A current adviser to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth alerted senior officials in the Trump administration of the use of ...

Senate confirms Gen. Mike Guetlein as director of the Office of Golden Dome, enhancing U.S. missile defense against advanced ...

President Donald Trump referred to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War on a TruthSocial post Friday. “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was great on FoxNews this morning. Talking about ...

Official websites use .mil A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States ...

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 ...

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

The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or the CREC, has a highly patriarchal and conservative interpretation of ...

The secretary is responsible for making sure those people are able to do their jobs – which, collectively, is to defend the United States, the American people and U.S. interests.

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 ...