Policy

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

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

Policy

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.

Threats

Lawmakers to DOGE: Use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer at the Pentagon

Cutting first and asking questions later could hurt national security, HASC members say.

Defense Systems

America’s ‘Iron Dome’ is going to need a lot more sensors: NORTHCOM

But a key part of the sensor integration could be done in less than a year with proper funding, the leader of U.S. Northern Command told lawmakers.

Policy

Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s intelligence chief

As Director of National Intelligence, Trump's controversial pick will oversee the nation’s 18 spy agencies.

Policy

‘Offensive bullshit’: Dem lawmakers slam Trump's ‘illegal’ USAID moves

Elon Musk's attempt to gut the congressionally established U.S. Agency for International Development is "unconstitutional," Democratic lawmakers said.

Policy

Gabbard and Patel hearings display diverging views of reality, history along partisan lines

Senators focused mostly on the nominees’ past statements, rather than how they may lead in their prospective positions.