Department of Defense

The Illinois native most recently served as Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush

The highly anticipated intelligence report released by the Department of Defense on Friday said it did not have sufficient data on “unidentified aerial phenomena” spotted from 2004 to 2021.

The nation’s top general says he is now open to considering a proposal to take decisions on sexual assault prosecution out of the hands of military commanders

An off-duty Pentagon police officer charged with murder in the shootings of two men outside a Maryland condominium building is facing separate assault charges stemming from an earlier incident at the same complex. Takoma Park Police Department detectives obtained video that shows David Hall Dixon assaulting a woman with a gun at Takoma Overlook Condominiums on May 6, 2020, the…

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has made his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, and he says the Biden administration wants to see “a responsible end” to America’s longest war

The inspector general for the Department of Defense is investigating the Trump administration’s last-minute decision to relocate U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama

Department of Defense officials on Wednesday said they expect the doses to arrive as early as next week. They said they plan to administer shots within 20 to 48 hours from when the vaccine gets approval.

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to lead the Defense department. Here are five things to know about the former four-star officer.

President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that he had terminated Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and replaced him with Christopher Miller, the current counterterrorism head.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prepared a letter of resignation, according to three current defense officials.

The Department of Defense shared the preliminary results of “Operation Blood Rain,” which aims to see if blood supplies can be air dropped into war zones.

The Pentagon officially declassified three videos on Monday showing “unidentified aerial phenomena.”

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, the Pentagon is imposing new travel restrictions on employees, including service members and their families, NBC News reports.

The branch of the U.S. military that oversees information technology and communications has suffered a potential breach of service members’ personal information, NBC News reported.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East

Amazon is seeking to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis over a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract awarded to Microsoft.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday fired the Navy’s top official, ending a stunning clash between President Donald Trump and top military leadership over the fate of a SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq. Esper said he had lost confidence in Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and alleged that Spencer proposed a deal with the White House behind his back...

A former White House official said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s top European envoy was sent on a “domestic political errand” seeking investigations of Democrats, stunning testimony that dismantled a main line of the president’s defense in the impeachment inquiry. In a riveting appearance on Capitol Hill, Fiona Hill also implored Republican lawmakers — and implicitly Trump himself — to...

When questioned about the potential for conflict of interest with children of government officials, former White House adviser Fiona Hill stated that “any family member of any member of the U.S. government, Congress or the Senate is open to all kinds of questions about optics.”

At least 60% of U.S. Superfund sites are in areas vulnerable to flooding or other worsening disasters of climate change, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to directly acknowledge global warming is deterring efforts to safeguard them, a congressional watchdog agency says. In a report being released Monday, the Government Accountability Office called on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler to...