Trump and Musk, tapped to run a new Department of Government Efficiency, have floated a variety of ideas to reform Pentagon purchasing, such as ditching the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in favor of drones.
The report said the top 70th percentile of enlisted troops with one year of service earn $1,000 a week, but the figure includes far more than base pay.
All of that could soon fall on the shoulders of Pete Hegseth. The 44-year-old combat veteran and former TV cable news host is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon.
US officials believe corruption issues could throw China off track of its modernization goals and plans for Taiwan in the coming years.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CEO of one of the world's biggest defense contractors, L3Harris Technologies, told President-elect Donald Trump's government efficiency panel in a letter on Wednesday that the Pentagon's huge contracting system is too slow and bureaucratic to meet threats posed by China and Iran and needs to be reformed.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for two weeks at the start of 2024 for complications arising from surgery to treat prostate cancer.
A video shared on Instagram claims the Pentagon gave money to YouTube star Jimmy MrBeast Donaldson in an effort to persuade children to want to enlist in the army. Verdict: False Although the Pentagon and MrBeast were going to work on content together,
Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.
After years of failure, Pete Hegseth is the new secretary of defense that the Pentagon needs to clean up its act and ensure the U.S. military is a deadly force.
An investigation released on Wednesday into U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret 2024 hospitalization found his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside the government, and that he took medication that could have affected his cognitive functions while still in sole command.
Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to lead DoD, said troops will get back what "they lost because they were forced out due to an experimental vaccine."