F ORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit Fort Wayne next week to attend the fourth annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit according to a press release issued Wednesday by Senator Jim Banks.

Hegseth, who spoke for more than an hour to a packed auditorium at the National War College, formally unveiled a slew of policy changes intended to replace his department’s Cold War-era acquisition processes with ones that value speed over rigid requirements. The secretary described the gathering as an opportunity to look executives “in the eye.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaves after a bilateral meeting with Malaysia's Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin ahead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. | Dita Alangkara

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Nov. 7 outlined an ambitious slate of procurement and regulatory reforms aimed at breaking through what he called the Pentagon’s “backwards culture” and accelerating the pace of innovation in military programs.

The trans champion responded to a report from last summer of an admiral being denied a promotion, supposedly because he allowed a drag performance on his aircraft carrier.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth landed Sunday in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, where he is expected to meet his Vietnamese counterpart Phan Van Giang.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is going to extreme lengths to make sure every member of the military listens to what he says. That includes the lengthy speech he made late last month that was basically a diatribe against “fat generals and admirals in the ...

The highly decorated head of a critical Navy research office has been replaced with a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no military experience in a new purge of senior officers at the Pentagon under Pete Hegseth. A three-star general serving on the Joint Staff was also pushed out, according to reports.