The Latest Breaking News from Defense Department

Obesity in the U.S. military surged during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Defense Department says it backs ending “unfunded priorities lists” — annual requests for spending above the president's budget requests.

An anonymous survey conducted by the Defense Department showed that despite prevention efforts, cases of sexual assault and harassment are growing among men and women in military academies.

A 3M subsidiary claims that U.S. Defense Department records show that over 175,00 military members who allege the Maplewood-based company's earplugs were defective have normal hearing under key medical standards.

House and Senate defense and spending panels will hold the first open hearings on Ukraine aid oversight since the war’s start.

An independent panel says the Defense Department should implement a series of gun safety measures to reduce suicides in the force

Since February 2022, the United States has allocated $113.4 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine in wartime.

WASHINGTON —The federal workers union came out swinging Thursday against a Republican proposal to reduce the size of the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.

The federal workers union came out swinging Thursday against a Republican proposal to reduce the size of the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.

Fly-bys ‘revealed that the high-altitude balloon was capable of conducting signals intelligence collection operations,’ State Department says

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department and Microsoft Corp. are investigating an error that exposed at least a terabyte of military emails including personal information and conversations between officials, people familiar with the matter said, an episode that highlighted the security risk of moving sensitive Pentagon data to the cloud.