If you have been part of the military community for a bit then you know there are many flaws to our installations and the services they provide. When we think of quality of life for our service members and their families, some things automatically come to mind. For many it is childcare, better on-base healthcare options, safe and adequate housing, efficient installation family support, and the list goes on. Establishing and overseeing different aspects of an installation that supports its tenants is key to creating a much better and ready force.
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Military families rarely have much say in where they live geographically. However, they do get to decide where to live once they receive orders.
Beyond the choice of on-base or off-base housing, there are several factors to consider when picking where to live at your next duty station. Many choose where to live based on travel time to work, dining or schools. Some choose where to live based on housing costs or accessibility.
Everyone values different things when deciding where to live. What’s important to one person may not matter much to another.
With aims to set a new government standard for assessing the robustness and reliability of computer vision models deployed for national security purposes, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is launching an artificial intelligence accreditation pilot program, Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth told reporters Friday.
The NGA director unveiled this initiative — called the Accreditation of GEOINT AI Models, or AGAIM — during a roundtable in Washington hosted by the Defense Writers Group.
If you just got orders to Hawaii and the entire family is ready to start living the island life, there’s probably part of you that is incredibly excited, while the other half is feeling frozen with uncertainty. While Hawaii is technically part of the United States, it’s considered an OCONUS move in the military and requires a good bit of preparation and planning.
Whether you are preparing for the big move soon, or just daydreaming about living the aloha life, here are six tips to make your island transition easier.
Defense Innovation Unit Director Doug Beck traveled to Chile this week, where he joined senior U.S. military leaders and their counterparts from the Latin America and Caribbean regions to discuss shared aims for applying AI and machine learning to confront complex, collective security challenges.
“This is our hemisphere that we live in, and so those allies and partners are critical to us,” he told DefenseScoop Thursday on the sidelines of an event in Washington hosted by the Center for Secure and Emerging Technologies.
As a practicing Physician Assistant of 12 years, I am trained in the conventional medical model; disease states require treatment and preventative screenings prevent disease. Only after I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2023 and I suddenly became a patient did I really understand the gaps in our current model of medical care.
After a diagnosis of cancer, your days are filled with medical appointments: oncologists, chemotherapy and surgeons.
This is Chapter 2 in the Cancer Memoir. Start with Chapter 1 here.
I was diagnosed on November 15, 2023, with stage 3 breast cancer.
I want to rewind a little. Before my diagnosis and starting my cancer journey, I was not aware of what really goes into receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. It is not just one mammogram and boom: you have a diagnosis. It is a combination of images and tests. My journey started with a mammogram, then an ultrasound, and four biopsies later, I had my diagnosis. I say all of this because a lot of this cancer journey is a hurry-up-and-wait adventure.
A Maryland Air National Guard member left paralyzed from “routine” back surgery at a military hospital had no legal recourse because of a 1950 Supreme Court decision called the Feres Doctrine which rendered the government free of legal accountability for service member injury claims.
Now, veteran groups are trying to bring the case before the Supreme Court in the hopes of overturning the doctrine which, they argue, has denied thousands of service members legal recourse.
The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and AI Office kicked off an inaugural “challenge” to industry, asking vendors to pitch their solutions for contested logistics and sustainment to help the Pentagon advance its Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) initiative.
The move, which the mission commander of the U.S.
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