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Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to the media with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Khalid Al Attiyah at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) **FILE**

Pentagon: Mark Esper not lobbying Donald Trump on court-martial cases

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Pentagon awaits possible Amazon challenge over cloud deal

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

In this Oct. 29, 2019, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, walks to the podium with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A bitter fight over funding for border fencing is imperiling Capitol Hill efforts to forge progress on more than $1.4 trillion worth of overdue spending bills. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Border wall, impeachment battle imperil budget progress

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. NATO defense ministers on Friday discussed efforts to deter Russia in eastern Europe and the future of the mission training security forces in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) **FILE**

Senate Democrats press Pentagon over role in Ukraine aid delay

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 909 Air Fueling Squadron of the 18th Wing of the U.S. Air Force, based in Japan's Kadena, conducts aerial refueling to a F-16 Fighting Falcon from the U.S. Seventh Air Force's 8th Fighter Wing, based in South Korea's Gunsan, during a joint military drills between South Korea and the U.S. over the East Sea, east of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee Jae-won, Pool)

Air Force Digital Century Series to develop fighter jets every five years

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this July 23, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with Lockheed Martin president and CEO Marilyn Hewson and director and chief test pilot Alan Norman in front of a F-35 as he participates in a "Made in America Product Showcase" at the White House in Washington. On Oct. 28, 2019, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin on completed a $34 billion deal that will result in the delivery of 478 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Pentagon clinches massive $34 billion Lockheed deal for new F-35 fighter jets

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the White House via the Twitter account of President Donald Trump after it was declassified by Trump, a photo of the military working dog that was injured tracking down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a tunnel beneath his compound in Syria. Joint chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told reporters Monday that the animal "performed a tremendous service" and said the dog was "slightly wounded" but is now recovering and has returned to duty at an undisclosed location. The dog's name remains classified. (White House via AP)

Military dog injured during Baghdadi raid is ‘fully recovering’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen before the sun rises in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Andrew R. Arthur, Center for Immigration Studies fellow, alarmed by provision in defense policy bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers leaker, says Trump put a ‘bullseye’ on Ukraine whistleblower’s back

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

F/A-18 fighter jets fly over the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, Monday, June 3, 2019. The U.S. aircraft carrier the White House ordered to the Mideast over a perceived threat from Iran remains outside of the Persian Gulf amid efforts to de-escalate tensions between Tehran and Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Microsoft tops Amazon, wins Pentagon’s $10 billion ‘JEDI war cloud’ contract

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Soldiers with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, fire 155 mm rounds using an M777 Howitzer weapons system, on Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, 2009. The Army is now looking for a canon with much longer range — 1,000 miles. (U.S. Army)

U.S. Army counters China threat with Strategic Long-Range Cannon

By Lauren Toms, Ben Wolfgang and Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Once a budget line, Ukraine aid now roils Trump’s presidency

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to reporters at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, where he saw a Patriot missile battery that the US sent to Saudi to help protect the kingdom against the Iranian threat. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Mark Esper, Pentagon chief, recuses himself from $10 billion JEDI contract process

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

After courts martial dropped, cadets fight expulsions

By TOM ROEDER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump used anti-Taliban funds to build border wall: Democrats

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump bows his head down as they say their prayer at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia deployment undercuts bid to end ‘forever wars’

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks to reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) **FILE**

US pulling out of northern Syria; full withdrawal possible

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, joined by from left, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, speaks to media during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Esper: US is not abandoning Kurds in face of Turkish attack

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, file photo, made from a video broadcast on the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite news channel, smoke from a fire at the Abqaiq oil processing facility fills the skyline, in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia took journalists on Friday to the site of a missile-and-drone strike on the kingdom’s oil industry that shook global energy markets over the weekend. (Al-Arabiya via AP, File)

U.S. deploying 3,000 troops, advanced equipment to Saudi Arabia

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump broke law with border wall emergency, judge rules

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times