Pentagon

The political battle over whether humans are causing climate change – and whether the climate is changing at all – is far from settled, but the Defense Department is already […]

Army Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn took command of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on July 23 during a ceremony at the Fort Meade headquarters. Lynn succeeds retiring Director Air […]

One of the Pentagon’s top acquisition officials fired shots against the Senate’s acquisition reform legislation today, saying that a provision in the bill limits the information that can be passed […]

The House and Senate will likely put forward the defense authorization bill conference report by the end of the week, allowing both chambers to take up the legislation before going on recess […]

The organization established to find ways of spotting and disposing of roadside bombs and other improvised explosives has been downsized and renamed, a restructuring that was done in parallel with […]

Obama’s next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff breezed through a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing today, with senators on both side of the aisle commending his service […]

A key lawmaker believes the Defense Department can reduce its current 15-to-20 year procurement process to three-to-five years by the time the current House Armed Services Committee (HASC) chairman leaves […]

As airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIL) intensify, President Barack Obama reiterated his strategy to combat the brutal extremist group by training local forces to fight […]

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Monday announced the shuffling of several senior civilian Pentagon officials ahead of Army Secretary John McHugh leaving office before November.  Eric Fanning, who has […]

Vencore, Inc. was awarded an $11.8 million contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) through its applied research organization, Vencore Labs, to bolster the resiliency and reliability […]