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How Pentagon Is Protecting Defense Supply Chains From COVID-19
Apr 27th, 2020, COMMENTARY BY Maiya Clark, Research Assistant, Center for National Defense
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The coronavirus is causing disruption a...
Goldfein predicts stop movement order halting military moves will continue past May 11
Diana Stancy Correll, Air Force Times
The stop movement orders the Pentagon issued last month to suspend PCS and temporary duty moves will likely ...
Military stop move order could go into August, Goldfein says
By Scott Maucione, Federal News Network
The military is likely to extend its stop move order past the original sixty days to avoid the spread of c...
HASC chairman could use next stimulus to help defense industrial base
By: Aaron Mehta, Defense News
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is keeping a close eye on the health of the defense i...
Pentagon memo advises acquisition officials to use ‘regulatory tools’ to keep industrial base strong
By Marjorie Censer / March 31, 2020 at 1:24 PM
A memo signed yesterday by a top Defense Department acquisition official says DOD agencies and the s...
Agencies can virtually onboard new employees during coronavirus pandemic
By Nicole Ogrysko, Federal News Network, March 24, 2020 3:43 pm
In an effort to continue federal hiring activities but observe social dista...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update 28 March 2020
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Mar 28...
Troops, families trapped in limbo as some PCS moves put on hold for two months
Karen Jowers and Meghann Myers, Military Times
In the days following the Army’s decision to suspend travel in and out of the regions more heavily ...
Senator David Perdue Highlights Workforce Needs At Robins Air Force Base
Skilled Civilian Workers Needed For Aircraft Maintenance
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA) today questioned the Honorable Matthe...
The Air Force Is Looking for a Successor to its MQ-9 Reaper Drone
11 Mar 2020, Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
The MQ-9 Reaper has been the U.S. Air Force's hunter-killer drone for more than a decade, but it simpl...
America’s future battle network is key to multidomain defense
By: Gen. David Goldfein and Gen. Jay Raymond, Defense News
When Americans think about military power, they often associate our wars with iconic comma...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – February 29, 2020
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Feb 29...
DOD chiefs try to sell Congress a budget that would ‘divest to invest’
By Tony Bertuca , Inside Defense, February 26, 2020 at 5:20 PM
Pentagon leaders appeared before skeptical lawmakers today to pitch them a budget pl...
War on Autopilot? It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks
BY PATRICK TUCKERTECHNOLOGY EDITOR, DefenseOne
Despite defense contractors’ glittering demonstrations, difficult realities are challenging the mili...
Air Force makes reductions to B-1s, A-10s, Global Hawk drones and more in FY21 budget request
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News 20 hours ago
WASHINGTON — For the past several months, Air Force leaders have hyped the fiscal year 2021 budge...
U.S. Air Force Upgrading C-17, C-130H Avionics as Legacy Supplier Base Falls
By Frank Wolfe | February 4, 2020, Avionics International
ADS-B Out, Air Force Life Cycle Maintenance Center, C-130 Hercules, C-17, satcom, U.S. Air ...
Air Force developing virtual reality C-130 maintenance training program
Diana Stancy Correll, Air Force Times
Staff Sgt. Kenneth Renfrow, a maintenance qualifications training instructor with the 19th Maintenance Group...
Air Force’s top general doesn’t want to get mired in ‘budget paranoia’
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News
WASHINGTON — As Navy and Army leaders jostle for a bigger piece of the Defense Department budget, the Air Force’s...
Air Force Seeks Innovators At First ABMS Industry Day
"What I hope industry will see in ABMS is a pot of money for connecting things, both new things and legacy things," says Will Roper as the Air Force g...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update, January 25, 2020
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Jan 25, 2020...
Air Force using agile approach to connect systems for battle
By Scott Maucione | Federal News Network
January 21, 2020 6:41 pm
The Air Force is taking an agile approach to its newest battle management sy...
Georgia Chamber CEO Chris Clark Gives a Recap of the Eggs & Issues Breakfast (Video)
Middle Georgia CEO, Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Chris Clark, President and CEO of the Georgia Chamber, talks about the success of the recent Eggs ...
The Air Force tested its Advanced Battle Management System. Here’s what worked, and what didn’t.
By: Valerie Insinna, C4ISRNet 22 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The first field test of the U.S. Air Force’s experimental Advanced Battle Management Sys...
Vital Signs 2020: Defense Sector Straining to Attract STEM Talent
By Yasmin Tadjdeh, National Defense, 1/22/2020
This is part-two of a four-part series based on "Vital Signs: The Declining Health and Readiness of ...
