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Dana Whitlock

Veterans Affairs Reporter

Dana Whitlock covers veterans affairs for Pentagon Times: VA and DoD benefits, eligibility gates and transition. She writes about rules and money precisely, from published guidance with dates.

Articles by Dana Whitlock

A hearing room in slate gray and navy as staff arrange bound budget volumes under directional daylight, an American flag behind the dais.

Defense News

HASC $1.15 Trillion Bill and DFARS Rewrite Show Pentagon Industrial Policy in Motion

Dana Whitlock

A federal records office corridor in slate gray, bound registers stacked beneath directional window light and a quiet flag.

Defense News

How a Foreign Military Sale Actually Reaches the Federal Register

Dana Whitlock

Two flight-line crew members in reflective vests walk a sunlit Arkansas runway apron past a hangar door.

Defense News

Ebbing Air National Guard Base Emerges as the Pentagon's Allied F-35 Training Hub

Dana Whitlock

A Senate hearing room in warm afternoon light, senators' nameplates and water glasses arrayed along the dais before wooden paneling.

Defense News

Senate Airland Panel Presses Army on Modernization Ahead of FY2027 NDAA

Dana Whitlock

A congressional hearing room sits quiet under slate-gray light, folders and water glasses squared on the dais before morning markup.

Defense News

House Appropriators Release $1.072 Trillion FY27 Defense Bill Ahead of Markup

Dana Whitlock

A national cemetery avenue in early light, rows of plain white markers receding behind flags at half-staff, a visitor standing quietly among them.

Veterans

VA National Cemetery Burial Eligibility and Memorial Benefits Explained From the Rules

Dana Whitlock