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Boosting the military’s size and budget was a structural element of President Donald Trump’s campaign platform, but there is little agreement on how to pay for the unspecified increases now […]

Donald Trump was inducted as the 45th United States president on Friday and the Senate voted to confirm both retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as defense secretary and retired […]

A United States senator from New Mexico is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to keep current National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Defense Department leadership in their positions until replacements […]

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein on Jan. 18 welcomed a recent proposal by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for the service to buy hundreds of low-cost, light-attack fighters […]

Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) will serve as chairman and ranking member, respectively, on the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) new cybersecurity subcommittee. SASC Chairman John McCain […]

Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) is proposing adding $430 billion in defense spending over the next five fiscal years to address what he calls a damaged […]

House committee chairman that have oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have agreed to regularly authorize the department, which hasn’t been the subject of a comprehensive policy bill […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee backed the F-35 during his Senate nomination hearing Thursday, but was noncommittal toward the Air Force’s next-generation nuclear cruise missile, one of the service’s […]

Outgoing Navy Secretary Ray Mabus believes the industrial base can support a force structure of 355 ships due to hot production lines and investments in shipyards. The 2016 Navy Force […]

FBI Director James Comey told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the Russian government did attempt to hack computer networks of Republican organizations but that the evidence shows that Russia […]