Department of Defense

Civilian employers remain generally supportive of their employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserves, but some challenges persist, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation last year.

After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees have released their conference committee fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.

The U.S. military's F-35 Lightning II fighters have failed to meet their readiness goals for six consecutive years, according to a recent report from a congressional watchdog.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Aug. 1 the launch of its redesigned Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.

America is closer to fighting a major war with a near-peer adversary than at any time in the last 80 years, and the nation — including the U.S. military — is not prepared.

Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson — the chief of the National Guard Bureau — says a Guard program that strengthens America’s ties with its allies can grow.

President Joe Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Jonathan M. Stubbs, the adjutant general of Arkansas, to be the next director of the Army National Guard, the Pentagon announced July 10.

The Army’s two new directives regarding the handling and reporting of "protest, extremist and criminal gang activities" by soldiers and their commanders applies to National Guardsmen.

Three senators are impatient with the Pentagon for being 20 months late in providing Congress with a required implementation plan to give National Guardsmen and Reservists the same special and incentive pay as their active-duty counterparts.

A National Guardsman who died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been identified and will return home, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

President Joe Biden signed into law six fiscal 2024 spending bills, including one containing $824.5 billion for the Defense Department.

Congress approved another short-term spending bill last week, the fourth this fiscal year, averting a partial shutdown of the federal government but...