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 | June 27, 2024

Army criminal investigators -- supported by other law enforcement agencies -- raided offices of at least one defense contractor in Florida this week as part of a “substantial” probe, according to one source, into irregularities that appear to involve a major supplier of simulation and training equipment.

Daily News | June 26, 2024

The Next Generation Interceptor program is facing potential cost overruns, design issues and schedule delays in the Missile Defense Agency's accelerated development of a new weapon system intended to shield the United States from North Korean and Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile attacks.

Daily News | June 25, 2024

The Army has taken delivery of the first complete set of hardware needed for next-generation air and missile defense capabilities -- including a more mobile Integrated Fire Control Network Relay redesigned at the 11th hour to reflect lessons from the war in Ukraine -- a kit potentially available for deployment to Guam.

Daily News | June 21, 2024

A classified ballistic missile target was able to sneak by the Army's newest radar and integrated battle command system during an operational assessment last year, a setback the service did not disclose -- but which came to light in a new report by congressional auditors on the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS).

Daily News | June 18, 2024

An influential House lawmaker is stepping up pressure on the Missile Defense Agency to tailor designs for a notional East Coast missile defense site to a location at Ft. Drum, NY, even as lawmakers last month disclosed a classified Pentagon assessment that raises questions about the efficacy of the upstate New York location to protect the nation.

Daily News | June 17, 2024

Next summer is the soonest the Army could test an initial Dark Eagle unit with a full complement of missiles, assuming the service -- and Lockheed Martin, maker of the new two-stage missile and bespoke launcher -- can successfully demonstrate an end-to-end flight of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon.

Daily News | June 14, 2024

The Pentagon this week executed the first of two planned flight tests to calibrate new space-based sensors recently placed in orbit as part of the U.S. military’s latest efforts to assemble a suite of new technologies to counter long-range hypersonic glide vehicles.

Daily News | June 13, 2024

The Air Force is ratcheting up the estimated cost to put new commercial engines on the legacy B-52 bomber fleet, publicly disclosing for the first time a nearly $1 billion increase in the procurement cost for the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program.

Daily News | June 12, 2024

The Biden administration says a proposed funding cut by a House committee would impede combatant commanders' ability to counter sophisticated air and missile threats by blocking the Army from integrating the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system with the service's new Integrated Battle Command System.

Daily News | June 11, 2024

The Missile Defense Agency is exploring options to re-tool existing weapons in the U.S. inventory to counter ultra-fast maneuvering threats as an interim hypersonic defense capability in the next five years while developing an objective weapon system -- the Glide Phase Interceptor -- that will not be ready before 2035 at the soonest.

Daily News | June 6, 2024

The Missile Defense Agency plans to begin work on tracking technology as a first step in a potential project that could build the case for arming uncrewed aircraft with a next-generation airborne laser powerful enough to defeat long-range ballistic missiles, according to a senior official.

Daily News | June 5, 2024

The Missile Defense Agency is taking steps to re-establish a deputy director position occupied by a two-star general or flag officer, a new statutory requirement for the organization that oversees 9,000 government and contractor personnel as well as a $10 billion annual budget.

Daily News | June 4, 2024

The Pentagon believes the time has come to revisit the potential for very-high-flying lasers to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles early in flight, and is programming funding in fiscal year 2026 to explore putting directed-energy technology -- in the "upper hundreds" of kilowatts -- above the clouds to explore a next-generation airborne laser.

Daily News | May 30, 2024

The Air Force has secured backing in draft legislation for new-start procurement authorization in fiscal year 2025 of the Secondary Launch Platform-Airborne (SLP-A) for the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, even as the Pentagon works to revise the program in the wake of cost growth that triggered a statutory acquisition review.

Daily News | May 29, 2024

A key House lawmaker has endorsed a small but significant new-start request by the Army in fiscal year 2025 that promises outsized improvements in the U.S. military's ability to conduct air and missile defense and potentially more by authorizing first-ever procurement funding for the Remote Interceptor Guidance-360.

Daily News | May 28, 2024

The Pentagon is finalizing a new update of seminal missile defense governance policy mandated by law to replace a controversial memorandum advanced during the Trump administration that curtailed the Missile Defense Agency's autonomy by elevating approval authority for key activities to senior Defense Department officials.

Daily News | May 23, 2024

The Defense Department is conducting a new cost estimate for the Next Generation Interceptor, spiking the $17 billion price tag calculated more than three years ago to reflect the accelerated source selection last month and deliver findings to support a major acquisition milestone for the homeland missile defense program later this year.

Daily News | May 22, 2024

The Joint Staff has established a new high-level panel to sharpen thinking about force design -- a group the Pentagon's No. 2 military officer predicts will become "one of the most important" Defense Department bodies -- with an aim to influence future weapon system investment plans.

Daily News | May 20, 2024

The U.S. military and Lockheed Martin fired an Army air-defense missile from a Navy vertical launch tube in an on-land demonstration of a new capability that could allow the U.S. military to arm ships with the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 family of missiles, an event funded by a classified Defense Department customer.

Daily News | May 17, 2024

The Missile Defense Agency has pulled the plug on a planned upgrade of a key part of the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system, advising companies that prepared and submitted bids for a project called CODDS -- C2BMC Operational Defense Design System -- that funds previously slated for the effort have been shifted to higher-priority needs and the source selection is cancelled.

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