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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.
Senate defense authorizers have not received any details on the executive branch's plan to cut security spending by $400 billion over the next decade despite two requests for information from the administration, according to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI).
Yemen is the most likely place for terrorists to plan major attacks, but al Qaeda's core leadership remains a top-tier threat, according to a senior State Department official.
House appropriators have denied the White's House's $160.8 million request for a program designed to provide persistent sensor coverage of enemy ballistic missiles, becoming the second of four congressional defense committees to cut the program's funds in their entirety.
Panetta told senators today that if confirmed as the next defense secretary one of the first things he plans to do is find a way to speed up the Pentagon's push to become audit-ready.
As the Pentagon works to shift its computing services to the cloud, defense officials are considering bringing public services behind defense protections, according to the Defense Department's architect of cloud computing.
The Pentagon is on track to become audit ready by the 2017 deadline set by Congress, according to the latest version of a biannual audit readiness report released this week.
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke at the Heritage Foundation this morning about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine program, an initiative that the Pentagon has long sought to cancel.
The Pakistani military and intelligence community should be pressed on their knowledge of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts prior to the U.S. assault on his compound, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) said today.
The Pentagon needs to professionalize its uniformed acquisition corps and turn its program manager post into a career destination point to improve the role's effectiveness, an influential advisory board recommended today.
The leaders of a Senate financial management panel plan to introduce legislation that would cut wasteful IT spending, increase transparency and codify points of the White House's IT reform plan.
Congress is working to pass a defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 instead of continuing to fund the Pentagon under stopgap measures, the head of a key House defense committee said today.
Russia and the United States are “moving forward” in their cooperation on missile defense despite sharing similar concerns, a senior Pentagon official told a House panel today.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has issued guidance banning all earmarks and requiring complete transparency in the process of amending future defense authorization bills.
The Pentagon would be forced to furlough half of its staff and would be unable to pay the remaining civilian employees and military personnel if the government were to shut down due to lack of a spending plan for the rest of the current fiscal year, Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn told lawmakers today.
The inspectors tasked with checking up on Russia under a new strategic arms reduction treaty have been preparing and training but have not yet been told of their first inspection date, according the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Senior Pentagon officials admitted today that they don't know where they would hold terrorists caught outside of battle areas in light of President Obama's plan to close Guantanamo.
The Pentagon's fiscal year 2012 budget request throws its support behind adding $2.2 billion for National Nuclear Security Administration weapons activities between 2013 and 2016, according to a summary of the request posted on the White House's website.
To better adapt rapidly to changing situations, the Pentagon should implement a block-upgrade strategy in fielding key capabilities, incorporate more "red teaming" in exercises and testing and insert small groups into select countries to improve its understanding of an area's culture and other issues, according to the Defense Science Board.
The Defense Science Board this year will launch a study of cloud computing, according to the board's chairman.
The Pentagon intends to make a "stronger commitment" to the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles program in its soon-to-be-released budget request as it establishes a new approach to space acquisition, Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn said today.