Ashton Carter

Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is out with a book on the inner workings of the Pentagon.

Carter served during the latter years of the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017 and helped lead the department strategy...

Chuck Hagel will begin his last trip to U.S. bases as defense secretary ahead of Senate confirmation hearings his replacement...

Ashton Carter agreed to hear arguments from JTACS for keeping the A-10 despite renewed efforts by the Air Force to retire it.

The Senate approved Ashton Carter Thursday as the next secretary of defense in a vote that saw only five nays.

New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday that President Obama needs policy guidance from a military perspective.

The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a fiscal 2016 budget that includes almost $100 billion in war funding for...

Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus disagreed with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's charge that the Iraqis lacked the will to...

The Defense Department awarded a contract for wearable electronic devices as part of a push to work more closely with Silicon...