Pentagon announces it plans to fire 5-8% of civilian workforce
The Pentagon announced Friday it plans to ultimately fire five to eight percent of the military’s approximately 950,000 ...
Defense officials fear impending Pentagon firings could break law and hurt military readiness
Some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be terminated as soon as this week ...
Trump wants attack subs. The rest of the $50 billion Pentagon budget shuffle is a question mark for the Navy.
Pentagon leadership is talking about taking funds from legacy programs for Trump's priorities. Beyond attack subs, there's ...
Defense Secretary Hegseth working with DOGE to cut the 'BS'
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a video Thursday detailing oncoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ...
Trump administration fires raft of top military officers in unprecedented purge
Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five ...
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Defense Department Burns Elon Musk With Defiant Statement on X Telling Employees to Ignore His Email Demand to Justify Their Jobs
The email Elon Musk directed to be sent to all federal employees is getting pushback from President Donald Trump's appointed agency heads, notably including the Department of Defense, which posted a ...
A New Kind of Defense Secretary Saves His Ammunition for Domestic Enemies
Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...
Pentagon hits pause on plan to carry out mass firings of civilian employees, officials say
The Defense Department has temporarily paused a plan to carry out mass firings of civilian probationary employees until Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel ...
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Lawmakers press Hegseth about cost, morale, readiness impact of border operations
DoD has estimated that the southern border operations will cost $1 billion over eight months. GAO found DoD didn't have reliable cost estimates in the past.
As Elon Musk eyes Defense Department, conflicts of interest, accounting issues loom
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Elon Musk was "welcome" to the Pentagon. How will he approach its deep budget problems ...
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Defense Secretary Hegseth brings back Fort Bragg name, with a different namesake
(CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023.