Allen Control Systems CEO Steve Simoni said DOGE's impending DoD audit will uncover "all kinds of wasteful spending" amid the Pentagon's need to modernize to keep pace with China.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said force posture across the world will be reviewed to account for the different "strategic assumptions" between President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden.

The Pentagon said on Friday that it would fire 5,400 civilian probationary workers starting this week in the first of what is likely to be a wave of larger dismissals at the Defense Department. NYT reporter Helene Cooper joins Morning Joe to discuss.

The software company with close ties to the U.S. military saw its stock plummet by double digits in less than two days.

Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute and a military expert, writes that the sacking of key Pentagon officials could set the U.S. up to better counter the growing threat from China.

Department of Government Efficiency staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the military’s probationary employees, U.S. officials said. The military services each had until end of business Tuesday to identify their probationary employees.

DOGE looks to investigate the budget for the Pentagon as well as seeing where funds are going for various other departments of the federal government.

The Department of Defense Education Activity school system is pulling books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics” from its classrooms and libraries around the world,

"Unmanned capabilities merit continued investment but they are far from capable of replacing F-35 and may not be for some time."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s overseas trip started with heckling from military families. That turned out to one the best moments of his excursion.

Members of Elon Musk's government efficiency team are poised to arrive at the Pentagon in the coming days. Officials tell NPR that DOGE has a target of cutting 8% from next year's budget. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly and provided details on condition of anonymity.

The Defense Department has told the military services to reach out once again to service members who were forced out or voluntarily left the military because they refused to get the COVID vaccine and see if they want to reenlist.