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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.
Joint Forces Command chief Gen. James Mattis has initiated an overhaul of the Pentagon's formal process for hashing out new military concepts, arguing the Defense Department's current approach has failed to deliver marked progress for the capabilities of U.S. forces.
Adm. James Stavridis, nominated to head U.S. European Command, today told the Senate Armed Services Committee about an interesting development from his current area of responsibility at U.S. Southern Command.
A recently released Defense Department report reveals ongoing work on a handful of new strategic communication plans covering such wide-ranging topics as Pakistan, ballistic missile defense and violent extremism, but Pentagon officials are mum about the purpose and target audience of the plans.
The Joint Improved Explosive Device Defeat Organization's recently released annual report includes a line in its "Way Ahead" section that piqued our interest.
The Defense Department should cooperate more closely with China in the area of science and technology, according to a March 2009 National Defense University paper presented at a conference of DOD international acquisition experts late last month.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a handy pamphlet yesterday that explains what can be said publicly about the structure of America’s intelligence apparatus.
Defense Department officials this month released a new guide for codifying test and evaluation requirements in weapon acquisition contracts, following increased attention within the department and in Congress on steps for catching potentially costly technology problems early in the program development process.
The issue of cybersecurity pretty much dominates the discussions around information and communications technology (ICT) these days.
A far-reaching overhaul of the World War II-era National Defense Stockpile program is needed to ensure the nation has critical defense-related materials at its disposal in a time of increased global competition for resources and frequent military deployments overseas, Defense Department officials argue in a new report to Congress.
With concern about personnel costs rising at the Pentagon, here is an interesting item buried in the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 performance report, released in March: The past fiscal year marked the first time that DOD health care costs rose faster than they did in the civilian sector.
Compared with just a few years ago, traditional soft-power disciplines -- like stabilization operations and everything associated with nation-building -- now are big business at the Pentagon.
A new Defense Science Board report released this week makes mention of three relatively little-known Defense Department biodefense labs operated in conjunction with foreign governments.
Defense officials managing the military's highest-security laboratories housing dangerous biological agents should do more to protect their computer networks from unauthorized intrusion, according to a Defense Science Board report released today.
Lawmakers from both houses of Congress yesterday agreed on a consolidated defense acquisition reform bill that would mandate the new job of director of cost assessment and program evaluation, retool the Pentagon's developmental test and evaluation bureaucracy and establish a "presumption of termination" for programs with significant cost growth, according to a summary of the conference agreement.
In transmitting a raft of legislative proposals to Congress last week, Pentagon officials presented their vision for a network of land, air and sea supply routes to Afghanistan they deem instrumental to supporting a "sizable, sustained force level" of military personnel and civilians in that country for years to come.
Defense Department efforts to modernize key business systems and processes have reached the slowest pace in four years because questions surrounding the responsibilities of senior DOD and service management officers are unclear, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Pentagon officials are asking Congress for the one-year renewal of a soon-to-expire authority under which officials may pay foreign tipsters through allied government representatives, according to a string of legislative proposals sent to lawmakers last week.
Pentagon officials are asking lawmakers to make permanent a temporary program for sharing Defense Department data on satellite flight paths with private companies and foreign governments, according to DOD's latest string of legislative proposals.
The Army's new biometric identification system, introduced in January, has "exceeded" the service's expectation during its relatively short time in the field, enabling fingerprint examiners to take on more cases in support of worldwide U.S.
Pentagon officials are establishing a new effort to apply competitive business principles in crafting America's long-term security strategies, according to Defense Department officials and fiscal year 2010 defense budget documents.