Shawn Brimley of the Center for a New American Security has recently joined his former boss, Michèle Flournoy, in the Pentagon's policy shop, we're told.
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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.
Shawn Brimley of the Center for a New American Security has recently joined his former boss, Michèle Flournoy, in the Pentagon's policy shop, we're told.
Pentagon officials today were scrambling to provide their assessment of a new acquisition reform bill introduced this week by Senate Armed Services Committee leaders before a Friday meeting between Defense Secretary Robert Gates and bill co-sponsor Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), InsideDefense.com has learned.
Outgoing defense acquisition chief John Young has tasked the Defense Science Board to examine how the use of modeling and simulation techniques could make the Defense Department's acquisition programs more cost effective.
Military officials believe Canadian immigration policies are creating a "favorable" environment for what the U.S. government deems to be potential terrorists seeking entry into the United States from the north, according to an internal briefing crafted by a U.S. Northern Command joint task force.
Admittedly, there are probably a few obstacles standing in the way of some kind of U.S.-Russian ballistic missile defense cooperation.
Pentagon officials are planning to enforce stricter data-security standards for sensitive but unclassified information passed routinely between Defense Department employees and contractors working on military acquisition programs, according to a previously unreported DOD memo.
Two lawmakers last week made it clear they want nothing to do with the oft-cited "hard choices" that dominate defense budget conversations these days.
Dennis Blair, the newly sworn-in director of national intelligence, yesterday joined the ranks of experts arguing more energy should be spent on securing the nation's power grid against a potentially crippling cyber attack.
A new proposal to consolidate many of the Defense Department's rapid-fielding offices will factor into a new Defense Science Board effort, kicked off today, reviewing the Pentagon's ability to meet commanders' urgent needs, according to the study chairman, Jacques Gansler.
Defense Department leaders should create a new kind of organization tasked with monitoring nascent foreign capabilities in an attempt to minimize the chances of an unexpected and potentially devastating attack against the United States, according to a panel of Pentagon advisers.
While Iran's satellite launch last Monday has defense leaders worried, the move is not necessarily a sign that Tehran already has the know-how to build a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States, according to Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Officials in the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization are preparing a classified strategic plan for Pentagon leaders that could help determine what the Obama White House will do with the multibillion-dollar organization set up to spearhead the military's fight against roadside bombs, according to defense officials and experts.
We told you yesterday about a missile defense researcher outside the government using the free Google mapping software to create pretty sophisticated visualizations.
A Stanford University researcher has joined the ranks of experts who argue Bush-era plans to station ballistic missile defense assets in Poland and the Czech Republic offer European nations less protection from Iranian missiles than defense officials have claimed publicly.
Defense Department officials can no longer "categorically" deny Government Accountability Office investigators access to foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information, according to a new Pentagon instruction.
Thanks to Google Maps and Google Earth, satellite imagery analysis has become a treasured pastime of armchair generals worldwide.
Pentagon officials can learn a lesson or two from shipping giant FedEx when it comes to preparing multibillion-dollar investment decisions in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance gear, according to a panel of Defense Department advisers.
Joint Staff officials plan to formally offer a small number of key military problem areas, distilled from a classified analysis of combatant commanders' needs, as input for the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review deliberations, according to sources.
The Defense Department's budget presentation, which usually happens on the first Monday in February, has been postponed.
Reports of new directions from NATO's top general about the conduct of counterdrug operations in Afghanistan have begun making huge waves in Germany.