Department of Defense

Sweeping military reforms include new guidelines for how the Department of Defense must handle child-on-child sexual assault on military bases.

• By Jack Herrera

Two new analyses make clear the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense have downplayed the public-health threat posed by chemicals used to develop Teflon and Scotchgard.

• By Abrahm Lustgarten

After the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly contradicted the official narrative around the previous secretary's departure, legal questions have sprung up about the current leadership of the department.

• By Isaac Arnsdorf

With Special Operations Command personnel making up an increasingly large share of troop levels abroad, the government mandate for wartime transparency becomes less binding.

• By Jared Keller

While the Trump administration has largely rejected climate change as an issue, the Department of Defense and Congress have identified it as a major potential threat to national security.

• By Sean Mowbray

The American military has released hundreds of videos showing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. The victims are not always the intended targets.

• By Jared Keller

It asks for more money for the departments of defense, homeland security, and justice.

• By Francie Diep

That’s according to a study commissioned by the Department of Defense, as well as examples from other countries with open policies already in existence.

• By Francie Diep

The Pentagon is aiming to fundamentally reform the way America's men and women experience justice while in uniform.

• By T. Christian Miller

Senators were already questioning why the Department of Defense was restricting a government watchdog. Now there are criminal investigations and questions about retaliation against a whistleblower.

• By Megan McCloskey

Despite lacking access to key documents and personnel, the inspector general determined that nearly $43 million had been spent on a natural gas station that should have cost closer to $300,000.

• By Megan McCloskey

The American Psychological Association pandered to the CIA out of self-interest. In so doing, it betrayed a core ethical spirit—and opened the path to a dangerous future.

• By Joseph R. Slaughter

Acknowledging that a previous law did not go far enough, the Defense Department says it needs to expand rules.

• By Paul Kiel

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews

The restructuring promises to address many of the problems laid out in a recent ProPublica and NPR investigation.

• By Megan McCloskey

And how new research on this common phenomenon will be used to improve controversial facial-recognition technology.

• By Lauren Kirchner