In a statement accompanying his report on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization, Pentagon Inspector General Robert ...

The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in late 2023 and early 2024 “increased ...

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 ...

during which his authorities were temporarily transferred to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. "He is now back home ...

Hicks has sat in all of the Pentagon’s major meetings on it. She’s read every story published about the program, prepared in ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Kathleen H. Hicks is a Deputy Secretary for the Department of Defense with 76 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Senate Committee as a ...

The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report about Defense Secretary Austin’s failure to quickly disclose his hospitalization in early 2024.

But Austin “did not transfer his authorities” during that period, the review found, nor did he inform Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks or his chief of staff of the procedures.