Defense News

Air Force leaders have been saying for the last several years that their service is too small to perform the missions the nation’s likely to ask of it.

A new report frets over the growing obesity epidemic and its impact on the military.

The Navy opens a new call center to help sailors worldwide with personnel issues.

A new drug developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, called Tafenoquine, has the potential to eradicate malaria. It recently received approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

The Army is in charge of about a million soldiers and those troops have concerns, ideas and comments for their leaders.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie appointed a new permanent director for the DC medical center.

Photos of the amazing, moving, important and amusing things happening in the defense community.

The National Guard chief says the Tyndall Air Force Base is 100 percent uninhabitable.

Much like every other agency in the federal government, the Navy is experimenting with how to implement the latest technological advancements to their mission.

In today’s Federal Newscast, base officials are the describing the damage at Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle as “catastrophic.”

Joint Task Force Civil Support is one of the smallest organizations in the military’s force structure, which may be its most important attribute.

The Defense Department is piloting new awards for basic research that pair universities with industry.

Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu spoke with Lt. Gen. Ed Daly, deputy commander of the materiel command, at this week’s Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington.

The Army is still figuring out how to deal with soldiers who are nondeployable for a year or more.