Kathleen Hicks is the Department of Defense’s deputy secretary. She was confirmed by the Senate in February 2021, making her the first woman to assume the second-highest ranking civilian job at ...

On March 17, 2025, Feinberg became the nation’s 36th Deputy Defense Secretary, succeeding former DSD Kathleen Hicks. Feinberg is responsible for the management and budget of Pentagon operations ...

The reason for the switch remains unclear as climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of extreme ...

Two wrongs do not make a right. There’s really no argument on that point. But morality, morals, right, wrong and politics are ...

The U.S. military has been identified as the single-largest consumer of energy in the U.S. and the world’s single-largest institutional consumer of petroleum ...

Two wrongs do not make a right. There’s really no argument on that point. But morality, morals, right, wrong and politics are easy to grapple with from the sidelines when you are inclined to think ...

Austin’s own Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, did not know he had stepped out for medical treatment. He disappeared on Jan. 1, 2024. Hicks found out on Jan. 3, but did not know ...