The US Defense Department is in talks with Australia to host a facility to process rare earth minerals, part of an effort to reduce reliance on China.
Even with another defense merger looming, the influence of those firms and the Pentagon's primacy are being questioned, writes William D. Hartung.
Lawmakers moved to block DoD's move to transfer $1 billion in the latest showdown over the border wall that President Trump has vowed to build.
The Pentagon is reviewing Elon Musk's federal security clearance after he smoked marijuana during a September interview, Bloomberg reports
