Tara Murphy Dougherty

The National Defense Strategy stresses the possibility of high intensity warfare with peer nations. But do the Defense Department’s spending priorities reflect the need to modernize its forces such that it could defeat those nations?

Analysts at Govini have dissected the trends in PPE spending by the military since 2013.

Sarkis Tatigian joined the Navy in 1942. He’s been there ever since, until his death this week at the age of 96. Read about him and other Defense news in this week’s DoD Reporter’s Notebook.

Data analysts at Govini looked at five years of Defense Department spending. CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share.