A total of 124 members of the Democratic caucus in Congress voted to grant a waiver allowing former Army general Lloyd Austin to serve as President Biden’s defense secretary, after voting against granting the same waiver to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis when he was nominated four years ago.
President-elect Joe Biden's defense secretary nominee, Lloyd Austin, dodged questions from senators about how he would update America's nuclear weapons as China and Russia increase their own stockpiles.
Retired general Lloyd Austin, Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of defense, could collect up to $1.7 million from leaving his job at a defense contracting giant. 
China and Russia achieved major progress in their respective space programs this week. 
Congress is weighing new disclosure laws to close a financial loophole that has been exploited by the United States' enemies to fund terrorist and trafficking operations. 
The far left's campaign to treat climate change as a national security threat could hamstring President-elect Joe Biden's Pentagon and cause significant threats to military readiness, lawmakers and experts told the Washington Free Beacon. 
The U.S. Navy successfully tested a new missile defense system that can shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile from outer space, according to a Missile Defense Agency announcement. 
German foreign minister Heiko Maas said NATO and defense spending will "no longer be as much in the spotlight" during a Joe Biden administration, Politico reported Monday. 
American airstrikes have killed a dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban members in Syria and Afghanistan since Thursday. 
The Trump administration is upending decades of American retreat in the final frontier to pull ahead of Russia and China in a 21st-century space race, according to a top Trump administration official. 