April 4, 2025 The Department of Defense announces Deferred Resignation Program The Department of Defense announced a Deferred Resignation Program and Voluntary Early Retirement Authority for civilian employees
Jan. 16, 2025 DAF to launch National Mentoring Month panels, programs, events NMM introduces the Total Force to a series of panels, events and interactive discussions on mentoring as an enterprise imperative, ensuring greater awareness of the mentoring opportunities available to all Airman and Guardians.
Nov. 25, 2024 Hanscom Air Force Base members nominated for 2024 Defense Acquisition Awards The Theater Battle Control Division at Hanscom AFB was nominated for the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award, the highest award in the Department of Defense for acquisition teams.
Sept. 12, 2024 Cloud One expands in midst of Great Power Competition Cloud One offers a secured government cloud service pre-enabled to meet defense security requirements and zero-trust compliance.
July 10, 2024 AFLCMC contract awarded for two satellites to build on existing weather data constellation Tomorrow.io was awarded the $10.2 million contract to manufacture, build and deliver two additional microwave satellites to orbit, where they will provide a cumulative 10 months of data across all on-orbit microwave sounder satellites.
Nov. 21, 2023 AFMC Engineering releases update to Modular Open Systems guidebook The Air Force Materiel Command Systems Engineering Directorate launched version 2.0 of the “Guidebook for Implementing Modular Open Systems Approach in Weapon Systems,” Nov.7.
Oct. 5, 2023 DOD announces new actions to prevent suicide in the military Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin released a memo directing urgent actions to address suicide in the military community.
Aug. 28, 2023 DoD announces changes to special leave accrual policy for service members The revised provisions of section 701 U.S.C. title 10 reduced the maximum amount of accrued leave that may be retained by a service member at the end of the FY from 120 days to 90 days.
March 30, 2023 DoD announces new bereavement leave benefit for service members The Defense Department announced new non-chargeable, paid bereavement leave benefit for service members.
Aug. 16, 2022 DoD releases first departmentwide social media policy The Defense Department released a policy that spells out how DoD military and civilian personnel should use official social media accounts to best advance the mission of the U.S. military and further instill trust in the credibility of the DoD.