MDO Exclusive: Air Force Targets Primary Role in Joint C2
We offer an exclusive interview with the Air Force's leading civilian and military officer for JADC2 development, Preston Dunlap and Brig. Gen. David ...
Chrissy Miner of 21st Century Partnership, Defense Budget – Video
Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
Chrissy Miner, President and CEO of 21st Century Partnership, talks about current funding issues and explains the opt...
USAF Scientific Advisers Lay Out 2020 Study Plans
Jan. 9, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen, Air Force Magazine
The Air Force’s science advisers in 2020 will launch three studies on future communications, ...
Air Force, Navy, Army test Advanced Battle Management System
Jan 03, 2020, By Capt. Cara Bousie and Charles Pope, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) – In the first fie...
5G powers Air Force ‘smart base of the future’
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ, GCN, JAN 08, 2020
As Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida’s panhandle continues to rebuild after taking a direct hit from Hurri...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – December 2019
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Dec 20...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – 30 Nov 2019 (reloaded due to website hack)
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Nov 30 2019...
Defense leaders hope 5G can improve base security
By: Adam Stone, December 4, 2019 C4ISRNet
Emerging 5G networks promise to bring powerful new connectivity to military bases and soldiers in the fi...
US logistics boss talks risks to the supply chain and protective measures
By: Jill Aitoro, Defense News
WASHINGTON — It’s often said that the U.S. Department of Defense is the biggest buyer in the world. But the DoD also ...
Unmanned aircraft could provide low-cost boost for Air Force’s future aircraft inventory, new study says
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Air Force looks to increase the size and capability of its aircraft inventory,...
Wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring Fortifies Air Force C-5M Fleet
Jack Browne, Microwaves & RF | Oct 23, 2019
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has awarded two contracts to Crane Aerospace & Electronics ...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – 26 October 2019
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Oct 26...
Air Force base facing dilemma of aging workforce
By: The Associated Press, Air Force Times
DAYTON, Ohio — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is facing the increasingly common dilemma of an ag...
For Air Force, tech modernization and multi-domain operations are ‘basically the same,’ deputy CIO says
Written by Billy Mitchell, OCT 8, 2019 | FEDSCOOP
To some, the Air Force’s widespread push for digital transformation may appear to be just another...
Air Force paints a digital future where data from satellites play central role
by Sandra Erwin — September 30, 2019, Space News
In a few months the Air Force will start a series of experiments to try to connect fight...
Air Force Wants Custom-Built Online Game Environment to Test Out New Capabilities
OCTOBER 1, 2019, NEXTGOV
The branch will host a three-phase interactive challenge to identify possible solutions.
To better keep up with the rap...
Is this military spouse federal hiring authority working? Feds — and spouses — want to know
By: Karen Jowers, Military Times
How many military spouses are actually getting hired by federal agencies under a special hiring authority that’s b...
Retirees, family members to see increases in dental and vision premiums next year
By: Patricia Kime, Military Times
Military retirees and family members who have dental or vision coverage through the Federal Employees Dental and ...
AMC Wants to Turn C-5Ms into Flying Hospitals
BRIAN EVERSINE, Air Force Magazine
The Air Force is vetting its biggest aircraft as a new option for large-scale aeromedical evacuation.
Air Mo...
Pentagon official in charge of F-35 operating costs and privatized military housing resigns
Jeff Schogol,
September 26, 2019 at 01:22 PM
As the Pentagon waits for Congress to confirm the new Army and Air Force secretaries and the vice ...
Military Times launches job board for veterans
By: Military Times staff
The Military Times has unveiled a new comprehensive job board that aims to connect veterans with thousands of job opportun...
Air Force Pushes 3D Printing To Boost Readiness
By THERESA HITCHENS, Breaking Defense
AFA 2019: It may sound boring, but maintenance of military aircraft is a big deal — and one that the Air Fo...
How to bridge the divide between civilians and the military, first responders
By: Kevin M. Schmiegel and Patrick A. Burke, Military Times
For 18 years our nation has been at war. In the face of conflict and adversity at home ...
The Air Force Is Ready to Scrap Older Aircraft to Prepare for Future Wars
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
The U.S. Air Force no longer wants to kick the can down the road on aging aircraft that may not be suitable for a f...
‘Controversial changes’ are coming in US Air Force’s next budget, its top civilian says
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s top civilian hinted the service will make major cuts to certain legacy programs...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update 31 August 2019
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Aug 31...
