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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, right, talks with British Adm. Sir George Zambellas, first sea lord and the British Royal Navy’s chief of naval staff, during a reception before the HMS Queen Elizabeth ship naming ceremony in Rosyth, Scotland, July 4, 2014. The ship is Britain’s newest aircraft carrier.

SHIP NAMING

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, right, talks with British Adm. Sir George Zambellas, first sea lord and the British Royal Navy’s chief of naval staff, during a reception before the HMS Queen Elizabeth ship naming ceremony in Rosyth, Scotland, July 4, 2014. The ship is Britain’s newest aircraft carrier.

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