2026 National Defense Strategy Rather than protect and advance Americans’ interests, they opened our borders, forgot the wisdom of the Monroe Doctrine, ceded influence in our hemisphere, and outsourced America’s industry, including the defense industrial base (DIB) upon which our forces rely They sent America’s brave sons and daughters to fight war after rudderless war to topple regimes and nation-build halfway
Establishment of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 - media. defense. gov Purpose To direct the Secretary of the Army (SecArmy) to disestablish the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Office (JCO) and to establish a Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) that reports to the Deputy Secretary ofDefense, to better align authorities and resources to rapidly deliver Joint C-sUAS capabilities to America's warfighters, defeat adversary threats
2025 Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments . . . China’s record of canceling defense and military engagements in response to perceived offenses or heightened tensions suggests that China views defense and military engagements as a tool to punish or reward the United States for its perceived behavior, instead of these engagements being inherently valuable to maintaining peace and stability
FACT SHEET: Homeland Defense Policy Guidance (HDPG) The 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) states that the top priority of the Department of Defense (DoD) is to defend the homeland, paced to the growing multi-domain threat posed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) The 2023 Homeland Defense Policy Guidance (HDPG) aims to drive action across DoD to deter threats of aggression or strategic attack on the homeland across multiple domains and
Memo Accelerating Secure Software - dodcio. defense. gov Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) practices within the Department must adapt and keep pace with software development and the increasing complexity and evolution of supply chain risk Lengthy, outdated cybersecurity authorization processes frustrate agile, continuous delivery
Acquisition Transformation Strategy - media. defense. gov Executive Order (E O ) 14265, Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Industrial Base, directed the Department to prepare this strategy, consistent with President Trump’s direction to transform the current defense acquisition system to ensure delivery of capabilities to the American warfighter at pace to deter and, if
Recognition of Outstanding Department of War Civilian Employees In addition to the ongoing efforts across the Department to develop plans of action to retain, reward, and recognize our outstanding civilian employees, I hereby direct all Do W Component heads and Principal Staff Assistants (PSAs) of the Office of the Secretary of War to take immediate action to recognize and reward our very best civilians with meaningful monetary awards consistent with the
Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War Executing a set of "Pace-Setting Projects" (PSPs) that will demonstrate the accelerated pace of execution, focus, and ethos we need to stay ahead The PSPs will also serve as tangible, outcome-oriented vehicles for rapidly completing our buildout of the foundational AI enablers (infrastructure, data, models, policies, and talent) needed to accelerate AI integration across the entire Department
DoD COTS - Info and Comm Tech Supply Chain - dodcio. defense. gov The DoD must ensure information and communication technologies (ICT) deployed in every warfighting domain are capable of securely and reliably operating within contested environments As the Department's ICT risk manager, the Office of the Chief Information Oficer (OCIO) is leading this efort This intensified efort is driven by the need to adapt our cybersecurity and supply chain risk