House Majority Leader: ‘If we do a CR, it’ll be short term’
By Nicole Ogrysko | Federal News Network
August 22, 2019 5:24 pm
With August recess winding down in two weeks, lawmakers are eyeing a long leg...
Most C-130s returned to flying after Air Force completes inspection
By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: August 22, 2019
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The Air Force has completed inspections of more than a...
JUST IN: Air Force Advanced Battle Management System Study to Be Delayed
8/20/2019, By Mandy Mayfield, National Defense
The completion of the Air Force’s analysis of alternatives for an advanced battle management system,...
Plans for a new base closing round may be running out of time: Report
By: Leo Shane III, Military Times
The next few months could decide whether the Defense Department gets another base closing round in the next decad...
Hackers Find Serious Vulnerabilities in an F-15 Fighter Jet System
16 Aug 2019, Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
Hackers have successfully infiltrated a data system in an F-15 Eagle fighter jet. But it was with the ...
Air Force Trying to Rally Congressional Support for NGAD
8/7/2019, —JOHN A. TIRPAK, Air Force Magazine
The Air Force needs to convince Congress about the merit of its Next-Generation Air Dominance progra...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – July 27, 2019
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Jul 27...
Senators Isakson, Perdue Introduce Bill to Help Fill Critical Vacancies at Georgia Military Depots
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) are taking action to eliminate a current six-month waiting period befor...
In test to be top military adviser, Milley emphasizes funding and space
By Scott Maucione, Federal News Network
In a test to be the top military adviser to the president, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley stressed th...
Here’s the No. 1 rule for US Air Force’s new advanced battle management system
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News
LE BOURGET, France, and WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has started work on a data architecture for its Advanced ...
Congress returns to budget stalemate
By: Joe Gould, Defense News, 8 July 2019
WASHINGTON ― Lawmakers returning to Washington, D.C., this week are in a race against the clock to reach a...
US Air Force’s acquisition chief talks new B-52 engines and the future of battle management
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News, 8 July 2019
LE BOURGET, France — Will Roper, the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive, wants the service to sh...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update June 28, 2019
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Jun 28 Final...
Online Program is Helping Military Members and Spouses Get Law Degrees
Military.com | By Richard Sisk, 22 Jun 2019
From Okinawa to Germany and bases in the U.S., military spouses and active-duty troops are attending a ...
Senator David Perdue Offers Bold Solutions To Fix Congress’s Broken Funding Process
Staff Report From Georgia CEO
Friday, June 14th, 2019
U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, is proposing ...
C-130Hs to get avionics upgrade in half-billion dollar deal
By: Stephen Losey, Air Force Times
The Air Force has awarded a $499 million contract to L3 Technologies to modernize avionics for the service’s Gua...
Army turns to smart technology to defend against threats to installations
By Joe Lacdan, Army.mil May 28, 2019
WASHINGTON -- Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment Alex Beehler doesn't n...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – May 25, 2019
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update May 25...
Here’s what the new head of Air Force Materiel Command is thinking about as he prepares to take its reins
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News
WASHINGTON — The new head of Air Force Materiel Command wants to listen and learn before cementing his priorities...
A flat budget will prove fatal for military transformation
By: Rick Berger, Defense News
This month, the House Appropriations Committee kicked off the annual process of congressional oversight of the Pentag...
DOD Official Cites Widening Military-Civilian Gap
US Dept of Defense, MAY 16, 2019 | BY JIM GARAMONE
The Defense Department wants to bridge the widening military-civilian gap, the Pentagon's top p...
Air Force No. 2 civilian to take over as acting secretary
BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 05/15/19 05:33 PM EDT 10, The Hill
Air Force Under Secretary Matt Donovan will take over as the service's acting secretary begi...
Proposed Legislation Would Ease Professional Licensing Process for Military Spouses
Karen Pence speaks to military spouses during a Military OneSource live event at the Family Readiness Group Center on Fort Bragg, N.C., on Nov. 2, 201...
Who Wants to Be the New Air Force Secretary? Perhaps Not Many
18 Apr 2019
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
As the Trump administration shops around for a new Air Force secretary, experts warn it may not be s...
These are the five areas where the Air Force wants to see an explosion of technology
By: Valerie Insinna, Defense News
WASHINGTON— The Air Force has a new science and technology strategy, and it’s built around the idea that it needs...
The Defense Department Is Boosting Military Spouse Job Opportunities
16 Apr 2019
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
The Defense Department has changed some rules to make it easier for military spouses to get jobs at d...
