News Team
Jared Serbu

Jared Serbu

Deputy Editor/DoD Reporter

Jared Serbu has been covering the Defense Department since 2010 and has filed hundreds of stories on DoD’s contracting, legislative, workforce and materiel issues. Jared has produced multiple news series, which included investigating DoD’s shrinking footprint and the Goldwater-Nichols Act: 25 years later. Jared also hosts On DoD, a weekly interview program with DoD officials.

AP/Jenny Kane

Pentagon chooses 8 new ‘hubs’ to lead $2B effort to revitalize US microelectronics

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81st Training Wing Public Affair/Kemberly GroueU.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rashawn Duffy, 37th Training Wing Detachment 5 military training instructor, presents a coin to an Airman during the basic military training coining ceremony outside of Erwin Manor at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, May 14, 2020. Nearly 60 Airmen from the 37th TRW Detachment 5 completed the six-week basic military training course. Due to safety concerns stemming from COVID-19, the Air Force sent new recruits to Keesler to demonstrate a proof of concept to generate the force at multiple locations during contingencies. The flight was the first to graduate BMT at Keesler since 1968. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)

Air Force to fall short of recruiting goal for first time since 1999

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Frank Kendall

Air Force launches wide-ranging review to ‘reoptimize’ itself for future fights

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Amelia Brust/Federal News Networkcybersecurity, intelligence, network, computers, technology

Study finds major shortcomings in Air Force processes to test AI technologies

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 10, 2009) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Ryan Allshouse uses the intrusion detection system to monitor unclassified network activity from the automated data processing workspace aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). IDS is part of the integrated shipboard network system and serves as an important computer network defense enabler protecting the unclassified shipboard network from cyber attack.  (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released)

Navy says it’s achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to ‘fix our computers’

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defense budget

DoD’s budget challenges will take years to fix, but reform commission says now’s the time to start

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