The D Brief: SecDef seeks $8B shift; Trump’s Ukraine plans, decried; Quantum chip breakthrough?; Warship maintenance goals; And a bit more.

SecDef’s funding switch Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has directed Pentagon officials to redirect about $50 billion—about 8% of the expected total of roughly $850 billion—in the Biden administration’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal, Defense One’s Audrey Decker reports.  The funds are to come, in part, from “so-called ‘climate change’ and other woke programs” and “excessive bureaucracy,” and go toward Trump-administration