OCTOBER 5, 2020 - Army senior leaders announced plans to discontinue both the Asymmetric Warfare Group and Rapid Equipping Force, as the service shifts funding and resources from counter-insurgency operations to large-scale combat across multiple domains. For more than 14 years, the AWG and REF have provided Soldiers with rapid materiel solutions and operational advisory … [Read more...]
Job Seekers Beware: Employment Scams on the Rise
OCTOBER 5, 2020 - At any given time, there may be as many scams posted online as there are actual job openings. The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command’s Major Cybercrime Unit is warning the Army community about employment scams being on the rise. An employment scam is any attempt to defraud job seekers through the use of deception with the intention of personal or … [Read more...]
Army Warns of New Facebook Interface
OCTOBER 5, 2020 - The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command’s Major Cybercrime Unit recommends checking your user privacy and security settings due to a newly released interface for Facebook. This month, Facebook users will stop seeing the ‘classic’ version, the one with the blue navigation bar at the top, on the widely used interface. Facebook plans to switch from the … [Read more...]
Army, Air Force Form Partnership, Lay Foundation
OCTOBER 2, 2020 - Unity among military branches and a combined, all-domain effort could be the difference in winning large-scale, multi-domain battles the Army expects to fight in the future. To help achieve that goal, the Army and Air Force signed a two-year collaboration agreement in the development of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, which will … [Read more...]
Military Pay Mission Transfers Back to Army
OCTOBER 2, 2020 - The U.S. Army is working to modernize its military pay systems to provide for a more ready and lethal force that is focused on mission accomplishment and not just on paycheck issues. In preparation for that future, the U.S. Army Financial Management Command assumed the Army’s military pay mission from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service on Oct. … [Read more...]