Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary assignments in Memphis and near the U.S.-Mexico border that could run through next fall.
The Pentagon has clarified that troops will not be barred from wearing their uniforms at Veterans Day events during the government shutdown, despite an email screenshot circulating online that says otherwise.
The Trump administration intends to use about $5.3 billion in Defense Department spending to cover troops’ pay and housing allowance during the government shutdown, with $2.8 billion of that sum being redirected from Navy shipbuilding accounts and departmentwide research and development programs.
Veterans advocates and Democratic lawmakers slammed a recent newspaper report critical of the disability benefits system run by the Department of Veterans Affairs for “cherry-picking cases” from millions of claims properly awarded to sick and injured former service members.
A day after President Trump vowed to resume testing of nuclear weapons, the White House wasn’t answering questions about the details, leaving members of Congress, experts, and even the administration’s nominee to command U.S. nuclear forces uncertain what he meant.
Defense contractors are preparing to pour billions of dollars into President Trump's signature Golden Dome missile-defense initiative even though they have received scant details from the Pentagon about the program's technical requirements and architecture.
If the Air Force is going to have a fighter force with "low" operational risk by 2035, as it detailed in a recent report, the government is going to need to figure out a way to pick up the tab for about 400 more jets, a service official told Inside Defense.
The Air Force is telling roughly 50 airmen and Space Force guardians who had expected to separate in November that their time in the service is being extended for 60 days due to the government shutdown.
NASA began flight tests of its needle-nosed X-59 Quesst quiet supersonic research aircraft with a one-hour, seven-minute initial sortie from Palmdale, California, to the nearby Edwards Air Force Base on Oct. 28.
