Author

Margaret Reyes

Policy Reporter

Margaret Reyes covers defense policy for Pentagon Times: authorization bills, appropriations, export controls and oversight. She explains each clause with the dates and figures that decide programs.

Articles by Margaret Reyes

Morning light falls across a quiet row of federal office doors and an American flag, where a defense civilian in business attire checks a folder on her way inside.

Policy

How the Pentagon Manages Its Civilian Workforce, From Hiring to Reductions

Margaret Reyes

A warehouse aisle of sealed steel drums and stacked crates under fluorescent light, a worker's clipboard on the railing.

Policy

Stockpiling and Industrial Reserve Policy Explained Through the Defense Production Act

Margaret Reyes

A row of national flags outside a slate-gray alliance headquarters under low directional daylight.

Policy

How NATO Burden-Sharing Actually Works: From Wales 2 Percent to Hague 5

Margaret Reyes

Overhead view of a long conference table in a Pentagon-adjacent office, program binders fanned open under cool window light.

Policy

POM Explained: How the Pentagon Builds Its Five-Year Defense Spending Plan

Margaret Reyes

An empty Capitol hearing room in navy and off-white, morning light crossing rows of committee desks.

Policy

NDAA Process Explained: How the FY2026 Defense Authorization Became Law

Margaret Reyes