The Department of Defense is launching a deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative aimed at trimming the size of the civilian workforce, the agency said over the weekend.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set a goal in February for the Defense Department: shed 5 to 8 percent of the civilian ...

Due to the Department of Defense's (DoD) deferred resignation programs for civilian employees, two offices on Fort Carson ...

More details have emerged on the Department of Defense’s Deferred Resignation Program. According to a new memo, the DOD will offer the program to eligible DOD civilian employees for a week between ...

The Department of Defense recently announced a “deferred resignation” program and a voluntary early retirement authority (or ”VERA") for civilian employees — and employees can apply for ...

WASHINGTON — Highly qualified experts, civilian employees who are also reservists and foreign embassy staff do not qualify for the Defense Department’s deferred resignation program because ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth this year ordered a “strategic reduction” of 5% to 8% of civilian personnel. In March, a defense official told the media that some 21,000 Defense Department civilian ...

The Department of Defense approved more than 20,000 applications from civilian employees in the deferred resignation program, according to a senior defense official. The tally amounts to roughly ...

The requirement — driven by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency — ended Wednesday, and civilians were instructed ...

The Defense Department is bulldozing through its cyber workforce, and former Pentagon officials and experts warn that it could cause irreparable damage to the nation's cyber defenses.