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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 Defense Business Board plans to present draft recommendations in January on ways to revise the department's joint requirements process, focusing on the roles of the service chiefs and the importance of system-engineer expertise, according to the board member leading the effort.
The head of the Senate defense authorization panel is rejecting further discretionary cuts to the Defense Department's budget, but supporting proposals to reform the military retirement and health care systems.
The House Armed Services Committee plans to send a letter to the supercommittee tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in savings urging the panel to leave the defense budget intact.
The House Armed Services Committee's top Democrat is calling for the debt reduction supercommittee to include “significant revenue increases” in its plans to find nearly $1.5 trillion in savings.
Following an announcement of a proposed $5.85 billion deal with Taiwan that includes upgrades to the country's F-16A/B fleet, U.S. officials said future fighter jet sales are under consideration.
Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright is joining the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Following the disintegration of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya, the general in charge of U.S. Africa Command is most concerned about extremist organizations gaining access to the regime's weapons, most notably shoulder-launched, surface-to-air missiles.
House authorizers have formed a bipartisan panel to examine defense business issues like contracting and other challenges facing the industrial base, with the goal of helping to create jobs.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) said today he would rather raise taxes than allow further defense cuts.
Further cutting the defense budget will diminish the U.S. military's ability to deter aggression at a time when China's military is on the rise, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) said today.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm has assembled an independent board to review the data collected from today's test flight of the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, which lost contact more than nine minutes into its flight.
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is seeking a list of candidates to replace Pentagon acquisition czar Ashton Carter, who has been tapped to be the new deputy defense secretary.
The need to develop a non-nuclear weapon capable of striking worldwide targets in under an hour won't go away regardless of how the Pentagon budget is cut over the next few years, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said today.
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has been tapped to be the Defense Department's No. 2 official.
A House panel tasked with addressing the Pentagon's financial management challenges will hold the first of many early Thursday morning hearings today in its quest to prepare recommendations to ensure the Defense Department meets its September 2017 audit readiness deadline.
The Defense Department is working to add armored plates to the sides of the Caiman Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles for protection against explosively formed penetrators in Iraq, said DOD acquisition chief Ashton Carter.
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said Boeing's projected cost growth on the aerial tanker program is not the Defense Department's problem.
The Pentagon must shift its cybersecurity focus from defensively protecting its networks to deterring hackers' attacks, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright said today.
The Pentagon is looking at cuts much deeper than the $400 billion President Obama seeks to strip from security spending over the next decade, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright said today.