The move to install Darren Beattie as the institute’s new acting president is seen as the latest step in the administration’s ...

Chaos in the Pentagon over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s indecision and flip-flopping prompted President Donald Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump referred to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War on a TruthSocial post Friday.

Senate confirms Gen. Mike Guetlein as director of the Office of Golden Dome, enhancing U.S. missile defense against advanced ...

The National Security Act also created the United States Air Force, also under the purview of the secretary of defense. The Department of Defense would gain its current name when the National ...

The United States has taken a significant step in the development of cost-effective aerial capabilities by unveiling its own ...

Official websites use .mil A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States ...

The unexplained removal of the first female head of the U.S. Naval Academy last week is the latest in a string of top military women who have either been fired or redelegated to largely invisible ...

President-elect Joe Biden has named retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as his nominee for secretary of defense, the Biden transition team announced Tuesday.. The former commander of the US Central ...

A reported $1.26 billion contract has been awarded by the Trump administration to build the largest immigration detention center on Fort Bliss land.

The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or the CREC, has a highly patriarchal and conservative interpretation of ...

The secretary is responsible for making sure those people are able to do their jobs – which, collectively, is to defend the United States, the American people and U.S. interests.