Inside the Pentagon highlights

Here are some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Pentagon:

1. Pentagon officials told lawmakers this week they will soon provide Congress with a state-by-state list of military construction projects slated to be deferred so $3.6 billion can be tapped to build a wall on the southern border.

Full story: DOD to give Congress state-by-state list of MILCON projects being deferred for border wall

2. The Pentagon has delineated exactly how the chief information officer and the chief management officer will share overseeing the Defense Department's $42 billion in annual IT spending, according to DOD officials.

Full story: Pentagon delineates responsibilities over $42 billion IT budget

3. The Pentagon has 19 pathfinders, ranging from individual weapon systems to program executive offices, leveraging the work of a new initiative to make agile software development tools available across the Defense Department, according to the official in charge of the effort.

Full story: DOD boosts agile software development with 'DOD DevSecOps Initiative'

4. The head of U.S. Strategic Command said this week that regardless of where the Defense Department locates a new combatant command for space, a portion of that work will continue to be performed at STRATCOM headquarters in Nebraska.

Full story: Hyten indicates SPACECOM will retain space ops hub at STRATCOM HQ