The Defense Department Inspector General's Office has opened an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the commercial messaging app Signal ahead of U.S. military airstrikes in ...

The Pentagon must default to rapid acquisition processes when buying software, from business systems to weapons components, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo. The move is a “big deal,” one ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo this week requiring defense acquisition offices to use the Software Acquisition Pathway and other authorities to buy software. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week issued a mandate to Defense Department acquisition offices requiring all new programs that rely on software to use existing tools aimed at delivering those ...