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Jennifer Hlad

Managing Editor, Defense One

Jennifer Hlad
Jennifer Hlad is managing editor at Defense One and lives in Kailua, Hawaii. Hlad was a Stars and Stripes reporter at the Pentagon and West Coast bureau chief in California before traveling with her Marine Corps husband to posts in Manama and Okinawa, all the while working a mix of assignments with Air Force Magazine, the Daily Beast, Military Times and other publications. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia, and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Contact her on Signal at jhlad.25.
Contracts

Long-sought goal of better Pentagon buying may finally be within reach

A new executive order seeks to overhaul defense buying. A handful of innovators within the Defense Department are already showing the way.

  • By Patrick Tucker and Jennifer Hlad
Contracts

Defense acquisition, exports, and shipbuilding figure in trio of new executive orders

The White House orders up plans and proposals for reducing costs and stimulating the industrial base.

  • By Bradley Peniston and Jennifer Hlad