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President Donald Trump and his defense secretary have declared their intent to oust the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of naval operations, the vice chief of the Air Force, and the judge advocates general for the Army,…

About 5,400 Defense Department employees will lose their jobs next week, the first cuts in what will ultimately be a five-to-eight-percent reduction of the civilian workforce, a Pentagon official said Friday.The cost-saving goal was…

Updated: Feb. 20, 9:55 p.m.The Defense Department is preparing for mass firings of civilian employees, according to several current employees and internal communications, bringing the Trump administration’s federal-workforce-reduction…

The Navy has been treating the private shipyards like their “corner garage,” the service’s recently departed acquisitions boss said Wednesday, instead of making investments that will keep maintenance periods predictable and as short as…

The Air Force will send an inspection team to Space Development Agency facilities to comb through records and interview employees, according to a memo obtained by Defense One, amid growing concerns over the future of the Pentagon’s…

Probationary employees working within the Department of Energy’s agency responsible for managing the country’s nuclear stockpile were among those terminated following the Trump administration’s mandate for federal entities to fire scores of…

Few would deny that the Defense Department, with its $886 billion budget and byzantine ways, could be run more efficiently. Many have called for sweeping reforms of one sort of another. But if billionaire defense contractor Elon Musk and…

President Trump's spending freeze has halted various projects at national laboratories, including one focused on threats to the U.S. electrical grid, directors of four of the labs told lawmakers on Wednesday.“We had one project…

She had a great federal job—with the Defense Department, for which she’s worked for more than 20 years—when her husband got orders to Hawaii. She found another suitable DOD job right away, though she took a pay cut. A few years later, when…

A handful of employees inside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency focused on countering disinformation, misinformation and related influence operations were recently put on administrative leave, a DHS spokesperson confirmed…