The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds will take to the skies this week to thank frontline workers battling the pandemic in New York and New Jersey.
Pentagon leaders on Wednesday at a briefing laid out plans for testing troops for the coronavirus while remaining operational.
Defense officials said they are seeing a “surge” in spear phishing related to the coronavirus pandemic, as more people telework from home.
Pentagon officials are pushing back against criticism — mostly from Democrat lawmakers — that the department has not acted fast or done enough to protect troops from coronavirus despite relatively low hospitalizations.
The DOD has not received requests for facilities, equipment, and personnel, but is looking at options to help deal with coronavirus.
The DOD has halted all domestic travel for troops, civilians, and their families assigned to bases and other facilities within the U.S.
Esper announced travel restrictions for troops, civilians, and families traveling to and from Level 3 countries due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday approval to sell new KC-46 Pegasus aerial refuelling aircraft to its staunch Middle East ally Israel.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is sending letters to service members notifying them that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers who breached a computer network managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
China’s Communist Party uses “corporate America [and] Wall Street” as proxies in its war against America, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding
The Pentagon has identified 11 military bases as potential quarantine centers for Americans suffering from the coronavirus, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Tuesday.
Esper sent a memo to the Pentagon urging them to remain “apolitical” and avoid any actions that could imply political endorsement.
During Tuesday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for cuts in the Department of Defense’s budget and argued that the U.S. needs to “think about our defense in very different ways” and “depend
Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Tuesday evening that he has approved the deployment of 750 U.S. soldiers to the Middle East following an attack by pro-Iran forces on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
President Donald Trump signed into a law a defense bill on Friday that ushered in significant reforms for military families.
In a recent podcast interview, Buttigieg said that he would not set a timeline for withdrawal, insisting that it was not responsible.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos criticized employee activists recently, stating that Silicon Valley tech firms should be free to do business with the U.S. Military. According to Bezos, it is up to senior management to tell employees “no” when they become activists against their own employers and their government contracts. Bezos added, “My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on the Department of Defense, this country is in trouble. That just can’t happen.”
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that the Trump administration has been “very aggressive” with Russia, contrary to critics’ assertion.
Esper said Monday he fired Spencer because Spencer had gone behind his back on handling the case of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.
Pentagon chief Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark E. Milley will brief reporters at 12 p.m. ET.
House Democrats on Monday subpoenaed the Pentagon and Office of Management and Budget for Ukraine-related documents.
The Pentagon said a temporary delay in $250 million of military aid to Ukraine did not negatively affect U.S. national security.
Marc Short sent Elijah Cummings (D-MD) a letter rebuking claims that the vice president’s trip served to benefit President Donald Trump or the Trump Organization.
The Trump administration is putting up about a mile of border wall per day with a goal of reaching 450 miles by the end of next year.
China will dominate the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure in the absence of U.S. industrial policy to help finance construction of a nationwide 5G network, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.
The Financial Times on Wednesday reported that the Pentagon is compiling a list of companies with links to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) or Chinese intelligence services in order to protect U.S. military secrets and secure America’s supply of military equipment.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg released his plan to combat climate change on Wednesday, warning of the changes needed at the Department of Defense to combat what he described as a national security threat.
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defended his decision to remain silent about any criticism of President Donald Trump, citing an American tradition and a duty to keep his own counsel on matters of politics.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford will brief the media at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper will soon receive a series of briefings on a Pentagon program that could thrust him into deciding whether or not Amazon snags a potentially $10 billion defense contract to create a giant data cloud for the Department of Defense.
Calls for the firing of Department of Defense spokeswoman Elissa Smith, a career official, have ramped up after it was revealed last week that she boosted and shared criticisms of President Donald Trump through her personal Twitter account.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) assailed President Donald Trump as “a pathological liar” when discussing foreign policy at the second Democrat debate on Tuesday.
Department of Defense spokeswoman Elissa Smith, a career official, is facing scrutiny after it was revealed that several of her tweets and retweets suggest a political bias that does not support President Donald Trump’s agenda.
The official investigation report showed that an Army crime lab did not identify Hyten’s semen or DNA on the pants she was wearing.
President Donald Trump spoke at the Pentagon on Thursday to welcome new Defense Secretary Mark Esper during a full honors welcome ceremony.
WASHINGTON, DC, the Capitol Building — Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Congress needs to scrutinize “egregious” federal contractor “bogus bonuses.”
Army Secretary Mark Esper may have been an unexpected choice for defense secretary, but his nomination on Friday is not surprising to those close to the White House.
President Trump announced Tuesday in a tweet that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will no longer seek the nomination to become permanent defense secretary.
Amazon may have influenced the federal government’s decision making process on a $10 billion defense contract it was bidding by secretly offering one of the Pentagon officials involved in the deal a job.
WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), during a House panel hearing on Thursday, complained that U.S. President Donald Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.
