Department of Defense

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday changing the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War as a “secondary” title.

Gen. Steven S. Nordhaus, chief of the National Guard Bureau, attended the 2025 Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defense Conference on Aug. 27-28 in Hua Him, Thailand to strengthen the National Guard’s partnerships in the region.

Senate lawmakers hit the ground running Tuesday by voting to proceed to debate on the annual defense policy bill.

Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, praised the National Guard during his address at the 147th General Conference & Exhibition in Milwaukee on Saturday.

The Space Force will take over all space missions currently performed by nine Air National Guard units Oct. 1, according to a July 30 memo signed by Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink.

The remains of a recently identified 29th Infantry Division Soldier last seen alive on D-Day will be interred Friday at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Both the House and Senate Armed Services committees include a 3.8% base pay increase for service members in their respective versions of the annual defense policy bill.

Thanks to a NGAUS push, tens of thousands of Army National Guard Soldiers mobilized under authority 12304b will receive full credit toward early retirement retroactively to 2012.

Lawmakers praised the successes of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program (SPP) as a means of strengthening national and international security.

Members of the Missouri Air National Guard’s 131st Bomb Wing were in the sky operating alongside Air Force Global Strike Command during Operation Midnight Hammer.

President Donald Trump has nominated Lt. Gen. Thomas Carden, the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, for the No. 2 position at the National Guard Bureau.

Seven more Army bases will revert to their long-standing names, President Donald Trump said June 10 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but not to honor their original namesakes.