GAO found that the service hasn't established a process to accurately determine its personnel needs and doesn't have a workforce plan to guide future growth.Β
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
U.S. Army Cpt. Webb, from the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, reenlists on Fort Bragg, NC, April 4, 2025. Webb reenlisted for another terms in front of his family and fellow officers.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cole Paulson)
DISA says that the Enclave contract is "the only viable contracting alternative" given the compressed timeline for migrating combatant commands to DoDNet.
The CMMC review could lead to "everything from an overhaul, to small tweaks here and there,β DoD CIO Kirsten Davies said after the review team's first meeting.
The Pentagon is testing a digital funding system to replace PDF-based budget transfers, aiming to cut disbursement times from months to as little as two weeks.
International Team of Military Personnel Have Meeting in Top Secret Facility, Female Leader Holds Laptop Computer Talks with Male Specialist. People in Uniform on Strategic Army Meeting
FILE - Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Air Force employees are being locked out of their computers as cybersecurity quarantines tied to software updates disrupt work across bases and the Pentagon.
A military transport and surveillance vehicle is parked in a newly designated national defense area on June 11, 2025, along the southern U.S. border in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
DoD CIO Kirsten Davies is suspending plans to ramp up CMMC third-party assessments, as part of a review that casts doubt on the future of the current program.
Experts from the State Department, DIA and Leidos say agencies need to build connected intelligence capabilities and AI tools to augment the human analyst.
Space Systems Command plans to hire 100 civilians a month as it rebuilds after 2025 workforce cuts, with contracting and cybersecurity among its top priorities.
"It's impossible to assess any safeguards that may exist in your companyβs agreement with DoD without seeing the full contract," Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a βliar and a traitorβ over recordings that show the House Republican leader β despite his denials β placing responsibility on former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 insurrection and saying he should resign. McCarthy initially had denied a New York Times report last week that detailed his phone conversations with House Republican colleagues shortly after the riot that he thought Trump should resign. But in an audio first posted Thursday by The Times, McCarthy is heard making the comments he denied making. Asked Sunday, April 24, 2022 about her reaction, Warren calls that βoutrageous." (Tom Williams, Pool via AP)
FILE - New recruits participate in the Army's future soldier prep course that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards, at Fort Jackson, a U.S. Army Training Center, in Columbia, S.C., Sept. 25, 2024. (, File)
FILE - A mother holds her daughter's hand before her Moderna COVID-19 vaccination on June 21, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
The initiative, first teased in April, has garnered nationwide interest β DoD said it received more than 70,000 inquiries from prospective candidates.