In this week’s Pentagon Beat roundtable, Brendan McGarry, managing editor at Military.com, and Marcus Weisgerber, global business editor for Defense One, discuss the defense community’s top headlines.

David Shedd, former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and board member at Beacon Global Strategies, discusses what’s causing the massive backlog of government security clearances, and potential solutions to the problem.

At the 2017 AMSUS Annual Conference in National Harbor, MD, Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams discusses the top priorities of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General.