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An illustration depicts The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency vision for new XS-1 spacecraft. (Image: DARPA screen grab)

Pentagon gives Boeing $6.6M to build satellite-launching space drone

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Climate change a ‘growing threat’ to national security, Pentagon says

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of the G-7 summit at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Monday, June 8, 2015. The two-day summit addressed such issues as climate change, poverty and the fight against terrorism. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Climate change ‘urgent and growing threat’ to national security: Pentagon

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

About 1,000 Kurdish activists from Istanbul who arrived in response to a call for mass mobilization by the imprisoned leader of the PKK rebel group, Abdullah Ocalan, gather at the border near Suruc, Turkey, on Sept. 25, 2014. (Associated Press)

Obama denies gaining Turkey’s help in Islamic State fight means sacrificing Kurds

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Joshua B. Van Natter stands outside a military recruiting center on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, in Logan, Utah. Gun-toting citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers around the country, saying they plan to protect recruiters following last week's killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal via AP)

Arming U.S. military recruiters delayed by legal issues

By Anjali Shastry - The Washington Times

Head of al Qaeda suicide operations killed in U.S. airstrike

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter pauses as he speaks with media on a military aircraft after departing Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 22, 2015, en route Amman, Jordan. While in Jiddah Carter met with Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and other Saudi officials. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Ashton Carter arrives in Iraqi capital on unannounced visit

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Blue Ridge, the command ship of the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet, is docked for a port call at Manila's South Harbor in Manila, Philippines. (Associated Press)

Navy admirals lack strategy training and experience, scholars warn

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and sequestration on national security, Jan. 28, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Odierno says U.S military is spread thin: ‘We’re going to have to say what we’re not going to do’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A B-52H Stratofortress is marshalled to a stop on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., July 2, 2015. Two B-52s flew an approximate 44-hour roundtrip mission to Australia where they integrated with Royal Australian Air Force ground forces in the region to conduct a conventional weapons exercise and perform a low approach at RAAF Base Tindal. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Raughton)

Inside the Ring: U.S. Air Force message to China

By Bill Gertz

Kristin Beck, a former Navy SEAL who went by the name Chris Beck, applauded the Obama administration's push to integrate transgender troops into the military. (Associated Press/File)

Kristin Beck, transgender Navy SEAL, says integration must not hinder military readiness

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

"The Defense Department's current regulations regarding transgender service members are outdated and are causing uncertainty that distracts commanders from our core missions," said Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. "We have transgender soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines — real, patriotic Americans — who I know are being hurt by an outdated, confusing, inconsistent approach that's contrary to our value of service and individual merit."

Defense Department likely to allow transgender troops in military

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made clear that he plans to distinguish himself in a crowded field of 15 to 17 candidates by embracing conservative policy prescriptions, regardless of their perceived popularity in the media and polls. (Associated Press)

Scott Walker vows to turn back clock on taxes to Reagan era

By David Keene and John Solomon - The Washington Times

"The Defense Department's current regulations regarding transgender service members are outdated and are causing uncertainty that distracts commanders from our core missions," said Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. "We have transgender soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines — real, patriotic Americans — who I know are being hurt by an outdated, confusing, inconsistent approach that's contrary to our value of service and individual merit."

Pentagon readying plan to lift transgender ban

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Defense Secretary Ash Carter's blunt assessment that Iraqi forces lack the "will to fight" undermines a central premise of President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating the Islamic State: that Iraq's military can effectively handle ground operations so American forces don't have to. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to finally outline strategy for defeating Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter met with President Obama before an update on the Islamic State group at the Pentagon on Monday. (AP Photo)

U.S. troops in Iraq to stay at 3,000; Islamic State fight local to Obama

By Jacqueline Klimas and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by then-Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, arrive to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on Jan. 20, 2013. Mr. Linnington, the Pentagon's new leader of the search for military members missing from past wars, says he will push for more partnerships with private groups that have resources and interest in the MIA accounting mission. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Head of POW-MIA office favors closer links to private groups

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, a CIA is seen in Atlanta. When the CIA killed al-Qaida’s second-in-command in Yemen last month, Obama administration officials celebrated. But many experts are questioning whether the demise of another senior extremist, the latest in a long line of militants to be taken off the battlefield, make the United States and its allies any safer from terrorism. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Obama’s counterterrorism policy facing mounting criticism

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

A B-1B Lancer after refueling during U.S.-led airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria. Military intervention alone won't avert violent upheaval in the Middle East, says Nasir Shansab. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Ciara Wymbs, U.S. Air Force)

Tariq bin Tahar al-‘Awin al-Harzi, Islamic State leader, killed in airstrike

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Lt. Gen. Robert Neller

Robert Neller tapped to be Marine Corps commandant

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times