March 5, 2025 DoD offers Health Care Flexible Spending Account to service members Service members can sign up for the new Health Care Flexible Spending Account putting money in pretax earnings into an account which can be spent on qualifying health care expenses.
Feb. 21, 2025 Hegseth addresses strengthening military by cutting excess, refocusing DOD budget Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed his priorities of strengthening the military by cutting fiscal fraud, waste and abuse at DOD while also finding ways to refocus the department's budget.
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.
Jan. 15, 2025 FY25 NDAA Provides Boost for Junior Enlisted Starting in April 2025 all Department of Defense junior enlisted service members will receive a significant pay boost after the U.S. Senate approved a $895 billion dollar defense policy on Dec. 18, 2024.
June 3, 2024 Building Prevention Together: The Integrated Resiliency Office Recently, the 17th Training Wing established the Integrated Resilience Office to strengthen and promote the resiliency and readiness of military members through enhancing initiatives that support the overall well-being of service members and their families.
March 8, 2024 DAF leaders talk budget, reoptimizing the force DAF senior leaders emphasized the need for on-time appropriations and provided their perspective on the priorities and needs current and future budgets must fulfill.
Nov. 20, 2023 AFIMSC leads new ACE and military pilot training mission beddown project The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is leading a more than $500 million facilities construction project to facilitate expeditionary skills training and military pilot training at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Ark.
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.
Aug. 17, 2023 DoD releases actions to transform climate, enhance prevention of harmful behaviors at military service academies In a memo to DoD senior leaders, SecDef Austin noted that while the military service academies are dominant in many domains, they have far more work to do to halt sexual assault and harassment.
Aug. 16, 2023 DAF opens public comment period for Support of Military Families basing-decision scorecard updates The Department of the Air Force opened a public comment period regarding recent updates to the background and methodology for Support of Military Families scorecards for spouse licensure portability and dependent education surrounding department bases.