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Marjorie Censer was Inside Defense's editor until July 2021. She previously worked at the Washington Post and its local business publication Capital Business, covering defense industry reshaping, the increased scrutiny of contractors following the Edward Snowden case and the challenges of canceling military programs. From 2007 to 2010, she was managing editor of Inside the Army. She also previously worked as defense editor at POLITICO and as a staff writer at the Carroll County Times and the Princeton Packet. A Fairfax native, she graduated from Princeton University.
While key elements of the Army's brigade combat modernization effort are on track, the service must provide "additional clarity" on its plans for follow-on efforts as well as the transition of integration activities from contractors to the Army, according to a new memo from Pentagon acquisition executive Ashton Carter.
The Defense Department has amended a $600 million reprogramming filed last month for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle program, shifting slightly more procurement funding and slightly less research, development, test and evaluation money, according to Pentagon documents.
Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Michael Brogan on Monday criticized an argument advanced by a Lexington Institute analyst, Loren Thompson, who Brogan said indicated in a recent report that there would be "potential conflict" between the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle program and the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles "rebuy" effort, both won by Oshkosh.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates held a meeting this afternoon to bring together "all the disparate elements" of the Defense Department that seek to fight improvised explosive devices in an effort to address the IED problem in Afghanistan, DOD spokesman Geoff Morrell said today.
President Obama has nominated Army Maj. Gen. Michael Oates for a third star and the position of director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, the Pentagon announced today.
The Defense Department is likely to order at least 1,000 more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles early next week, program officials said today.
During an event highlighting a display of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle today at the Pentagon, military officials found themselves talking about an entirely different kind of truck: the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles.
As the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization adapts its mission to the challenges of Afghanistan, the organization is pushing back against a new Government Accountability Office report critical of its limited visibility over some of the military's counter-IED efforts.
The Government Accountability Office earlier this month denied Telephonics' protest of the Vehicle Intercommunication System Expanded contract award to Northrop Grumman, a GAO representative confirmed today.
The Obama administration today announced the president has nominated Philip Coyle, a former Pentagon operational test and evaluation director, to serve as associate director for national security and international affairs in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Though the Pentagon has taken steps to improve the way analyses of alternatives are conducted, the Government Accountability Office contends the Department of Defense still has work to do to ensure AOAs successfully inform the business case for starting new programs.
The Defense Department is shifting nearly $600 million from its Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle fund to pay for government-furnished equipment, upgrades and sustainment of the trucks.
The House Armed Services air and land subcommittee will wait to review the Government Accountability Office's findings on the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles award, declining a congressman's request that the panel hold a hearing on the matter.
The Pentagon announced today that Army Brig. Gen. William Phillips has been nominated for a third star and assignment as military deputy and director of the Army Acquisition Corps in the service's acquisition office.
BAE Systems has filed a second supplemental protest in the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles "rebuy" award after receiving the Army response to the original protest, company officials said today.
Facing similar problems to those of General Motors a year ago, the Defense Department should begin reining in personnel costs and rethinking the way it buys weapons, according to a report released today.
A Texas congressman is calling on key House defense panels to hold hearings on the Army's recent award of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles contract to Oshkosh, citing a "myriad of questionable actions and inactions" in the award.
The Army -- incorporating soldier feedback -- has successfully adapted the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle to meet ever-changing theater requirements, Brig. Gen. Robert Brown, deputy commanding general for Multinational Division-North and the 25th Infantry Division, said today.
More than 700 industry representatives from more than 360 companies attended the Army's first industry day on the ground combat vehicle, set to replace the terminated Future Combat Systems manned ground vehicles, according to an Army official.
The Army is readying for a significant turnout this week at the first industry day on the ground combat vehicle, the service's successor to the canceled Future Combat Systems manned ground vehicles effort.