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  • DOD releases overseas stop movement order in response to COVID-19

    Building upon previously enacted movement restrictions governing foreign travel, permanent change of station moves, temporary duty and personal leave, this stop movement order will also impact exercises, deployments, redeployments and other global force management activities. Approximately 90,000 Service Members slated to deploy or redeploy over the next 60 days will likely be impacted by this stop movement order.
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    DOD poised to provide masks, ventilators, labs for coronavirus fight

    The Defense Department will make available up to 5 million respirator masks and other personal protective equipment from its strategic reserves to the Department of Health and Human Services for distribution, DOD Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said during a news conference at the Pentagon March 18, adding that the first million masks would be made available immediately.
  • 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.

    DOD issues flexible instructions on response to Coronavirus

    The Department of Defense issued memos responding to the need for operations to continue during the outbreak. The DOD documents build on messages from the Office of Personnel Management issued March 7.
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  • Rich Aldridge (center), program executive officer for Air Force Program Executive Office-Business and Enterprise Systems, hosted a PEO Cross-Service Summit at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex, Alabama, Jan. 16, 2019. The summit brings together PEOs from across several DOD agencies to discuss and share lessons learned and common challenges and identify best practices to support their related organizational missions and joint ventures. The summits are held quarterly and the locations rotate amongst the agencies. (Courtesy photo)

    DOD PEOs meet at Maxwell to discuss challenges, share innovations

    Program executive officers from several Department of Defense agencies met at the Air Force Program Executive Office-Business and Enterprise Systems headquarters here recently to share information on current and emerging information technology solutions and updates to acquisition processes and policies. The quarterly PEO Cross-Service Summit, held

  • Air Force invites innovative solutions in AFWERX Fusion Challenge

    The Air Force seeks innovative Airmen, entrepreneurs, industry experts, engineers and academics to participate in the AFWERX Fusion Challenge to enhance security of fixed, temporary and mobile assets.
  • Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein speaks about the essential role Airmen play in space superiority, during the 34th Space Symposium April 17, 2018, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. During his remarks Goldfein emphasized that each Airman, regardless of specialty, should understand the business of space superiority. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dennis Hoffman)

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Goldfein: Every Airman, beyond the space specialty, must understand the business of space superiority

    Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David L. Goldfein emphasized the essential role Airmen have when it comes to space superiority during the 34th Space Symposium April 17, 2018, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • Medical instruments sit ready for a ventral hernia repair with the da Vinci Xi robotic surgery system, March 28, 2017, on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. This was the first robotic surgery in the Air Force. The robotic system enhances surgeon’s mobility and range of motion. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenay Randolph)

    Keesler MDG Airmen perform first robotic surgery in AF

    Members of the 81st Surgical Operations Squadron performed the Air Force’s first robotic surgery at the Keesler Medical Center here March 28. Maj. Lauren Buck, 81st MSGS general surgeon, and her surgical team performed a robotic ventral hernia repair. Buck has experience with the da Vinci Si model, but this was a little different because it is a
  • Blended Retirement System

    Blended retirement system training now available

    Online training designed to educate Airmen about the new Blended Retirement System, the Defense Department system with changes on the current military retirement system, is now available via Joint Knowledge Online course number P-US1330. The course is also available to those without a Common Access Card -- to include family members -- via an alternate website.
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