Senior defense officials must enhance their oversight of the acquisition and requirements process for cloud computing, according to a provision in the newly enacted defense authorization law.
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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.
Senior defense officials must enhance their oversight of the acquisition and requirements process for cloud computing, according to a provision in the newly enacted defense authorization law.
U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking industry's help to enhance a variety of reconnaissance, surveillance and exploitation research and development efforts.
In a bid to help enable “revolutionary advances” in space domain awareness, the Pentagon's advanced research arm is soliciting information from industry to help build and deploy sensors to detect low-inclined low-Earth orbit objects, according to a new notice.
House and Senate authorizers seek to enhance oversight of U.S. Special Operations Command's acquisition process.
The chairmen of the House and Senate defense authorization committees today announced an agreement to pass a fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill before lawmakers adjourn for the year.
Future space efforts could be hindered by an aging workforce without adequate replacements and not enough investment in research and development, the department's acquisition chief Frank Kendall tells lawmakers in a new report.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm is engaged in a series of programs to help combat the overwhelmingly restrictive cost of operating in space, said Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Arati Prabhakar.
Although open architecture helps the Defense Department increase competition and ward off obsolescence, its use should not be mandated, according to the Pentagon's systems engineering chief.
The Federal Aviation Administration today released its first annual roadmap how to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the U.S. airspace.
Pentagon Deputy Chief Management Officer Beth McGrath has announced that she plans to step down from her post at the end of the month, Defense Department spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban said.
The Pentagon is working on a strategy to help coordinate cyber and electromagnetic-spectrum capabilities with an initial goal of surveying all ongoing programs in these portfolios, according to the Pentagon's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research Reginald Brothers.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is eying ways to better protect the intelligence community in any future potential government shutdowns.
U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking industry input to help upgrade the cockpit of the A/MH-6 Mission Enhanced Little Bird helicopter.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm is seeking input to develop and enhance autonomy and collaborative operations in a bid to increase mission effectiveness, reduce costs and enhance the survivability of unmanned aircraft systems.
Pentagon officials are coordinating draft policy guidance that would help formalize oversight of the military's arsenals within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and require the annual identification of critical capabilities and sustaining workloads, the Defense Department's logistics and materiel readiness office told lawmakers in a recent report.
The intelligence community must make more strategic, lasting decisions about cutting its budget as it faces the realization that sequestration will most likely last more than one year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said today.
The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee said today that a key defense acquisition reform law passed four years ago that focused on weapon system requirements, costs and schedules has helped the Defense Department stabilize and improve acquisition, pointing to anecdotal "satisfaction."
The Pentagon's advanced research arm is seeking industry input for an unmanned undersea system that will help insert multiple remotely piloted air and underwater vehicles into operational environments.
The nation's top military leader has committed to Congress that the Pentagon will work on streamlining its requirements and acquisition processes and enhancing the involvement of service chiefs.
Despite concerns from lawmakers, Pentagon officials do not want to modify a training authority for special operations forces, expressing concern that such changes could detrimentally impact the important program.