Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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 Army has received approval from service leadership to fund block 2 of its ground-based, sense-and-avoid system -- which enables unmanned aircraft systems to fly without a visual observer -- in fiscal year 2017 through 2019, according to officials spearheading the effort.
The Pentagon's efforts to audit the military departments' fiscal year 2015 finances have discovered problems with incomplete universes of transactions, weak information technology controls and insufficient support infrastructure, according to a new report.
Figuring out how to fund the upcoming nuclear modernization bow wave will be the greatest acquisition challenge facing the next administration, according to Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord.
The federal government has withheld from industry 9 percent of cyber vulnerabilities found over the past year because secret knowledge of them could prove advantageous in the future, according to Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and chief of U.S. Cyber Command.
The shrinking number of domestic microelectronics manufacturers is causing concern among defense officials and lawmakers, who worry that foreign companies could use such parts as a Trojan Horse to introduce kill switches or other vulnerabilities into weapon systems.
The Pentagon continues to discuss accelerating the acquisition time line for future vertical lift, though fiscal realities remain challenging, according to Ned Chase, the team lead for the FVL Science & Technology Integrated Product Team.
As the House Armed Services Committee looks to continue emphasizing acquisition reform in the new fiscal year, lawmakers worked to bolster their case for shorter acquisition timetables during a Tuesday hearing.
The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee believes President Obama will stick to his threat to veto the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill -- and that lawmakers will not have the votes to override the White House.
The Pentagon has established an interim final rule to mandate that all Defense Department contractors quickly report cyber incidents involving critical defense information.
In order to better operate in the cyber arena, the Pentagon needs to create cyber rules of engagement and consequences for certain actions, according to Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen.
The Pentagon continues to reassess its plans for training and equipping Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Defense Department Press Secretary Peter Cook said Tuesday, noting that there have been "hard lessons" learned.
Former Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale is calling on Congress to find a compromise to sequestration and pass a fiscal year 2016 spending bill to avoid some of the financial chaos that befell the Pentagon during his tenure.
Coming off his trip to Silicon Valley, Defense Secretary Ash Carter is preparing to sell the force of the future.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday the White House's attempts to push through a nuclear agreement with Iran does not alter his recommendation that the president should veto the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill.
The Pentagon's top weapons tester gave a broad and fiery speech Wednesday, criticizing acquisition system bureaucracy and stressing that "testing is not a game to be won."
The Federal Aviation Administration's proposed rule to integrate small unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace is running behind congressional plans, potentially putting the United States behind other advancing nations, the Government Accountability Office wrote in a recent report.
The Defense Department should scale up three existing corporate engagement programs to help accelerate innovation, according to new recommendations approved by an influential advisory panel Thursday.
A Defense Business Board task group will provide an update this week on an ongoing effort to find ways the Defense Department could reduce the cost of its real property inventory -- which is estimated to cost more than $30 billion to maintain and operate each year.
The Pentagon is appealing proposed legislation that calls for including non-federal employees on a council designed to advise the defense secretary on business processes, according to documents obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The nominees to become the next chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have pointed to Russia as the biggest threat facing the United States in subsequent hearings -- a comment that admittedly caught some lawmakers by surprise.