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Service leaders beg for flexibility as full-year continuing resolution looms

Without a new budget—or relief from the strictures of its absence—the military can’t start new projects or pay for the unexpected.

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Confusion, fear as changes whipsaw Defense workforce

Workforce cuts, travel freezes, and administrative burdens are leaving civilians shaken.

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Trump administration reverses its cancellation of national-security office leases

GAO offices in Atlanta, Huntsville, and Norfolk have been removed from a termination list tied to a DOGE effort to reduce purported government waste.

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‘5 bullet points’ email now a weekly task for Pentagon civilians

A short explanation of recent achievements is due every Tuesday, SecDef says in additional guidance.

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Pentagon is placing probationary employees on leave in advance of mass firings

The terminations are expected within weeks under plans to fire nearly one-tenth of DOD’s 55,000 “probies.”

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Pentagon freezes government credit cards in DOGE cost-savings push

All non-essential official travel reservations for civilians must be canceled, per a March 5 memo.

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CIA is terminating some probationary employees

Recent U.S. intelligence has signaled that foreign adversaries are increasing efforts to recruit disgruntled federal employees in sensitive national security roles.

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Space Force hopes it gains from Hegseth’s budget shift

Vice chief says service is looking for things to cut—and has suggestions for things to buy.

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Weld, baby, weld: White House to create an ‘office of shipbuilding’

Trump wants America to bend steel and build like it used to.

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At least one Pentagon agency has begun firing probationary workers

The Defense Logistics Agency has begun dismissing its share of the Defense Department’s 5,400 targeted employees.

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Air Force, Space Force chiefs make forceful cases for ‘warrior ethos’

The intense speeches were delivered to a less-than-full ballroom due to Trump-administration travel restrictions.

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Hegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia

U.S. cyber warriors are essentially curbed from gathering information that can be used to influence, disrupt, or sabotage Russian decisionmaking.

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Comply with the next ‘what you did last week’ email, Hegseth tells Pentagon civilians

Defense Secretary’s memo aims to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s confusion and stress.

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Judge orders Trump admin to rescind order to fire probationary employees

The Defense Department had planned to begin firing some 5,400 workers on Friday, court filings said.

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SECNAV nominee: Trump wants ‘shipbuilding, shipbuilding, shipbuilding’

Investor John Phelan wants to apply his business experience to the ailing defense industrial base, as Pentagon looks at cutting civilian shipyard personnel.

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Pentagon’s 8-percent budget shift could be ‘painful’ for the Air Force

But there’s still “hope” because the overall topline won’t be cut, and the service will be “a big part” of the future fight, an official said.

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Give carmakers a shot at making weapons, deputy defense secretary nominee says

Stephen Feinberg’s testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee stressed the need for detailed program reviews, clean audits, and new blood in defense contracting.

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Army vet Driscoll confirmed as service secretary

Financier comes on board as military reels from firings of top officers, lawyers.