Boehner May Delay Leadership Vote

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) may delay the vote for the No. 2 and No. 3 leadership slots to let unrest in the GOP settle and to perhaps change internal party rules forcing candidates to resign current chairmanships and leadership slots to run for new office, reports Politico. The vote to replace Speaker Boehner is scheduled for Thursday.

DoD wants legislation to hinder mergers between primes, fearing too few defense contractors will work more to corporate advantage than military benefit, reports Defense News. Lockheed Martin’s purchase of Sikorsky prompted the renewed concerns, reports Breaking Defense.

The employer with the largest layoffs so far in 2015 is the Army, which ranked in the first and third spots of Fortune’s list of the 10 biggest layoffs, already ahead of all of last year.

An F-35C released four 500-pound GBU-12 laser-guided bombs from its wings for the first time, reports DoD Buzz.

US forces “may have caused collateral damage” to a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, reports Defense.gov. DefSec Ash Carter says a full investigation is underway.

The first female Blue Angel pilot says she isn’t a celebrity, she’s a Marine, reports Military.com.

President Obama says the two-month continuing resolution he signed to keep government open is the last he will sign, reports The Hill.

A Gallup and Google report finds only a quarter of US schools offer computer programming despite the growth of  high-paying computer science jobs throughout the world, reports NextGov.

Poor people aren’t getting as many free benefits from the federal government as the wealthy and middle class, reports FiveThirtyEight.com.