The Latest Breaking News from the Defense Department

The dispute between Colorado and Alabama over where to put U.S. Space Command's headquarters has ensnared DOD reprogramming requests.

A U.S. drone strike killed an Islamic State group leader in Syria hours after the same MQ-9 Reaper drones were harassed by Russian military jets over the western part of the country, according to the Defense Department.

The debt limit deal would cap defense spending despite defense hawks in Congress calling for big increases to the Pentagon's budget.

WASHINGTON -- Congress directed the Pentagon to spend $12.2 billion in the current fiscal year on nearly 1,000 different “program increases” in the Defense spending bill’s research account alone, projects pushed by lawmakers that the Defense Department did not publicly request, according to a previously unpublicized database.

Member-driven increases to research projects within the Pentagon's budget have surged, with little scrutiny.

Defence chief grilled on not cooperating with International Criminal Court prosecution, cites wariness of ‘reciprocity’.

Lawmakers accused the Pentagon on Thursday of effectively undermining war crimes prosecution of Russia by blocking the sharing of U.S. military intelligence with the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

The Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration have been tracking a balloon that was flying off the coast of Hawaii last week

The Pentagon is sounding alarms over Biden administration plans to advance offshore wind projects along the central Atlantic U.S. coast, warning that almost all of the new terrain eyed for development conflicts with military operations.