Inside the Pentagon highlights

Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Pentagon:

1. Defense lawmakers have approved the lion's share of the Pentagon's request to shift billions of dollars in existing funds toward new and emerging priorities, according to a recently filed congressional response to a July "omnibus" reprogramming document.

Full story: Congress backs nearly $4B in DOD funding transfers, including new starts

2. About 70 percent of the Pentagon's $69 billion Overseas Contingency Operations account -- intended for warfighting costs -- will actually pay for "enduring" priorities that would likely continue in the absence of U.S. military operations in the Middle East, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report.

Full story: CBO says 70 percent of DOD's OCO account not really for contingencies

3. Government lawyers have sustained the Navy's decision to boot Raytheon from the Next Generation Jammer Increment 2 technology demonstration program, denying the prime contractor for the NGJ Increment 1 program a lock on the service's electronic attack business and giving Northrop Grumman and L3 a leg up in the multibillion-dollar competition.

Full story: GAO rejects Raytheon's protest, denying company a lock in NGJ program

4. Had Lockheed Martin matched the winning prices in three major programs it lost in recent months, it would have incurred losses of more than $5 billion, according to the contractor's chief executive.

Full story: Lockheed Martin: Winning prices in three programs would have generated $5B loss