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The Defense Department is working toward successfully implementing its workforce acceleration and recapitalization initiative using voluntary reductions in force.
Defense Department leaders delivered a stark warning about adversaries exploiting cyberspace and threatening national security during a House Armed Services Committee cyber, information technologies and innovation subcommittee hearing in Washington.
The Defense Department's proposed military intelligence program budget for fiscal year 2026 aligns with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's strategic lines of effort both at home and abroad, according to a trio of senior intelligence officials.
DOD issued military leaders across the force guidance on how to proceed with separating, voluntarily or involuntarily, service members with a diagnosis or history of, or exhibiting symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria.
U.S. service members continue to support efforts carrying out President Donald J. Trump's executive orders on protecting the territorial integrity of the United States.
Navy Secretary John Phelan, Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James W. Kilby and Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric M. Smith briefed the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee on current challenges and their plans to address them in Washington.
Senior Defense Department officials met with the Senate Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee in Washington to discuss Golden Dome, a next-generation missile defense shield aimed at protecting the U.S. from evolving aerial threats.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, discussed ways the Army contributes to the joint force's overall mission throughout the region during the 2025 Land Forces Pacific Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu.
The Defense Department conducted a second successful flight of a fully recoverable uncrewed hypersonic test vehicle, marking another forward step in the nation's return to reusable hypersonic flight testing since the X-15 hypersonic research program ended in 1968.
The Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, alongside Djiboutian, French, Japanese and European Union naval forces, participated in Exercise Bull Shark in Djibouti, to strengthen communication and collaboration among international partners and allies.
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