Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday. Photo by Al Drago/UPI March 3 (UPI) ...

Defense Department civilians deemed to be their agency’s best performers could reap a substantial cash bonus by the end of the month, depending on funding availability. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Civilian employees of the Defense Department are again being ordered to document their work – this time, with the backing of the Pentagon. The order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be sent ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a March 28 memo that initially laid out plans to minimize the department's civilian workforce. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) The Defense Department issued guidance ...

Efforts to slash the Pentagon’s civilian workforce by more than 60,000 people are not proceeding as planned, thanks in part to a March 14 court order that could force the rehiring of thousands of ...

About 8% of Defense Department civilian employees have not returned to full-time in-person work, according to a Thursday Government Accountability Office report that encouraged officials to improve ...

The Pentagon first asked its civilian workers to consider volunteering for assignments to the Homeland Security Department's immigration-enforcement operations last year. On Monday, Defense Secretary ...

Teaching positions at Department of Defense Education Activity schools and on-post day care workers are among more than a dozen classes of jobs that the Pentagon has exempted from a department-wide ...