The Pentagon had ceased, one source says, to be “creative”; it was a mechanism for implementing executive orders. Each new leak contributed to Hegseth’s sense that he was surrounded by moles ...

The Pentagon is no longer requiring civilian employees to send emails listing out five things they accomplished each week, winding down an initiative driven partly by Elon Musk's Department of ...

Former chief Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot, who was once a strong backer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is now warning that the “total chaos” of the last month at the Defense Department ...

The Pentagon said it would investigate what it claims are leaks of national security information, saying that the probes could include polygraph tests for employees in the Defense Department ...

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson’s posts — which include comparing the murders of Israeli babies during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to abortion and spreading the far-right ‘great ...

Pentagon speaking requests also now have to be approved by the building’s general counsel, the policy team, and Hegseth’s press shop. Previously, only the individual command needed to approve ...

The Pentagon will soon allow local commanders to buy drones and authorize troops to fly them in training exercises, skipping steps that previously required higher-level approval. Patty Nieberg ...

Pentagon says U.S. doesn't want to pursue war with Iran after bombing 3 of its nuclear sites Caine said the goal of the operation — destroying nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan — had ...

The Pentagon’s budget process, known as Planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution (PPBE), has remained largely unchanged since it was established by Secretary Robert McNamara in the 1960s.

The Pentagon cannot reprogram more than $15 million without Congressional approval, which prevents it from shifting funds to purchase newly released platforms or to test and evaluate promising systems ...

The Pentagon announced it will cut its budget by some $50 billion each year for the next five years. But questions remain about where those tens of billions of dollars in savings will come from.

Plans to build the long-planned 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Visitor Education Center in Arlington National Cemetery could be gaining momentum. There will be an in-person and virtual meeting next ...