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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…

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence in a 52-48 vote, making Donald Trump's controversial nominee — whose approval appeared unlikely just weeks ago — the nation’s spy chief.Gabbard, a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Autocracies like China and Russia have at least one advantage the United States does not, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in a Pentagon town hall: They can make plans far into the future to change the global balance of power in…