The U.S. Army aims to acquire and create new vertical lift aircraft variants for operations in the 2030s and beyond, Defense News reported Tuesday. Future vertical lift was listed third among top
The Office of Personnel Management will extend a pay freeze for top government officials that include high-level political appointees through the Jan. 19 government shutdown deadline, Government Executive reported Thursday. Congress passed a
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The State Department aims to select a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism as part of the 2004 Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, Government Executive reported Wednesday. The incumbent will collaborate with
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Holly Greaves, senior adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency administrator for budget and audit, will be nominated by President Donald Trump as the next EPA chief financial officer. The White House said
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has said he expects the Defense Department‘s general purpose forces to perform missions currently designated to special operations teams such as support activities in Iraq and Syria, DoD
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has said the Defense Department will modify how it conducts operations to defeat the Islamic State militant group in 2018, DoD News reported Friday. Mattis told reporters Friday
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Brig. Gen. R. Scott Dingle, deputy chief of staff for staff operations at the U.S. Army Medical Command, has been named commanding general of the military branch’s Regional Health Command-Atlantic, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump plans to nominate Brett Giroir, president and CEO of biopharmaceutical company ViraCyte, as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services. The White House said Friday that Giroir
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Andrea Thompson, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former national security adviser to the House Homeland Security Committee, will assume the roles of deputy assistant to the president and national security adviser
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Maj. Gen. Scottie Carpenter, commander of the U.S. Army Reserve‘s 84th Training Command, has been appointed as deputy commanding general of the Army Reserve Command and the Army Reserve unit within the
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Steven Walker, formerly deputy director and acting director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been appointed to lead DARPA on a full-time basis. He succeeds Arati Prabhakar, who left DARPA in
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