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On Friday the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that the remains of U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Wylie W. Leverett, 28, of Wortham, Texas, have been positively identified and his family has been notified of that fact.
The Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth has been fixated on buzzwords like “warfighting” and “warfighters,” and adopting new AI tools is part of that mission, according to leaders at the agency. And Monday’s press release was filled to the brim with similarly grandiose language.
The United States' need to secure a domestic supply of rare earth materials is a major driver for MP Materials stock. The recent Department of Defense partnership is great news for the company. Shares of rare earth materials and magnets company MP Materials (NYSE: MP) rose by 113.
The latest version of the defense department budget has hundreds of millions of dollars for local projects, a nearly 4% raise for personnel and more than $8 billion for U.S. shipbuilding for fiscal year 2026.
The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty said
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The National Interest on MSNThe United States Is Running Dangerously Low on Patriot MissilesThe US Department of Defense (DoD) currently has only 25 percent of the interceptors needed for all its military plans, with conflicts in the Middle East contributing to the shortage.
The Philippine Defense Department says Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. renounced his Maltese citizenship and disclosed it to Filipino authorities before taking office.
At a May 7 ceremony at the Pentagon, the Defense Department presented Jacqueline Fox, Plans and Operations Specialist, Department of the Army, G-1,
The Department of Defense paid Harvard scientists to continue work on their research project, even after the Trump administration said they canceled the grant funding the study, the University claimed in a Friday filing for its lawsuit over the administration’s funding freezes.
Defense Secretary Hegseth announces major policy changes to accelerate Department of Defense drone procurement.