Just a few years ago, defense officials said they hadn't the faintest idea of how many contractors were working for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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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.
Just a few years ago, defense officials said they hadn't the faintest idea of how many contractors were working for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Senior Defense Department leaders should step up the military's research activities aimed at understanding foreign cultures, an issue that should feature prominently during the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review, according to a group of Pentagon advisers.
U.S. Central Command officials have proposed a new contract-management organization with an expanded focus on supporting operations in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan as leaders in Washington hammer out a new security strategy for the region, according to sources and documents.
The Levin-McCain acquisition reform bill still has Pentagon officials busy assessing the legislation's potential implications, we're told.
The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) is looking for new gear that might come in handy during counterterrorism operations, according to an announcement released by the organization this week.
Michèle Flournoy is scheduled to make her first public appearance as the under secretary of defense for policy at a March 27 event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, we're told.
In a speech at the National Defense University yesterday, CSIS scholar Anthony Cordesman had this to say about the Quadrennial Defense Review: (Consider yourself warned.)
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn so far has not convened a senior decision-making panel positioned by his predecessor as a pivotal organization in overseeing the process of capability portfolio management, according to several sources.
Officials in the Joint Staff's Military Education Coordination Council last month recommended three new focus areas where officials believe increased attention is needed in military schoolhouse curricula this year, we're told.
The Pentagon isn't the only federal agency basing a good portion of its strategy on doomsday-like scenarios.
Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale last month routed $192 million from the Counterintelligence Field Activity, dismantled last August, to the Defense Intelligence Agency after lawmakers moved last fall to continue funding the controversial office during fiscal year 2009, according to officials and documents.
Pentagon officials are still in the process of developing and assembling a set of security-related, what-if scenarios expected to help shape the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review deliberations, according to sources.
Defense officials plan to use this year's defense budget cycle to orchestrate a push for new resources and legislative authorities in the field of space situational awareness for military and commercial spacecraft, sources said.
Development of the Air Force's first-ever cyberspace doctrine appears to have hit a snag, and officials are mum about the cause of the hold-up.
Officials at U.S. Strategic Command have begun studying the potentially sweeping implications of a little-noticed provision in the 2008 Unified Command Plan that puts the Omaha, NE-based command in charge of monitoring the flight paths of both U.S. military and commercial satellites for potential collisions, according to Defense Department officials and documents.
All signs point to an increased emphasis on energy issues at DOD, perhaps even in the context of the Quadrennial Defense Review.
The ink on the press release announcing the Levin-McCain acquisition reform bill last week had barely dried when the allegedly slow-as-molasses Pentagon bureaucracy moved with lightning speed to pick the legislation apart for what one official called "can't-live-with" items.
Defense Department officials this spring plan to propose a new regulation aimed at enforcing the secure handling of unclassified DOD program information by defense contractors, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
The beginning of the week had some bad news in store for the presidential helicopter program.
Canadian government officials have rejected allegations by a U.S. Northern Command task force that called Ottawa's immigration policies "favorable" toward individuals classified by the U.S. government as would-be terrorists.