Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the gutting of a Pentagon office shortly after it disclosed that it would be ...

DOT&E, along with IDA, took up the mantle of testing and evaluating all Pentagon weapon systems. By law, no weapon system can proceed to full production without the office's signoff.. But late ...

Hegseth said his directed reorganization, which would reduce the staff, budget and resources at the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), supports the Defense ...

Hegseth halves staff of Pentagon’s testing-oversight office The move may reduce the quality of DOT&E’s second opinions, but may not affect safety, former officials said. Patrick Tucker ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat is blasting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his decision this week to appoint a new director of the Pentagon’s operational test ...