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For the first time in a decade, the Defense Department is beginning a fiscal year with its full funding in place. President Donald Trump on Friday...

Initial Air Force plans for a separate Space Force include no role for the National Guard. In a Sept. 14 memo outlining its recommendations for the...

Washington decision-makers are a step closer to providing the U.S. military with its first on-time budget in a decade. The Senate today approved a...

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says the Air Force is too small for a possible future conflict with a major power, such as China or Russia. On...

Lawmakers from both chambers and both sides of the aisle have asked the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs to do research on marijuana’s...

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said the acrimony and infighting among the political parties is being watched closely by those...

A bipartisan quartet of senators has cautioned government agencies to avoid waste and abuse when quickly spending remaining budgets as the end of the...

Congress has an early start in completing a budget process before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. The Senate passed a defense budget for fiscal 2019 of...

The Air Force does not have enough aircraft for future operations, whether they take on long or short Cold War-like regional conflicts with Russia or...

Republican lawmakers say they will not investigate any possible influence by three of President Donald Trump’s friends on policy and personnel...

President Donald Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act Monday in New York. The bill offers the policies under which the...

Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said he supports creation of a U.S. Space Force as a sixth military service despite earlier comments that seemed to...