NEWS & EVENTS

Senate Confirms Milley as Joint Chiefs Chairman The Senate on July 25 confirmed Army Gen. Mark Milley to be the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a bipartisan, nearly unanimous vote of 89-1. Milley will take over for retiring Marine Corps Gen. Joseph...

Senate Confirms Esper as Defense Secretary The Senate on July 23 confirmed Mark Esper to be the next secretary of defense, by a vote of 90-8. Esper could be sworn in as the Pentagon’s new leader as early as this evening. He largely sailed through the Senate...

SASC Sends Esper, Milley Nominations to Senate Floor The Senate Armed Services Committee on July 18 approved the nominations of Army Secretary Mark Esper to be the new defense secretary and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...

ANG Suicide Analysis Board Urges Increased Gun Safety The Air National Guard wants to rely more heavily on chaplains to help combat suicides, following a recent analysis that discovered easy access to guns and a lack of preventative information contributed to most ANG...

Esper Formally Nominated for Defense Secretary The White House on July 15 formally nominated Army Secretary Mark Esper to be the Trump administration’s second Senate-confirmed defense secretary. The nomination, which was sent to the Senate around 3 p.m., came about 18...

Esper Heads to NATO During First Week on the Job as Top Pentagon Official Mark Esper will spend his first week as acting Secretary of Defense in Belgium. Late on the evening of June 19, the Pentagon announced that Esper, who has been tapped to replace Patrick Shanahan...

Future of Army Aviation Funding Remains Murky The Army has ambitious plans to acquire next-generation aircraft as it gears up for great power competition. But uncertainty about future vertical lift programs and other modernization efforts leaves an unclear picture of...

The United States obligated more than $1.5 trillion on "war-related" costs since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a recent Defense Department report. Most of those funds have been dedicated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the figure also includes support to the...

  The week of April 22 was certainly a busy one for Lockheed Martin in South Carolina, beginning with the F-16 Production Line Ribbon Cutting event in Greenville on April 23. The next day, members of our Government Affairs team visited Columbia to be presented...

Defense Department officials are laying the groundwork for a Space National Guard even though the Pentagon’s Space Force proposal did not include provisions for a reserve component, the head of the Air National Guard said May 21. DOD stood up an internal group under...