Former SecDef Weighs in on Syria, Turkey and Mattis' Departure Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is out with a book on the inner workings of the Pentagon.
Ash Carter, Former Defense Secretary Who Allowed Women into Combat Roles, Dies Carter served during the latter years of the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017 and helped lead the department strategy...
EADS Steps Gingerly To KC-X Bid In a move that could make for one of the most exciting defense procurements in modern history, EADS formally confirmed this...
Pentagon: Acquisition Reform Key to Strategic Choices Review Kendall and Carter said DoD must improve weapons acquisition through cost-conscious strategies and more effective prototyping...
Carter: Pentagon's Acquisition System Still Not 'Responsive' Pentagon's No. 2 says the Defense Department's process for buying weapons is still not getting the job done.
Pentagon Won't Confirm Ashton Carter is Next Defense Secretary Rear Adm. Kirby says he won't play "parlor game" with press over the possible nomination of Ashton Carter
Hegseth Grilled About Women in Combat, Officer Purge in Confirmation Hearing Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon, dismissed allegations that he committed sexual...
Army Veteran Caught Faking Severe PTSD, Purple Heart Award to Steal $779,000, Feds Say Kevin Paul McMains, of Milton, Florida, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for theft of government money...
'Going the Wrong Way:' Booting Marines from Okinawa Could Embolden China, Commandant Says Gen. Eric Smith said the planned transfer of Okinawa-based Marines to Guam in the coming years will distance the force from a...
2 New Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers Will Be Named After Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush While the White House publicized the decision, the responsibility and authority to name ships lies squarely in the hands of...
Navy Leaders Say Faster Training Is Key Lesson Learned from Red Sea Conflict Navy officials began to open up about the lessons they are learning from the months of sustained combat in the Red Sea...
![Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, addresses an audience](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-10/ApNewsroom_People_Maddow_Harvard_31145.jpg?itok=X7ei3aJ6 "Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, addresses an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-05/mil%20gavel%201200.jpg?itok=ukjniDZU "Insert the "doink doink" from "Law & Order" here. (U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Joshua Magbanua)")
![F/A-18E Super Hornet prepares to launch](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-01/mil-FA18E-super-hornet-launches-uss-nimitz-1800.jpg?itok=6ZREM54u "An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to the "Gunslingers" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 105, prepares to launch off the flight deck during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Red Sea, April 20, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicholas Rodriguez)")