DoD

The House Armed Services Committee’s defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2017 would hold back 50 percent of funds allocated for the Patriot missile defense system until the U.S. Army comes...

Rear Adm. David Lane Rear Adm. David Lane, former U.S. Marine Corps medical officer and director of health services, has been appointed as the director for the Defense Health Agency's national capital...

Gen. David Goldfein Air Force Gen. David Goldfein, currently the service branch's vice chief of staff, has been nominated to succeed the retiring Gen. Mark Welsh as chief of staff...

James Clapper Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said the availability of commercial encryption software “had and is having major, profound effects on our ability” to gather intelligence on the Islamic...

The U.S. Army and members of a General Atomics team displayed prototypes of anti-drone weapons that look to meet what the service branch calls "unlimited-ammunition" goals at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment event. Two...

The Defense Information Systems Agency has rebranded its Continental U.S. Field Command organization to the name of "Global Operations Command" as DISA seeks to expand the organization's mission set. Global Operations Command will...

The U.S. government has deployed F-22 Raptor jets to Romania as part of training exercises in the region intended to help increase security for NATO allies and European partners, Air...

Government agencies continue to develop measures to prevent and detect insider threats in efforts to meet the standards of the National Insider Threat Task Force formed by President Barack Obama following the...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said the U.S. military should address the emergence of cyber, space and ballistic intercontinental missiles as factors that changed the "character" of war,...

The House Armed Services Committee could tackle the possibility of elevating the status of the U.S. Cyber Command to a unified combatant command level as part of the panel's markup of...