5-14 Bethesda Now:  Purple Line Cost Estimate Goes Up By $220 Million
• 3-5-14 Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot:  Report: Virginia should embrace BRAC
• 3-4-14 Washington Post:  Walter Pincus "Fine Print" column -- In planning for the future, the Pentagon sees fewer troops and more technology
• 3-4-14 Washington Business Journal:  Kettler gets funding, will start Bethesda luxe high-rise mid-year
• 3-3-14 Gazette.Net:  Jump-starting the ‘heart’ of downtown Bethesda -- Stakeholders plan for area’s future
  • 3-3-14 Bethesda Now:  Design Workshop Provides Coloring Assignment For Residents, Developers
• 3-3-14 Bethesda Now:  Rockville Pike Towers Face Another Delay
• 3-3-14 ExecutiveGov:  Jonathan Woodson, Douglas Robb Update Lawmakers on New Defense Health Agency
  • 2-28-14 U.S. Department of Defense:  New Defense Health Agency Exceeds Goals, Officials Say
• 3-3-14 Hampton Roads Daily Press:  Can a military base-closing round help Virginia?
• 3-2-14 Washington Post magazine:  Johns Hopkins vs. MoCo farm: Whose wishes should prevail?
   
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