Published Sep 21, 2026, 6:25 PM ET · Updated 2 months ago · 1 source

Hegseth to chair Pentagon’s new homeland defense panel

The Hill
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will now oversee a new Pentagon advisory committee focused on homeland security and defense, the first such department panel to do so. The Homeland Defense Board (HDB), announced in the Federal Register on Sept. 11 and first reported by Defense News, is meant to fill what the Pentagon sees as a…