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Trump orders agencies to plan widespread layoffs and reduce hiring
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that will require federal agencies to severely curtail hiring, once the current freeze is lifted, and to develop new plans to implement widespread layoffs across government. The…
Congress wants the Army to start collecting more open-source intelligence
Buried deep in the 2025 National Defense Authorization is a short provision suggesting that the Army might—maybe, if it feels like it—look into standardizing the way it procures open-source intelligence-collection software.The provision…
Teach how to think, not what to think
“The U.S. Service Academies and other defense academic institutions shall teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered late last month.…
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…
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