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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…

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to rescind directives that caused the mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees, ruling that the issuing agency had no such power to do so.“The Office of…

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…