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PentagonPentagon Fails Audit Again, Expects To Reach Full ‘Clean’ Financial Review By 2027
The Pentagon has failed its financial audit for the third year in a row, while highlighting areas of incremental improvements as it anticipates reaching a “clean” financial audit across the […]
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PentagonBiden Announces Transition Team Reviewing Pentagon, Led By CSIS’ Kathleen Hicks
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his team leading the agency review of the Pentagon during the transition period, which will include several former Department of Defense officials and a […]
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PentagonControversial Former Nominee Tata Named To DoD’s Top Policy Job, Amid Several Resignations
The new acting secretary of defense on Tuesday tapped Anthony Tata to perform the duties of the Pentagon’s top policy job, months after the controversial nominee was withdrawn from consideration […]
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Pentagon Has Been Preparing for Transition for Last Six Months
While Emily Murphy, Pres. Trump’s political appointee who heads the General Services Administration has not yet signed a letter permitting access to government files and funds to ease the transition […]
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PentagonTrump Fires Secretary Of Defense Mark Esper
President Trump said Monday afternoon he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark effective immediately. The president said Christopher C. Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will serve as the […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDoD Releases Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy
The Pentagon on Oct. 29 released an electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) superiority strategy meant to link with the 2018 National Defense Strategy, which stressed a new era of great power competition. […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPentagon Establishes New Hypersonic Weapons Consortium, To Be Led By Texas A&M
The Pentagon said Monday it has established a new consortium to bolster research efforts with universities for hypersonic capabilities, with the department awarding Texas A&M $20 million a year to […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyArmy Releases Requirements For Upgraded Biometric Repository, Transition To Cloud
The Army on Tuesday released requirements for a new contract to upgrade, operate and maintain the Defense Department’s authoritative biometric database, the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), with plans to […]
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Esper Details New DoD Initiatives To Bolster International Partnerships, FMS Cases
The Pentagon has two new initiatives to bolster international partnerships for the shift toward great power competition with China and Russia, including a new plan for tracking development of security […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPolicy Discussions on Future Use of Autonomous Weapons Likely
As the U.S. Army recruits the other military services to participate with their systems in next year’s Project Convergence exercise to showcase significantly contracted sensor-to-shooter timelines through artificial intelligence (AI), […]