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Navy secretary nominee John Phelan has no military experience, but he was speaking the language Thursday during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.He called “people our most precious resource,” vowing to “restore operational…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed Pentagon officials to cut their planned budgets by 8 percent and redirect those funds to new priorities. But the Air Force doesn’t have much to draw funding from, a service official…

U.S. manufacturers beyond the traditional defense prime contractors—like carmakers—should get Defense Department money to take a crack at building weapons, even at the expense of near-term competition, President Trump’s nominee to be the…

During his January confirmation hearing, Dan Driscoll dismissed the idea that President Donald Trump would issue an unlawful order, but said he wouldn’t follow one anyway.If such a situation does arise, the Army veteran who won Senate…

Conservative podcaster Graham Allen started a new job at the Pentagon on Monday, as the Defense Department’s digital media director, a Defense official who was not authorized to speak on the record told Defense One.According to an email…

The selection of John Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may signal a new emphasis on irregular warfare, covert and clandestine operations, enabling swifter action with fewer legal constraints and less congressional…

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…