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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signs a memorandum aboard an E-4B Nightwatch aircraft while flying over the Pacific Ocean, March 28, 2025. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech)

DOD’s deferred resignation program to be offered April 7-14

Voluntary early retirement authority will also be offered.

By Jon Harper

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 01: Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, President Trump’s nominee to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on April 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Cybercom discovered Chinese malware in South American nations — Joint Chiefs chairman nominee

Cyber

By Mark Pomerleau

A view of the Pentagon on December 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump taps hypersonics expert to oversee Pentagon’s S&T portfolio

Emerging Tech

By Mikayla Easley

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Lt. Gen. Caine, Trump’s nominee for Joint Chiefs chairman, is gung-ho about commercial tech

By Jon Harper
Army wants ‘self-organized’ industry teams for Next-Gen C2 effort

By Mark Pomerleau
UAP disclosure advocates call for transparency on drone incursions

By Brandi Vincent
Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials

By Brandi Vincent
Trump’s Pentagon acquisition chief nominee vows to review controversial CMMC program

By Jon Harper

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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, appear during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Make Advana Great Again

Advana has become yet another exemplar of a DOD software development project that lost its way.

By Tara Murphy Dougherty

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) (C) talks with Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) during the confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

5 hot topics Dan ‘Razin’ Caine might address during his confirmation hearing Tuesday

President Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will face questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee this week.

By Jon Harper

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signs a memorandum aboard an E-4B Nightwatch aircraft while flying over the Pacific Ocean, March 28, 2025. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech)

DOD reopens deferred resignation program amid push to reduce civilian workforce

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a new memo about “Initiating the Workforce Acceleration and Recapitalization Initiative."

By Jon Harper

Troy Meink appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his nomination to be secretary of the Air Force in Washington, D.C., March 27, 2025. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

Trump’s Air Force secretary nominee pledges ‘holistic look’ at service modernization efforts

Troy Meink also told lawmakers that the Department of the Air Force must move faster on innovating new technologies.

By Mikayla Easley

Army updating brigades based on results from transforming-in-contact 1.0

By Mark Pomerleau

Space Force writing new framework to outline ‘space warfighting’ concepts, definitions

By Mikayla Easley

Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, set to testify at confirmation hearing

By Jon Harper

SOCOM awards Anduril $86M contract for autonomy software integration

By Jon Harper

DISA launching experimental cloud-based chatbot for Indo-Pacific Command

By Mikayla Easley

Insights

Report highlights how secure data-sharing platforms can support the Intelligence Community’s IT roadmap

By Scoop News Group

Transforming federal and defense network infrastructure with new wireless technologies

By Scoop News Group

How the DOD can harness AI for innovation and efficiency

By Scoop News Group

MPEs gain momentum for sharing information with allied partners

By Scoop News Group

Videos

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Unlocking the potential of AI with a modern data strategy

Splunk’s Paul Kurtz on the power of automation within DOD

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SMX’s Anthony Vultaggio on how the technology sector and U.S. military can work together

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DOD cyber leaders discuss post-quantum encryption

By DefenseScoop Staff

Supporting DOD mission success with robust and secure cloud

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The latest on the Pentagon’s major cloud acquisition, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability

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An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase)

Trump nominates former congressional staffer for top Pentagon cyber policy job

U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the U.S. Navy John Phelan arrives to a Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on February 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senate confirms Trump’s pick to lead Navy and Marine Corps

Allied fighter jets participating in NATO exercise Ramstein Flag 24 fly in formation over the west coast of Greece, Oct. 4, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Emili Koonce)

‘Better never stops’: Commanders preview NATO’s next large-scale, live-fly exercise

U.S. Army Sgt. Christian Claros, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, trains on identifying a target with a laser target locator during Project Convergence-Capstone 5 (PC-C5) on Fort Irwin, Calif, in March 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Karla N. Guerrero)

What will the Army’s Next-Gen C2 contract look like?

Aerial view of the Pentagon (Getty Images)

Internal email highlights how CDAO is responding to DOGE-inspired workforce reduction campaign

A rendering of a next-gen fighter. (Boeing photo)

Boeing wins contract for Air Force’s NGAD stealth fighter jet — now known as the F-47

Pentagon, Department of Defense, DOD — (Photo credit: DOD / Lisa Ferdinando)

Court filing offers insight into DOD’s probationary workforce kerfuffle after firings

An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 15, 2023. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright)

DOD lists more positions exempt from civilian hiring freeze

A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to 1st Armored Division inspects an antenna as he prepares for Project Convergence – Capstone 5 (PC-C5) at Fort Irwin, Calif., in early March2025. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kelvin Johnson)

How the Army built Next-Gen Command and Control

Venice Goodwine speaks at the 2020 Zero Trust Security Summit. (FedScoop)

Venice Goodwine exiting role as Air Force CIO

Katie Arrington conducts a speaking and Q&A session during Virtual Engagement for COMDEF 2020, September 29, 2020, in the Pentagon. (DoD photo by Marvin Lynchard)

Pentagon CIO calls for more offensive cyber capability

Members of the 18th Space Defense Combat Squadron, a unit assigned to U.S. Space Forces – Space under the USSF Force Generation model, observe orbital data at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Oct. 4, 2024. (Space Force photo by David Dozoretz)

New Space Force plan charts path for enhanced Unified Data Library

Marlan Macklin speaks on a panel at the Elatic Public Sector Summit. (Scoop News group photo)

DOD turns its focus to 6G with concept that could help sense drones

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