Defense

An overall view of the space station flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center. (Photo: NASA)

Space: The Final Frontier for Federal Service

Albert Gonzales has an office job, but it isn't much like the ones you're probably familiar with: Instead of a cubicle, Gonza...

A journalist raises his hand to ask a question during a news briefing by Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, left, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein, right, at the Pentagon on Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump's Next Defense Secretary Could Be a Woman

Multiple women are well positioned for the nomination.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) prepares to moor at its new homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. (U.S. Navy Photo)

China Lashes Out at 'US Tricks,' as Navy Ships Sail by Disputed Islands

Freedom of Navigation Operations come amid China-U.S. trade talks.

A view of a living area for Afghan army soldiers assigned to Forward Operating Base Altimur in 2011. Members of Regional Support Command-East, with the assistance of an Afghan contractor and FLUOR, completed the work on the Combined Action Tactical Operations Center there (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE)

Ex-Employees Sue Fluor and KBR in Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Claim

Six veterans iare suing two contracting companies, claiming they overcharged the government hundreds of millions of dollars.

Pentagon: Sequestration Cuts Reduce Nat'l Security

More than $1 trillion in sequestration defense cuts "would significantly increase risks both in the short- and long-term."

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria. Militant site via AP

Fall of Raqqa Key to Disrupting Terror Plots: US General

The U.S. needs to support an offensive to retake Raqqa to disrupt terror plots against the U.S. and Europe, a U.S. general sa...

In this frame from video provided by SpaceX an unmanned Falcon rocket launches from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX Launches Air Force's Super-Secret Minishuttle

SpaceX launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbi...

Mufid Elfgeeh is taken from his arraignment in federal court in Rochester, NY, Monday June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Shawn Dowd)

New York Man Accused of Trying to Recruit, Aid ISIS Militants

An upstate New York man has been indicted for allegedly trying to recruit fighters for the Islamic State, paying for their tr...

Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last July. (Getty Images/Joe Raedle)

Trump has Access to Nation's most Valuable Intelligence

Intelligence sources said they do not anticipate the briefings will begin until next week at the earliest.

Members of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center pose for a photo in front of a MiG-29 Fulcrum aircraft, after moving it out of storage in August 2008. The MiG is now a static display outside NASIC headquarters. (US Air Force photo/Joshua Strang)

Intelligence Agency at Ohio Base Keeps Tabs On Threats to US

The secretive agency assesses the ICBM threat capabilities of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea -- among others.

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Ray Weaver, of Lancaster, Pa., supports Rolling Thunder 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joshua L. DeMotts)

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