The department has more than 945,000 civilian employees. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said 17 specific missions, such as military operations at the southwestern border, would be exempt from ...

The Department of Defense officials and members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team have identified about $80 million in fat – so far – that can be trimmed at the Pentagon, the agency announced Monday.

A new memo from the Defense Department's Office of Personnel and Readiness directs service members ... The agency said if it can’t get down to about 50,000 employees through these tools, a ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Sunday he is now directing all department civilian employees to respond to emails from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) asking for a recap of what ...

Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. “The Department will develop a list of potential offsets that could be used to fund these priorities, as well as to refocus the Department on its core ...

“To boost our defense industrial base ... where it belongs. We used to make so many ships. We don't make them anymore very much, but we're going to make them very fast, very soon.

The Department of Defense (DOD) told its civilian workforce to ignore billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk’s request to report their productivity.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Department of Defense (DOD)'s civilian workforce to comply with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) productivity email ...

The Jacksonville Jaguars on paper had some young and promising players on defense this past season, but the paper does not always tell the truth. The Jaguars were the second worst defense ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered ... ownership stake in Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals, which are used to create a variety of technological products. Senate Minority Leader Chuck ...

As Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a long-time DoD budget guru, put it: “The Pentagon is used to budget drills like this.” Perhaps the best comparison ...