Joe Gould
Joe Gould was the senior Pentagon reporter for Defense News, covering the intersection of national security policy, politics and the defense industry. He had previously served as Congress reporter.
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Republican budget plan will ‘undermine’ US security, warns Biden admin
The Biden administration is portraying plans from Republicans to gut the federal budget as jeopardizing national security.
Defense budget playoff season: PODCAST
Defense Nerds podcast for May 20, 2019: FY20NDAA, defense appropriations, Elizabeth Warren's Pentagon reform plans, bad Game of Thrones lessons.
Senate bill would woo high-tech ninjas to military
The co-founders of the Senate’s artificial intelligence caucus introduced the bipartisan Armed Forces Digital Advantage Act as a way to establish a career track for computer scientists in the military.
3 takeaways from Thornberry’s 2020 DoD reform agenda
“We’ve made some substantial progress. We need to build and implement what we have done,” said Rep. Mac Thornberry, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Elizabeth Warren targets military-industrial complex in new plan
Elizabeth Warren railed at the military-industrial complex, and Patrick Shanahan as a symptom of it.
House Dems offer new limit for DoD’s border wall ‘slush fund’
House Democrats have announced a bill to sharply limit the Pentagon’s authority to reprogram military construction funds.
Defense firm’s ‘excess profits’ land in Congress’s crosshairs
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing excess profits by defense contractor TransDigm.
For Shanahan, it looks like a rocky road to defense secretary
Key Democrats are signaling that Patrick Shanahan, the acting defense secretary who was informally nominated for the permanent role last week, will face tough questioning.
House Democrats aim to slash DoD’s money-moving authority over Trump’s border wall ‘gimmicks’
House Democrats are proposing a Pentagon spending bill that slashes the amount of money the military can shift between accounts.
US Air Force nuclear, space programs take hit in border wall reprogramming
The Pentagon is taking $402 million from Air Force programs as part of a reprogramming effort to support the border mission.
