The Army-led Biometrics Task Force now goes by the name Biometrics Identity Management Agency.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Sebastian Sprenger was the chief editor of Inside the Army until May 2016, where he primarily reported on land warfare and associated budgets, policies and technologies. A native of Siegen, Germany, he got is start in journalism at the now-defunct Westfälische Rundschau in Kreuztal. He studied at Universität Trier and elsewhere.
The Army-led Biometrics Task Force now goes by the name Biometrics Identity Management Agency.
The Pentagon has begun a review of the Commander's Emergency Response Program, as concerns remain among lawmakers about oversight of the billions of dollars spent under the effort.
Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ) yesterday queried a senior defense official about the prospects of Pentagon leaders meeting their target of achieving a clean financial audit for the entire Defense Department by 2017.
The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization does not need the ability to execute contracts on its own, a feature sought by the organization's previous director, according to a study commissioned by JIEDDO.
Sharon Burke, the nominee to serve as the Pentagon's first-ever director of operational energy plans and programs, today vowed to "promote" the use of two key energy-consumption measurements throughout the defense acquisition bureaucracy.
It was a tense hearing this morning for Solomon Watson, the administration's nominee to be general counsel for the Army.
The Army is taking a new look at the way its soldiers train foreign militaries, as a decrease in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to free up more soldiers for the task in the coming years, according to service officials.
Defense Department officials believe they need $3 billion to develop Iraq's security forces before U.S. troops withdraw from the country at the end of 2011, according to newly released Pentagon budget documents.
U.S. Joint Forces Command aims to finalize a new guidance document by the end of the year specifically designed to help ground commanders combat the threat of improvised explosive devices, according to a command official.
Defense officials are figuring out how the military's fielding goals in Afghanistan for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected class of vehicles could best be met.
The 2010 version of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Operating Environment report, released this week, omits a reference to the possibility of Mexico succumbing to violent drug cartels. Mexican officials protested the reference in the previous version of the document.
U.S. officials are in discussions with the Pakistani government to strictly regulate or even ban a chemical used extensively by one of Afghanistan's most lethal insurgent networks to attack coalition troops with improvised explosive devices, according to American defense officials.
U.S. Joint Forces Command planners believe Russia's military and economic role in world affairs will diminish within the next 10 to 20 years, and they argue Moscow's policies toward its neighbors could lead to a "frontier of instability" around the country.
As much as the idea of social network analysis is en vogue in defense circles, officials at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization still have a lot to learn in that department, according to the outfit's new boss.
Pentagon officials are taking a fresh look at the cost of the troubled Joint Strike Fighter program as they prepare for negotiations with contractor Lockheed Martin over the price tag for the jets under a proposed fixed-price arrangement.
Two combatant commanders today lauded a yet-to-be-finalized move by Defense Department leaders to formally raise the priority of military security cooperation missions -- a development that could swell the ranks of U.S. forces tasked with beefing up indigenous security forces around the globe.
NATO officials plan to tap American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. for a study examining potential European contributions to a ballistic missile defense system for the continent, according to U.S. and NATO industry sources.
Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale last week said he does not subscribe to the thinking that China would eventually overtake the United States militarily (and in pretty much every other aspect, for that matter, as pundits have suggested).
The three countries co-developing the Medium Extended Air Defense System have begun discussing a framework for the eventual production of the system following the conclusion of the program's design and development phase in 2015, according to U.S. and NATO sources.
Expecting the Joint Strike Fighter Program to breach a critical cost threshold, defense officials are moving to examine the program's "affordability," as required by a new defense acquisition law, a Pentagon official told InsideDefense.com.