Pentagon

The Pentagon is sinking $75 million over the next five years into the development of flexible hybrid electronics that could yield increasingly advanced wearable devices, improved health monitoring systems or […]

Oshkosh [OSK] has been awarded a $6.7 billion contract to build the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), which replaces large portions of the Army and Marine Corps Humvee fleets. Oshkosh’s […]

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Friday will make his return to Silicon Valley, where he will announce the Defense Department’s involvement in a new economic initiative, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter […]

Air Force Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel was recently appointed Vice Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Defense Department said this month. “In this role, she helps to […]

The Defense Department is eyeing detention facilities in the continental United States for a suitable site to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday. […]

The United States is beefing up its posture in the Asia-Pacific region and will be moving some of its newest capabilities—such as the F-35, destroyers and a freshly-built amphibious ship—to […]

The Pentagon’s independent testing office wants to pit the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter and the A-10 Warthog against each other for comparative tests that will gauge the new jet’s ability […]

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Aug. 20 that all ground combat jobs will be open to women unless service chiefs can deliver convincing reasons, backed by data, that certain […]

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday gave a word of advice to lawmakers who might try to reduce the U.S. deficit through deep cuts to the defense budget: […]

General Dynamics [GD] was awarded a contract worth potentially $881 million by the Air Force Material Command to provide enterprise IT services to global U.S. combatant commands, the company said […]