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Lisbeth Perez

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Lisbeth Perez is a MeriTalk Senior Technology Reporter covering the intersection of government and technology.
Space NASA Satellites

The conferenced version of the fiscal year (FY) 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) gives the Pentagon’s UFO sleuths three specific mandates, including expanded briefings to Congress. […]

Coast Guard

The U.S. Coast Guard has fallen short of its goals for timely evaluations of injured and ill service members and lacks key tools to track the performance of its disability evaluation system, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]

DoD
Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) logged more than $3.9 billion in total orders as of the last fiscal year, with military services continuing to expand their use of the contract, agency officials said Monday. […]

DoD

Acting Defense Department (DOD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington used her final public address in the role to announce that the Pentagon is moving to deploy Mission Network as a Service, an effort she said would unify the department’s secret-level systems in under a year. […]

workforce

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has received approval for “surgical rehiring” to fill critical vacancies left after Pentagon-wide workforce reduction efforts, Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, Cyber Defense Command commander and DISA director, said today during a media roundtable. […]

Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA

As the Pentagon pushes sweeping acquisition reforms aimed at speeding how the department buys and fields “functionally relevant capabilities,” senior officials at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) said the agency is largely on track to meet the new requirements. […]

House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise on Sunday evening for the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a sweeping defense bill that makes a major push to reform defense acquisition while adding a slate of cybersecurity provisions, measures to advance military innovation, and a new joint drone program.  […]

Space NASA Satellites

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) named 1,014 companies eligible to compete for work under the first phase of its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contracting vehicle this week.  […]

Lisbeth Perez
MeriTalk