OCTOBER 26, 2020 - The Army has multiple enterprise financial management IT systems, some decades old, that account for the majority of the service's financial, acquisition, and logistic transactions. These systems communicate transactions in a variety of ways through a complex architecture, but that communication is far from perfect. When a financial system communicates … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2020
Navy’s First Interventional Radiologist Moving Vision of Care Forward
OCTOBER 24, 2020 - “Interventional radiology” is a term that personnel and patients will soon be using frequently at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune. “I think for a lot of people, even within the medical and surgical field, a lot of staff members have no idea what Interventional radiology is, or what it is capable of,” said U.S. Navy Commander David Besachio. Besachio, … [Read more...]
Ensuring Key Technologies Drive the Joint Warfighting Concept
OCTOBER 23, 2020 - To achieve our National Defense Strategy goals, the Defense Department must increase the pace by which critical technologies are integrated into the force. According to officials with the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Advanced Capabilities) and Joint Staff, Joint Force Integration Cell, the Deputy Director for Engineering, in the Office of the … [Read more...]
‘SWAT Team of Nerds’ Tackles Tough Tech Challenges
OCTOBER 23, 2020 - The Defense Digital Service is a team of 82 engineers, data scientists and computer scientists, working on some of the hardest problems in the Defense Department. Brett Goldstein, DDS director, said they're a "swat team of nerds." He spoke remotely today to the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. A big advantage of DDS, he said, is … [Read more...]
Air Force Begins Rollout of High-Tech EOD Robots
OCTOBER 23, 2020 - The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Readiness Directorate made its first delivery of the new medium-size explosive ordnance disposal robot to the field Oct. 15, to Tyndall Air Force Base. Over the next 16-18 months, AFCEC will deliver 333 high-tech robots to every EOD flight Air Force-wide, said Master Sgt. Justin Frewin, AFCEC EOD equipment program … [Read more...]