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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 Pentagon's inspector general office is launching a study this month to determine whether the Navy is effectively managing a program that provides enhanced electronic warfare capabilities to help improve anti-ship missile defense.
House authorizers are pushing for the Pentagon to submit an overdue strategy to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The head of the House Armed Services Committee is urging Pentagon leaders to submit their recommendations for how to modify the Goldwater-Nichols Act before lawmakers mark up the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill.
The Pentagon needs to target duplication of effort and forgo some capabilities it may like to have in an aim to help save money, according to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Pentagon needs to focus on integrating electronic warfare tools across the joint force, according to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm seeks industry input for a program designed to use commercially available technologies to threaten military operations and personnel, according to a recent notice.
Here are a few must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Pentagon.
The Pentagon is seeking new ways to train and equip Syrians to help defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant following a failed effort last year, the head of U.S. Central Command told lawmakers this week.
Budget analysts expect that Congress will be unable to pass an appropriations bill by the start of fiscal year 2017, leading to yet another year that begins with a continuing resolution.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences an $89.4 million contract for the second and third phases of an air dominance program that seeks to develop an experimental vertical-takeoff-and-landing plane with enhanced hover craft efficiency and a more favorable lift-to-drag rate.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee intends to introduce an acquisition reform bill later this month that seeks to enhance technology development outside of programs of the Defense Department's traditional program-of-record process.
The Pentagon's special operations oversight council is a "valuable tool" for helping the Office of the Secretary of Defense better work with U.S. Special Operations Command, the services and other combatant commands, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict told lawmakers Tuesday.
Pakistan wants to use the eight F-16 fighter jets it intends to purchase from the United States for counterterrorism operations in the nation's tribal regions, Sartaj Aziz, the adviser on foreign affairs to Pakistan's prime minister, said Tuesday.
As the Pentagon determines whether to enter a memorandum of understanding with Estonia to help enhance defense cooperation, the department seeks feedback from industry on what it is like to work with the Baltic nation's procurement process.
The head of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee expressed concern that the Pentagon's fiscal year 2017 defense budget is too small to address the global security challenges facing the United States.
With the goal of testing a system designed to strike worldwide targets in under an hour using non-nuclear weapons, the Pentagon has more than doubled spending for the Conventional Prompt Global Strike capability development program.
The chief of U.S. Pacific Command says he needs more submarines to facilitate the military rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, an area of the world dominated by the world's largest ocean and an increasingly militaristic China.
The Pentagon intends to hold a meeting of its Strategic Materials Protection Board by this summer to discuss critical rare earth materials and their impact on national security with an eye toward putting together a strategy, the Defense Department's assistant secretary of defense for logistics and materiel readiness has told the Government Accountability Office.
The Defense Department's recently released 2016 operational energy strategy states that "first and foremost, the department's use of operational energy needs to focus on increasing long-term warfighting capability."
The Pentagon is planning to release a new instruction laying out details for how acquisition officials should report suspect counterfeit parts into a government and industry database.