Robert Salesses, a longtime assistant defense secretary, is now the acting defense secretary, Pentagon officials said.

Read about President Trump's appointment of Robert Salesses, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, as acting secretary of ...

Several recent commentators have pointed out that President-elect Donald Trump has designated Steve Feinberg for the position of deputy secretary of Defense to compensate for Pete Hegseth’s lack ...

Duffey, Trump said in a December social media post, is the nominee to run the Pentagon’s office for acquisition and ...

The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump’s nominee Pete ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete ...

During the Obama administration, Farkas was a deputy assistant secretary of defense with a focus on Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. Prior to that, she was a civilian adviser to the top military ...

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Shawn G. Skelly stressed equitable military hiring practices as crucial to national security at a Jan. 13 event. Rebecca D. Patterson, the ...

Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense, and three other career Defense Department civilians will be ...