India, March 3 -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memorandum urging all Defense Department civilian employees to prepare five bullet points detailing their work accomplishments from the prior week.

On Monday, those employees can expect an email from the Defense Department requesting that same information, he wrote in the memo. Within 48 hours they are expected to reply to that email, with their accomplishments included, and add their supervisors as recipients.

The responses will be consolidated internally within the department in order to satisfy related directives from the Office of Personnel Management, Hegseth said in a video statement released at the weekend.

Last month, OPM had sent a request for the same information, bu...