March 25, 2014, JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) - Eligible active duty officers and Department of the Air Force appropriated fund civilian employees can apply beginning in March for intermediate and senior developmental education opportunities, Air Force Personnel Center officials said March 24. According to Maj. Yulanda Bogany, AFPC officer developmental … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
VA Removes Annual Income Reporting Requirement
March 25, 2014, WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is eliminating the annual requirement for most Veterans enrolled in VA’s health care system to report income information beginning in March 2014. Instead, VA will automatically match income information obtained from the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration. “Eliminating … [Read more...]
Army Outlines Network Modernization Priorities
WASHINGTON (March 24, 2014) - The Army chief information officer/G-6 outlined priorities for network modernization as the Army plans for Force 2025. "The Army continues to focus on building IT capacity and increasing bandwidth speed by a thousand times," said Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, who became the CIO/G-6 in December 2013. "We are greatly improving operations and training … [Read more...]
Navy Prepares Black Box Locator for MH370 Search
March 24, 2014, PHILIPPINE SEA (NNS) - The U.S. Navy is continuing efforts to search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. As a precautionary measure in case a debris field is located, U.S. Pacific Command has ordered U.S. Pacific Fleet to move a black box locator into the region, March 24. If a debris field is confirmed, The Navy's Towed Pinger Locator 25 will add a … [Read more...]
Air and Missile Defense to Get Smarter Software
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 24, 2014) - When a missile is launched against an enemy target, it would be nice to have a lot of good information about that target. But when "decision makers push the fire button, they may have very little data, and sometimes not timely enough data," said Col. Rob Rasch Jr., project manager, Integrated Air and Missile Defense Project … [Read more...]