Roper: Air Force Cloud May Track & Target All From Space To Ground — EXCLUSIVE
By COLIN CLARK, Breaking Defense
SPACE SYMPOSIUM: After years of dead-end efforts that cost more than $1 billion to build a more effective satellit...
Air Force Releases 2018 Acquisition Report
Secretary of Air Force Public Affairs Office
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) --
The Air Force released the Fiscal Year 2018 Air Force Acquisition Annual R...
Quality education for children is a military readiness issue
By: Christi Ham, Military Times
For several years, it’s been a truism that many primary and secondary students don’t have the skills or knowledge b...
USAF Considers Networking, Not Recapping, Aging ISR Planes
4/2/2019
—RACHEL S. COHEN, Air Force Magazine
Legacy big-wing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance planes like the RC-135 variants co...
Reserve seeks to speed up hiring of maintainers
By: Stephen Losey, Air Force Times
The Air Force Reserve Command on Monday said it is expanding its use of direct hiring authority in an effort to ...
New Air Force installations strategy plans for sustained budget increases and demolished buildings
By Scott Maucione @smaucioneWFED, Federal News Network
March 18, 2019 4:34 pm
As the Air Force struggles with $33 billion in deferred maintenan...
Air Force Asks for 4,400 More Airmen, New F-15EX Fighter in Budget Request
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
The U.S. Air Force is hoping to grow its total force by 4,400 airmen, add a new fighter to its inventory, and pump ...
21st Century Partnership Quarterly Meeting – 21 March 2019 at 4:00 p.m.
Please join us at the 21st Century Partnership Quarterly Meeting on 21 March at 4:00 p.m. at the Museum of Aviation, Art Gallery, Second Floor. We wi...
Air Force Secretary Wilson to resign in May, return to academia
By: Stephen Losey, Air Force Times
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson will resign at the end of May and take a job in academia.
The Air Force re...
Air Force Base Saves $1 Billion by Reusing Old Equipment
16 Feb 2019
Military.com | By Oriana
Pawlyk
For the past seven years, three Air Force civilians
at Vandenberg Air ...
The US Air Force Has Won Control of the Space Force
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER, Defense One, FEBRUARY
12, 2019
Six months ago, service leaders said they were being cut out
of the planning process. Now they...
Trump faces royal flush of opposition from defense committee leaders to using military construction funds for wall
By Scott Maucione,
Federal News Radio
February 12, 2019 1:16 pm
Another top lawmaker is opposing
the use of military construction funds t...
Rapid Sustainment Office installs 3D parts on C-5
By Brian Brackens Published February 06, 2019
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. – A C-5 Super Galaxy with
the tail number 70035 is the latest recipie...
Air Force: F-35 Buys Will Continue Regardless of Interest in F-15X
2 Feb 2019
Military.com | By Oriana
Pawlyk
The U.S. Air Force is not backing away from
future F-35 Joint Strike Fi...
If the money is there, new and improved F-15s could be coming soon to the Air Force
By: Jeff Martin, DefenseNews
IN THE
AIR OVER KENTUCKY — The U.S. Air Force could buy a new version of the F-15,
known as the F-15X, as long as ...
Viewpoint: Industrial Base Gears Up for Great Power Conflict
1/24/2019
By Jeffery A. Green, National Defense
Magazine
For decades, free-trade ideology has dominated
discussions about manufacturing ...
Pentagon Owns Fewer Buildings Than Previously Thought: Audit
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER, Defense One, JANUARY 9, 2019
The Navy was counting buildings that were demolished and
the Army was counting uninhabitable fac...
Rep. Austin Scott Applauds Middle Georgia Being Named ‘Great American Defense Community’
January 3, 2019
Press Release
This is the second year in a row a community in Georgia’s Eighth
District has received this honor.
WASHIN...
FEDVIP gift: Military retirees, others get extra three months to enroll in dental, vision insurance
By: Karen Jowers, Military Times
Government
officials are giving those in the military community who are eligible for new
benefits under t...
New BAH rates for 2019 rise 2.5 percent
By: Military Times
staff 3 days ago
The
Pentagon on Friday released the new 2019 Basic Allowance for Housing rates that
will...
Services Need to Assess the Effectiveness of Their Initiative to Maintain Critical Skills
Direct link to report: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696055.pdf
Highlights:
The Department of Defense's 17 facilities that perform
m...
FEDVIP Extends Military Retiree Dental,Vision Enrollment Window
11 Dec 2018
Military.com | By Amy
Bushatz
Federal officials have extended dental insurance enrollment for thousands of military r...
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update – December 2018
21st Century Partnership Monthly Update Dec 7...