Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has issued a memorandum directing the secretary of the Army to establish the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or
The Senate Armed Services Committee has released its version of the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which supports a total of $924.7 billion in national defense funding. The committee said
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The Senate on Wednesday voted 49-46 to confirm Scott Kupor, managing partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, to be the next director of the Office of Personnel Management. Federal News Network
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Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has released a memorandum outlining DOD’s approach to driving U.S. military drone dominance. In early June, President Donald Trump
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Reuters reported Wednesday that President Donald Trump appointed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator. “Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country’s Transportation Affairs … He will be
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Breaking Defense reported Tuesday that the U.S. Air Force’s Unfunded Priorities List, or UPL, is seeking $10 billion in additional fiscal year 2026 funding, while the U.S. Space Force is requesting $6 billion
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The Space Development Agency has appointed Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo, a U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, as deputy director. SDA said Tuesday Sandhoo succeeds Ryan Frigm, who helped establish SDA as
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Breaking Defense reported Tuesday that the U.S. Navy’s fiscal year 2026 Unfunded Priorities List, or UPL, includes a $1.4 billion funding request for a sixth-generation fighter aircraft program called F/A-XX. “This additional
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The U.S. Army has unveiled a new strategy and implemented a refined modernization approach to address the need for enhanced electromagnetic warfare, or EW, capabilities. The Army’s Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic
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Federal News Network reported Monday that the 24 largest federal departments and agencies that inventoried more than 7,200 websites as part of a General Services Administration analysis now plan to decommission 332
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President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a massive budget reconciliation bill that includes $150 billion in additional funding for the Department of Defense and trillions of dollars in tax and
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