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Special leave accrual for service members
April 20, 2020
Department of Defense seal

DOD ramps up COVID-19 response efforts from coast to coast
April 11, 2020
Sailors transport patient.

DOD continually examines, modifies COVID-19 response
April 4, 2020
Department of Defense briefing

DOD establishes task force to meet U.S. medical equipment needs
March 27, 2020
DOD Establishes Task Force to Meet U.S. Medical Equipment Needs

DOD releases overseas stop movement order in response to COVID-19
March 26, 2020

DOD poised to provide masks, ventilators, labs for coronavirus fight
March 18, 2020
Dr. Esper talking

DOD issues flexible instructions on response to Coronavirus
March 10, 2020
One hundred forty-seven passengers traveling from China’s Hubei province arrived at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Feb. 7. They evacuated China to avoid infection by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, spreading from the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the global epidemic.

Military health system changes focus on readiness
February 21, 2020
Worker draws blood

Defense bill to fund pay raise for military, civilian personnel
January 2, 2020
Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley brief the media at the Pentagon, Dec. 20, 2019.

DOD funds firefighting foam research for a PFAS-free alternative
November 20, 2019
Aqueous film-forming foams, or AFFF, rapidly extinguish fuel fires, but they contain PFAS, which stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Some PFAS pollution stems from the use of firefighting foams.

Excess ARNORTH computer equipment provides educational opportunities
November 18, 2019
Army Staff Sgt. Marvin Tyler Nelson and Sgt. 1st Class Eugenio Moya, U.S. Army North, pack computers for transport to Wilkinson County High School in Woodville, Mississippi. The computers are being donated to the school through the Department of Defense’s Computers for Learning program.

New DOD program leaves sexual predators nowhere to hide
August 5, 2019
A new Defense Department program called Catch a Serial Offender, or “CATCH,” aims to make it more difficult for perpetrators of sexual assault to evade identification and capture by law enforcement.

DOD partners with VA, implements Women’s Health Transition Training Program
July 22, 2019
The Department of Veterans Affairs partnered with the Department of Defense to implement the first Women’s Health Transition Training. The program is an in-person and virtual course designed to provide a female perspective to active-duty, Reserve and National Guard servicewomen who plan to transition to civilian or Reserve/National Guard status.

DOD to take over background checks by fiscal 2020
July 1, 2019
To gain a security clearance, potential employees spend a significant amount of time gathering personal information and entering it into an online web-based system.

DOD, OPM team up for improved online training
May 9, 2019
A new memorandum of agreement between the Defense Department and the Office of Personnel Management promises to reduce the cost for training for defense employees and enhance the training experience. The two agencies signed the memo May 3, making OPM's “USALearning” program DOD's partner as the "centralized source for training, education, and domain-specific expertise."

Acting SECDEF: National Defense Strategy is ‘undisputed driver’ in budget request
March 27, 2019
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan (center), and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford (left), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, testify to the House Armed Services Committee on the fiscal year 2020 national defense budget request March 26.

$718.3 billion defense budget request focuses on threats
March 13, 2019
At $718.3 billion, the fiscal year 2020 defense budget request announced at the Pentagon March 12 by defense officials is an increase from last year’s $685 billion approved budget.

DOD sends Space Force legislation to Congress
March 5, 2019
he Defense Department has proposed legislation that would create the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. If approved by Congress, the U.S. Space Force would be the first military service established since the Air Force stood up in 1947.

Air Force formalizes policy on retention of non-deployable Airmen
February 20, 2019
In accordance with Department of Defense policy on military retention of non-deployable service members, the Air Force implemented its guidance in a memo signed Feb. 19.

Airmen encouraged to participate in Health Related Behaviors Survey
February 11, 2019
The Defense Department asked the independent, non-profit RAND Corporation to design, field, and analyze the confidential web-based survey.