Project Maven

Donald Trump’s gutting of the federal government is coming to the Department of Defense. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has told DOD and military leaders to make plans for cutting 8 percent of the defense budget for each of the next five years, The Washington Post reports , citing a…

The southwest division of DOD's NAVFAC agency expects to award task orders totaling up to $3 billion to selected contractors for various projects, mostly in California. Photo courtesy NAVFAC Southwest Speaking at a press conference in Stuttgart, Germany, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Feb. 11 instructed Dept. of Defense…

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February 7, 2025 @ 9:24 PM The Washington Post and CNN have spent the last few months making very public, very ostentatious displays of fealty to Donald Trump, but nevertheless they’ve been added to the ranks of unfriendly media that are being kicked out of the Pentagon to make way…

Published February 7, 2025 7:10am Updated February 7, 2025 11:53am The aircraft that crashed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur was contracted by the US Department of Defense and providing intelligence and surveillance support. "On February 6, 2025, an aircraft contracted by the U.S. Department of Defense crashed in the Philippine…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More than two years after ProPublica sued the Navy over its failure to provide public access to military courts, the Department of Defense has for the first time…

President Donald Trump is expected to sign multiple military-centered executive orders on Monday, including one that directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to update “trans-identifying medical standards” to ensure “military readiness,” and another that abolishes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the Department of Defense (DOD). The New York Post first reported on the…

Former Department of Defense Inspector General Robert Storch, whose office was behind the report on the department’s response to assistance requests before and on January 6, 2021, was one of the 17 inspectors general Trump fired on Friday. Trump also fired a longtime inspector general who was first appointed under…

Upcoming Executive Orders: What to Expect from President Trump On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump is anticipated to sign several executive orders addressing key policy areas Immigration and Border Security: National Emergency at the Border: Declare a national emergency at the southern border, directing the Department of Defense to…

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as weapons, but AI is giving the Department of Defense a…