WASHINGTON -- Buying software is inherently different than buying hardware, but the DOD procurement system has not always recognized that. This is changing, said Ellen Lord, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, at a Pentagon news conference this afternoon. Software is the “go juice” of DOD in the digital age, and changes in [...]
WASHINGTON -- China continues to build up its military to challenge and supplant the United States as the preeminent power in the Indo-Pacific region, the assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific security affairs said today. Randall G. Schriver briefed the Pentagon’s press corps following the release of the new China Military Power Report. He said China [...]
WASHINGTON -- One of many areas Defense Department research labs focus on is medicine. Some of their innovative work was on display April 25 during the third biennial DOD Lab Day at the Pentagon. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury More than 92,000 service members sustained at least one traumatic brain injury between 2010-12, with about 85 [...]
WASHINGTON -- Sexual assault runs counter to every fiber of the U.S. military and DOD officials are “disheartened and frustrated” with the data in the annual report on sexual assault in the military that showed the incidents rose. Elizabeth Van Winkle, the executive director of DOD’s office of force resiliency, said the prevalence of sexual [...]
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. doesn’t have any wiggle room in the effort to upgrade its nuclear capability: modernization must be done now, without interruption, or the U.S. stands to lose its deterrence edge, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. The Russians and the Chinese are doing [...]
WASHINGTON -- Performing the duties of deputy defense secretary, David L. Norquist spoke at the Defense Department Gears of Government Awards Ceremony in the Pentagon May 1. “The reason reform is in the National Defense Strategy is because it’s so essential to what we’re trying to do to defend the country and protect the taxpayer,” [...]
WASHINGTON -- DOD officials said they are concerned over the revelations from the annual report on sexual assault in the military released today. Navy Rear Adm. Ann Burkhardt, director of the DOD’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, said the military had made progress on combatting the crime over the past decade, but this year’s [...]
WASHINGTON -- Combating sexual assault and sexual harassment is about leaders stepping up at all levels of command, Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Wayne Troxell, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman said. Troxell spoke as DOD released its annual report on sexual assault in the military that shows the prevalence of sexual assaults against [...]
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is seeing an increase in sexual assault concentrated on young servicewomen, said Elizabeth Van Winkle, DOD’s executive director for force resiliency. Van Winkle spoke following today’s release of DOD’s Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military. The greatest increase was in sexual assaults directed against service women ages 17 to [...]
WASHINGTON -- Americans need to understand the strategic reasoning behind the U.S. nuclear triad and what those capabilities mean to the nation and the world, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva spoke at a Strategic Deterrent Coalition symposium in Arlington, Virginia, last week. Russian President [...]
