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 Pentagon expects to be more than 80 percent "audit ready" when an upcoming deadline arrives, Defense Department Comptroller Robert Hale told lawmakers Tuesday, though senators have expressed concern that the department is tackling the issue wrong.
The ongoing crisis in Crimea must not impact the United States' efforts to work with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and prevent fissile materials from falling into the wrong hands, according to a senior State Department official.
As the United States rebalances to the Asia-Pacific region, Asian allies should work to become more engaged in U.S. challenges around the world, according to a senior defense official.
A House Armed Services subcommittee wants to restrict U.S. Special Operations Command modernization funding until the panel receives more information on the command's intelligence activities.
The House Armed Services intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee is calling on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to brief Congress "on the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements, by specific intelligence capability type, of each of the combatant commands."
Aiming to help bolster understanding of the U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific region, two House lawmakers plan to file new legislation that requires assessments of anti-access, area-denial challenges, Chinese naval modernization and space-related strategies.
The Pentagon likely will continue to submit budget requests that do not adhere to sequestration levels laid out in the law, according to Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall.
As House authorizers prepare to mark up their fiscal year 2015 defense bill, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) wants the focus to be on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, deterrence and readiness.
More than 30 organizations are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to speed up efforts to develop rules that will allow unmanned aircraft systems' operations in U.S. skies.
The Air Force has fired nine mid-level officers and accepted the resignation of a tenth in the fallout from a cheating scandal at a Montana Air Force base that operates intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Air Force's plans to implement its newest financial management system were not comprehensive, well-constructed or credible, calling into question whether the service's cost estimates for the important program are accurate, the Government Accountability Office recently found.
The Pentagon seeks $11.5 billion for research and technology development in fiscal year 2015 -- a slight dip from the $12 billion enacted in FY-14 -- with a focus on anti-access, area-denial and the department's shift to the Asia-Pacific region, according to the budget overview released this week.
When lawmakers begin considering the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, they can question its helpfulness, the U.S. role in the world stage and the Defense Department's geographic and mission priorities, a recent Congressional Research Service report states.
Defense Department officials are looking at innovative ways to position forces around the world to buttress a smaller force size and mitigate the effects of declining defense budgets, according to the latest Quadrennial Defense Review released today.
Republican leaders of the House and Senate defense authorization committees said today there is a slim likelihood of overturning sequestration reductions even as the Pentagon prepares to present a budget that doesn't include the cuts in the outyears.
Aiming to improve how the military manages the electromagnetic spectrum, the Pentagon will seek systems that are efficient and agile when operating in limited bandwidth, Defense Department Chief Information Officer Teri Takai said today in introducing DOD's new electromagnetic spectrum strategy.
The Pentagon is working to improve the bid and selection process and enhance communication between defense officials and nontraditional suppliers in an attempt to overcome a number of perceived barriers hindering those companies' ability to do business with the department, according to a recent report sent to lawmakers.
As the Pentagon turns its attention from responding to the immediate needs of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to longer-term threats, defense officials seek to remake their rapid fielding shop into one that focuses on prototyping.
An influential advisory panel has targeted financial management, supply chain management and human capital management as areas for improvement in an effort that could save the Defense Department $27 billion to $37 billion annually over the next four to five years while improving flexibility and readiness.
In an effort to increase unmanned aircraft systems' interoperability and introduce drones into the national airspace, defense officials are eying enhanced exercises and training plans, and intend to update important guidance, the Pentagon's acquisition chief Frank Kendall tells lawmakers in a recent report.