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The Defense Department has put a spending freeze on civilian employees’ government credit cards, according to two memos issued Tuesday and Wednesday, forcing department civilians to cancel all scheduled non-essential travel and return from…

The CIA has begun terminating some probationary employees—generally, people with one to two years on the job, who have fewer civil service protections—the intelligence agency confirmed Thursday.The firings come a week after a federal…

The Space Force’s vice chief hopes his service gets upgrades with some of the $50 billion per year that Pentagon leaders want to shift around in upcoming budgets.“We are woefully underfunded in ‘protect and defend’” systems, Gen.…

President Donald Trump vowed to bring shipbuilding “home to America, where it belongs,” while promising tax incentives and a brand-new office in the executive branch to reinvigorate the industry in his joint address to Congress on…

The Defense Logistics Agency has started firing civilian employees who were hired, transferred, or promoted within the last year or two, Defense One has learned, as part of a larger Pentagon workforce-reduction effort announced late last…

AURORA, Colo.—The leaders of the Air Force and Space Force were fired up Monday during their keynote speeches at the service’s spring conference, loudly emphasizing the necessity of a “warrior ethos,” as military leaders adjust their…

Three weeks after President Donald Trump’s extraordinary purge of inspectors general across the federal government, a document arrived in Navy Lt. Cmdr. Shannon Bencs’ email inbox.It was the day before Valentine’s Day, but what was detailed…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down on cyber- and information-operations planning against Russia, according to a U.S. official and a second person familiar with the order.The move appears to be intended…

The Defense Department’s civilian employees can expect a second email asking them to lay out what they did the previous week—and this time, they must respond, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo to his workforce.The 189-word…

DOD firingsProbationary-employee firings on hold. A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to fire thousands of recently hired and promoted federal employees. “The Office of Personnel Management does not have…