Nasa logo, left, and Elon Musk (Image credits: AP) Nasa and the Pentagon moved quickly this past week to contact alternative spaceflight providers after a public spat between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk raised new fears about the government’s reliance on SpaceX.The situation escalated when Musk, responding to Trump’s threat to cancel SpaceX […]
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (File photo) The Pentagon’s watchdog is investigating whether any of Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s staff were instructed to delete Signal messages that possibly communicated sensitive military details to a journalist, based on documents and information from two sources familiar with the inquiry, quoted by the Associated Press.The investigation centres on the […]
A US Army Black Hawk helicopter (File) The United States Army has revealed that an army helicopter which lost contact with military air traffic controllers near the Pentagon earlier this month, was off-radar for about 20 seconds.As a result, two commercial jets, which were about to land at Washington’s Ronald Reagan airport, were forced to […]
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth Defence secretary Pete Hegseth implemented strict press restrictions at the Pentagon, requiring government escorts for journalists in previously accessible areas.In a significant policy shift announced late Friday, defense secretary Pete Hegseth implemented strict press restrictions at the Pentagon, requiring government escorts for journalists in previously accessible areas.The new measures affect […]
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth (Image credit: AP) Bedevilled by leaks to the media during his short tenure, Defence Secretary Pete Hegsethissued a series of restrictions on the press late Friday that include banning reporters from entering wide swaths of the Pentagon without a government escort – areas where the press has had access in past […]
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a 20% cut to the number of four-star generals and admirals across all military branches. The move, which applies across all military branches, comes amid wider efforts to reduce the federal government’s size and restructure its leadership along ideological lines. The directive, revealed in a memo signed by […]
Joe Kasper (File photo; credit: LinkedIn) The US department of defense chief of staff under defense secretary Pete Hegseth will depart his role, according to a senior defence official’s announcement on Thursday.“Joe Kasper will continue to serve President Trump as a Special Government Employee (SGE) handling special projects at the Department of Defense,” the official […]
US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth used a commercial internet line—known in IT terms as a “dirty line”—installed in his Pentagon office to bypass standard defence department security systems and access encrypted messaging platforms like Signal from a personal computer, source told news agency Associated Press.The “dirty line” was specifically used to access websites and […]
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.Hegseth’s move facilitated easier communications in a […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference in Panama City, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) “Ask the Houthis how he’s doing,” President Trump quipped this Easter Monday, defending his embattled Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. But behind the bravado and bunny suits on the White House lawn, top officials are […]
