When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. in early 2020 and overwhelmed the nation's supply of personal protective equipment, the Defense Department's Manufacturing Innovation Institutes leveraged their public-private partnerships to ...
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks discussed climate change and its impact on the Defense Department in a video message, saying DOD must take ambitious and immediate action to ensure readiness ...
US president Donald Trump told a female reporter to keep her voice down and to 'relax' when she asked about what his administration had done to prepare for ... source
History has seen women stepping up to serve in the military for centuries, and the COVID-19 pandemic has them taking the lead more than ever.
The theme of this ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ response to the congoing coronavirus pandemic will be a key focus of Congress this week, with multiple hearings on the topics before House and Senate ...
One year ago today, Veterans Affairs officials announced their first patient to contract COVID-19, a Northern California veteran tested positive after being admitted to the department’s Palo Alto medical center. ...
Ten rockets were launched at the U.S. and ally-occupied Al Asad military base in Iraq early this morning. One American contractor who was sheltering suffered a "cardiac episode," and later ...
House lawmakers expect to approve the latest coronavirus relief bill by the end of this week, with a goal of Congress finalizing the bill’s $1.9 trillion in spending — including ...
Robert G. Salesses, performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security; Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, vice director of operations for the Joint ...
DOD's China Task Force will examine all the DOD activities relating to what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III calls America's "pacing challenge" to ensure they are synchronized, ...