Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman is a reporter for Inside Defense. For more than two decades -- including stints with Defense News and Armed Forces Journal -- he has covered the Pentagon, defense industry, the military budget, weapon system acquisition and defense policy formulation as well as reporting on technology, business, and global arms trade. Jason has traveled to more than 40 countries, studied medieval history at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and lives in Brooklyn.

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Daily News | January 19, 2007

Tina Jonas, the Pentagon's comptroller, has shifted $578.3 million from Army and Air Force research and development accounts to the Navy, which will manage the development of the Joint Tactical Radio System, according to previously undisclosed budget documents.

Daily News | January 19, 2007

The Defense Department has revised the economic assumptions underpinning its fiscal year 2008 budget proposal -- accounting for factors such as a weak U.S. dollar against foreign currencies and slightly higher inflation rates -- that require the military services to absorb a net loss of $2.6 billion in costs associated with this new forecast.

Daily News | January 18, 2007

The Air Force's entire roster of major weapon system programs and its $135 billion budget request for fiscal year 2008 emerged relatively unscathed from the Office of the Secretary of Defense's review last month, according to previously undisclosed Pentagon budget documents.

Daily News | January 17, 2007

In a bid to give an Air Force general at least one regional combatant command and break the Navy's tradition of leadership across the Asia-Pacific Rim, Air Force leaders are lobbying the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff to nominate an airman to lead U.S. Pacific Command.

Daily News | January 12, 2007

The Pentagon has for the first time drawn up a short list of the "most pressing" needs of combatant commanders that will be used to shape requirements for new weapon systems and is already influencing where the Defense Department invests billions of dollars for tomorrow's ships, aircraft and guns.

Daily News | January 11, 2007

Defense Secretary Robert Gates this morning announced plans to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps by 92,000 personnel in a bid to increase combat capability and relieve stress on U.S. ground forces stretched thin by the high pace of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Daily News | January 11, 2007

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has issued a raft of changes aimed at ensuring National Guard and Reserve forces remain healthy, while at the same time widening the pool of reservists available to deploy to Iraq and elsewhere.

Daily News | January 10, 2007

President Bush tonight is expected to announce plans to increase the permanent size of U.S. ground forces by as many as 90,000 uniformed personnel, the first such significant boost in end-strength since the fall of the Soviet Union, according to defense officials.

Daily News | January 10, 2007

The White House Office of Management and Budget is preparing a $5.6 billion package as part of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 supplemental spending request to pay for what senior administration officials say will be a "surge" of more than 21,000 additional troops to Iraq.

Daily News | January 8, 2007

Congress this week will take up legislation to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, including the establishment of an anti-proliferation czar in the White House, a commission to recommend options for improving defenses against weapons of mass destruction and the reinforcement of existing Pentagon nonproliferation programs.

Daily News | January 5, 2007

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker is stepping down and Gen. George Casey, head of military forces in Iraq, is the Bush administration's pick to lead the service, the Pentagon announced today.

Daily News | January 4, 2007

A senior State Department official with a key role in shaping military policy and operations is stepping down.

Daily News | January 4, 2007

The Defense Department is awaiting a massive budget boost from the White House that will pay for a substantial increase in the total size of the U.S. military, swelling the ranks of its ground forces and outfitting them with new equipment, according to Pentagon officials.

Daily News | January 3, 2007

The Defense Department last month formally established the new office of assistant secretary for global security affairs, a position that is central to the sweeping reorganization of the Office of the Secretary of Defense's policy shop that was kicked off last fall.

Daily News | January 2, 2007

Top military officials are scheduled to convene tomorrow to review a new concept for irregular warfare designed to guide improvements to the military's ability to fight unconventional campaigns.

Daily News | December 19, 2006

In a bid to retain the longstanding tradition of a unified, bipartisan staff, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the next chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has pledged to provide Republicans significantly more billets for professional staff than were allotted to Democrats while they were the minority party for the last 12 years.

Daily News | December 15, 2006

The White House must spearhead an effort to "substantially increase" the permanent size of U.S. ground forces, according to a new report that calls for the immediate deployment of seven Army brigades and Marine regiments to Baghdad to tamp down the rising violence as part of a last-ditch effort to avoid defeat in Iraq.

Daily News | December 14, 2006

The Air Force is in the early stages of establishing a new office that will focus on identifying and utilizing "disruptive technologies," which the service hopes will improve its capabilities through the use of new inventions as well as the employment of existing capabilities in innovative ways.

Daily News | December 13, 2006

Pentagon leaders are poised to approve the requirements for the Air Force's new aerial refueling tanker, a set of performance guidelines that will have a huge effect on the high-stakes competition to build 179 aircraft in a deal expected to be worth tens of billions of dollars.

Daily News | December 12, 2006

Senior U.S. and U.K. defense officials today signed an agreement to move forward on the Joint Strike Fighter program, resolving a longstanding dispute over the transfer of sensitive technologies that threatened to disrupt armaments cooperation efforts between the two allies.

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