A reported $1.26 billion contract has been awarded by the Trump administration to build the largest immigration detention ...

With limited manufacturing capacity and few training scenarios, the United States is lagging behind its adversaries in drone technology.

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 US, under both Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden, has been ramping up its efforts to contain China. In 2023, it used the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement to gain access to four more ...

The United States and Panama have launched PANAMAX-Alpha Phase I, a week-long joint military training operation focused on ...

Today, I ask Lloyd Austin to once more take on a mission for the United States of America—this time as the secretary-designate of the Department of Defense. I know he will do an outstanding job.

Columnist Issac J. Bailey examines Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s potential renaming of Navy ships in the context of other actions Hegseth has taken and doesn’t like what he sees.

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 ...

He served as secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015. Before that, he served a dozen years in the U.S. Senate as a Republican senator from Nebraska. Secretary Hagel, great to speak with you again.