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The D Brief: Air Force efforts, on hold; Desk deficits as workers return; Foreign-aid monitoring,…
Air Force reorganization put on hold. One year after service leaders announced changes intended to serve great power competition, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told them to put things on ice until a Trump-appointed secretary and…
Gutting of USAID is making it harder to monitor aid sent abroad, watchdog says
The Trump administration has decimated the U.S. government's ability to spot fraud and abuse in the flow of aid to other countries, according to a Monday memo from the inspector general of the lead foreign-aid agency.The memo arrives as the…
Air Force has halted work on parts of its ICBM program
Work on the command and launch segments of the Air Force’s Sentinel ICBM program are on hold while service leaders formulate a plan to restructure the way-over-budget effort to replace its aging intercontinental ballistic missiles, service…
Judge extends pause on ‘deferred-resignation’ offer
Updated: 6:21 p.m. ET.A federal judge on Monday extended his order blocking the Trump administration from implementing Trump and Elon Musk’s controversial “deferred resignations” program, just hours before the new deadline for federal…
Hegseth puts Air Force reorganization on hold
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told the Air Force to pause its planning for a sweeping overhaul until the service’s Trump-administration secretary and undersecretary are in place and have reviewed the effort.. “On Feb. 6, the…
The D Brief: Hegseth’s town hall; Trump: annex Canada; Purge reaches academies, schools; Full-year…
Autocracies like China and Russia have an advantage over the United States, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in his first Pentagon town hall. The leaders of those tightly-controlled countries can lay plans that stretch far into…
L3 unveils new low-bandwidth, high-autonomy drone swam tech
A new drone swarm piloting program from L3Harris, released today, allows a single operator to control multiple drones across several vehicle types in different domains during government-managed tests—and company officials told reporters…
Hegseth: Defense Department must return to long-term planning against strategic adversaries
Autocracies like China and Russia have at least one advantage the United States does not, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in a Pentagon town hall: They can make plans far into the future to change the global balance of power in…
The D Brief: DOD plane crash kills 4 in the Philippines; Navy pauses SAPR training; Google jumps…
One U.S. servicemember and three defense contractors perished after a surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday. “The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our…
Trump must keep arming Ukraine if he wants a good peace deal
The Trump White House briefly halted and then quietly resumed arms shipments to Ukraine amid internal disagreement over U.S. assistance for Kyiv. The administration landed on the right move, but it has remained ambiguous about whether aid…
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