Inside the Pentagon highlights

Here's a few must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon:

1. The House Appropriations Committee seeks to provide $500 million to an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fund to help the combatant commands enhance their ISR needs.

Full story: House appropriators provide $500M for ISR fund

2. The newest version of the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System demonstrated for the first time the ability to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target flying within the Earth's atmosphere during a test over the Pacific Ocean, the Missile Defense Agency said in a statement.

Full story: Aegis BMD tracks ballistic missile target within Earth's atmosphere

3. Expressing concern over recent findings that the Pentagon failed to establish a standard cloud computing definition and an integrated repository for cloud computing contracts, House appropriators are calling for the Pentagon's chief information officer to provide details on how these efforts are going.

Full story: House panel seeks details on DOD's plans to define cloud computing