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Democrats are vowing to resist GOP attempts to halt Defense Department training aimed at countering extremist groups.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee has called on the Defense Department to halt its programs to prevent and root out extremism in the ranks.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has called on the Defense Department to halt programs to prevent and root out extremism in the ranks.

Defense Department appropriations legislation for the current fiscal year funded more than $58 billion worth of military projects that the administration did not request, according to a first-of-its-kind Pentagon report.

Additions made by Congress to the Defense Department's budget included money for disaster response, the war in Ukraine, ships and more.

WASHINGTON — The House takes up its annual National Defense Authorization Act this week, and the most consequential amendments may or may not be the ones that generate the most rhetorical heat.

The most consequential amendments on the defense policy bill may or may not be the ones that draw the most rhetorical heat.

A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven US Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night. The modified jumbo jet took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in the Mojave Desert and released the rocket over…

The phrase "nuclear energy" conjures images of large steaming towers or Tony Stark's arc reactor from the iconic "Iron Man" movies. But two Seattle-based startups are designing nuclear technologies small enough to pick up and carry that, thanks in part to buy-in from the Defense Department, they hope will fuel…

The Senate Armed Services Committee has proposed a roughly 10 percent increase in national security funding for fiscal 2023.

The EPA released health warnings for drinking water with trace amounts of so-called forever chemicals.