Inside the Pentagon highlights

By John Liang / April 27, 2017 at 11:39 AM

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

1. The Pentagon's developmental test and evaluation shop plans to encourage programs to use tabletop exercises to help focus its cybersecurity efforts, according to the recently released annual DT&E report.

Full story: DOD's DT&E shop encourages tabletop exercises to focus cybersecurity efforts

2. Satellites the U.S. military relies on to wage war -- with the exception of those that operate on extremely high frequencies -- are at risk of being rendered inoperable by jamming and cyber attack, a "reality that should be considered a crisis to be dealt with immediately," an influential Pentagon advisory panel warns in a new report.

Full story: DSB: Vulnerability of U.S. military satellite communications 'a crisis'

3. The Pentagon's No. 2 official has tasked the Defense Business Board with two new studies examining how private sector tools could help the Defense Department reduce its overhead costs.

Full story: Work tasks DBB with two new studies to help DOD cut overhead costs

4. The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, which faced an uncertain future at the start of the Trump administration, remains a priority now that Defense Secretary James Mattis runs the Pentagon and reports directly to him in the same way it did with his predecessor, Ash Carter, who established DIUx to inject greater innovation into the acquisition system.

Full story: DIUx remains a priority under Mattis

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