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Jordana Mishory was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until May 2017, where she covered the Pentagon's science and technology programs, audit-readiness efforts, and acquisition reform. Jordana previously worked as a reporter at the Daily Business Review in South Florida, where her articles led to the institution of more diversity training for judges and underscored the fact that a program designed to represent poor people wasn't working. Jordana's work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, The Florida Bar and the Florida Press Club.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is calling for an assessment of the Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Transportation Command to determine whether efficiencies can be achieved by reorganizing or consolidating the two organizations.
Senate authorizers want the Defense Department to make a milestone A decision for the Conventional Prompt Global Strike program, which is designed to strike a target anywhere in the world in under an hour using non-nuclear weapons, and provide more details on any potential issues that could delay the future program of record.
The Defense Department's inspector general's office intends this month to begin auditing how the Defense Information Systems Agency awards contracts, according to a recent memo.
Expressing concern over recent findings that the Pentagon failed to establish a standard cloud computing definition and an integrated repository for cloud computing contracts, House appropriators are calling for the Pentagon's chief information officer to provide details on how these efforts are going.
The House Appropriations Committee seeks to provide $500 million to an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fund to help the combatant commands enhance their ISR needs.
The Pentagon is on track to be audit-ready by its deadline next fall, according to a recent report signed by Defense Department Comptroller Mike McCord and Assistant Deputy Chief Management Office David Tillotson.
House Armed Services Committee Democrats tentatively intend to support the FY-17 defense policy bill as it heads to the floor this week, but could change their minds depending on what comes out of the amendment process, according to a congressional aide.
In light of the looming fiscal bow wave in the nuclear modernization budget, House appropriators want the defense secretary to provide details on the estimated life-cycle costs associated with the Pentagon's plan to replace and sustain the nuclear triad.
As part of their efforts to improve the structure of the Defense Department, Senate authorizers have put forth a number of Goldwater-Nichols reforms that seek to clearly define the role of the combatant commands and cut general and flag officers and the senior executive service employees by 25 percent.
The Defense Department inspector general's office has terminated a planned audit intended to determine whether contractors were investigating cyber incidents in light of the department putting forth new related requirements, according to a recent memo.
The Pentagon's advanced research agency is seeking industry's input for a program that would help maximize the performance of dismounted squads in today's complex, multidomain battlefields.
The Senate Armed Services emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee wants the Pentagon to provide details on its top five acquisition priorities related to the “Third Offset” strategy.
It is too early in the legislative process to state whether Defense Secretary Ash Carter would recommend President Obama veto the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill, despite concerns over House authorizers' proposal to shift billions of dollars from the Pentagon's overseas contingency operations account into the base budget, according to a Defense Department spokesman.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm is seeking industry's input on the controlled re-entry of objects from low Earth orbit.
An influential advisory panel is recommending another round of base realignments and closures to help the Defense Department reduce excess facilities and use the savings for readiness.
In order to attract and retain top acquisition talent, the Pentagon needs to loosen strict ethics regulations and make it simpler for potential officials to get through the confirmation process, an influential advisory panel found.
Less than a day after House authorizers approved their fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill, comments made by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) regarding his dissatisfaction with the increasingly common practice of using the Overseas Contingency Operations money to fund the Pentagon's base budget priorities indicate that the stage is set for a major conference issue with the House.
In an aim to prevent a return to stovepiping and to help save money, the House Armed Services Committee wants details on the Pentagon's efforts to incorporate common components and technologies on the Air Force and Navy's strategic systems, including a date by which such a decision would be made and the plan to do so.
The House Armed Services Committee wants the defense secretary to provide insight on measures it should take to ensure that adversaries do not mistake a Conventional Prompt Global Strike launch for a nuclear one.
In light of Russia's aggression and ongoing occupation of Crimea, the House Armed Services Committee seeks to limit the cooperation between the United States and its Cold War foe and work to help Ukraine.