Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / ) Pete Hegseth, the defense ...

Pentagon removes barriers for military drone deployment, redefining small unmanned aircraft as consumables while mandating drone combat simulations across military branches ...

Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief moderated his stance to get the job but is now pushing for change in the name of high standards ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday alluded to ongoing controversies that have rocked his brief tenure at the Pentagon during a speech to the Army War College. “When President Trump ...

When President Donald Trump searched for his top Cabinet secretaries, a flair for running a smooth governing machine was ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced sweeping changes to the way the Pentagon buys and fields uncrewed air systems, or UAS, with a goal of establishing “UAS domain dominance ...

The North Carolina senator, who recently said he did not plan to run for re-election, said the defense secretary’s decisions ...

Another big challenge for Mr. Hegseth will be learning how to run the Defense Department, ... Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Chaos Builds at Pentagon Under Hegseth’s Control.

Things were going fine for Pete Hegseth, right up until a chance encounter with the world’s richest man. His pursuit of Donald Trump’s agenda at the Pentagon had made him a star among the ...

Hegseth has long voiced disdain for high-ranking officers, and swiftly fired Joint Chiefs Chair C.Q. Brown and the Navy’s top admiral once taking office.. The Pentagon has yet to detail specific ...

In the document, released publicly today, Hegseth said the move to restructure the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, or ODOT&E, supports the Pentagon’s “America First ...