Defense News in Brief: This Week in DOD: New Recruiting Task Force, Greenland Shifts to Northcom, DOD Activates More Immigration Support

Source: United States Department of Defense

This week in the Defense Department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the creation of a Military Recruitment Task Force, leaders testified on the department’s fiscal year 2026 budget request and Greenland was shifted from the U.S. European Command’s area of responsibility to the U.S. Northern Command’s area of responsibility.

Defense News in Brief: DOD Will Pass Audit by 2028, Comptroller Confirms

Source: United States Department of Defense

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, performing the duties of the Defense Department comptroller, testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on DOD’s fiscal year 2026 budget in Washington.

Defense News: This Week in DOD: Quelling Violence, Army’s Birthday, DOD’s Budget

Source: United States Department of Defense

This week in the Defense Department, President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent guardsmen and Marines to Los Angeles, Defense Secretary Hegseth and Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed the DOD’s pending budget for 2026, and the Army’s 250th birthday celebrations began.

Defense News: This Week in DOD: New Recruiting Task Force, Greenland Shifts to Northcom, DOD Activates More Immigration Support

Source: United States Department of Defence

This week in the Defense Department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the creation of a Military Recruitment Task Force, leaders testified on the department’s fiscal year 2026 budget request and Greenland was shifted from the U.S. European Command’s area of responsibility to the U.S. Northern Command’s area of responsibility.

Defense News: DOD Will Pass Audit by 2028, Comptroller Confirms

Source: United States Department of Defence

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, performing the duties of the Defense Department comptroller, testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on DOD’s fiscal year 2026 budget in Washington.