Pentagon Press Secretary U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder conducts a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2024. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza) JANUARY 31, 2024 - Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is expected to call the families of three soldiers who were killed over the weekend in an attack by an … [Read more...]
Archives for 2024
Challenges, Solutions to Recruiting All-Volunteer Force
JANUARY 31, 2024 - Over the last 15 years, the recruiting rate of the all-volunteer force has been declining, said Stephanie Miller, deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy. Those with an interest in serving and qualification rates are hovering near all-time lows, she said yesterday at the Institute for Defense Analysis in Alexandria, … [Read more...]
NETCOM Continues Modernizing Data Migration Efforts
JANUARY 30, 2024 — Major commands Army-wide have begun migrating their organizational file shares from on-prem to SharePoint Online. To date, the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) has received 32 file server migration registrations and 52 file share migration registrations, which include 384,544 GB of data scheduled to migrate. The team has begun reaching … [Read more...]
CDAO Launches First DoD AI Bias Bounty
JANUARY 30, 2024 - The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) launched the first of two AI Bias Bounty exercises. Bias bounties are new crowdsourced efforts to help detect bias in AI systems. The CDAO is sponsoring two exercises: the first exercise is open to the public today, and a second exercise will soon follow. The CDAO … [Read more...]
Electric Aircraft Carries Out Casualty Evacuation
JANUARY 30, 2024 - The BETA Technologies ALIA team waited and watched as an HH-60W Jolly Green II dropped in fast to the clearing beside them deep within the Eglin range Jan. 11, 2023. As soon as it touched down, Air Force special mission aviators were out the helicopter’s side door carrying a casualty on a stretcher. The BETA team and the SMEs met in the middle of an … [Read more...]