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Despite initial challenges, DoD on track to finish deployment of new EHR by next year

MHS Genesis, DoD’s new EHR, is now live at 75% of DoD’s clinics and hospitals, with 160,000 users and 6.1 million beneficiaries in the system. But…

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Air Force finds ways to bake cybersecurity into weapons systems, and bolt it on where necessary

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How DoD’s own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the ‘valley of death’

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Fixing DoD’s broken budgeting system a big reform topic for 2023

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Army launches several new initiatives to incorporate small firms’ technologies into its systems

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To institutionalize DevSecOps, Navy’s Black Pearl aims to ‘commoditize the boring stuff’

On this week’s edition of On DoD: When the Navy set out to simplifying its journey to modern software development, officials decided to not reinvent the…

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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2019 file photo, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) moors at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London, Conn.  The Navy is proposing construction cutbacks and accelerated ship retirements that would delay, or sink, the Navy’s goal of a larger fleet — and potentially hurt shipyards, according to an initial proposal.    The proposal would shrink the size of the fleet from today’s level of 293 ships to 287 ships, a far cry from the official goal of 355 ships established in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.  (Sean D. Elliot/The Day via AP, File)

Navy’s data-driven approach to sustainment finds huge room for improvement in ship maintenance

There are a lot of reasons behind maintenance delays in the Navy’s shipyards. But one, only recently uncovered, is that most of the supplies artisans need…

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Four years into DoD financial audits, IG says progress has stalled

The OIG says leadership is needed to get DoD’s financial improvement program back on track. And there’s reason for optimism on that front, now that several key, formerly-vacant positions are now filled.

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One National Guard unit’s idea to improve efficiency: spend less time filling out forms

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Nowhere safe to hide: What online harassment is doing to service members and the military

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Departing DoD software boss says success or failure boils down to leadership

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In this Jan. 19, 2019, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the entrance to Tank 19 at the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is seen. The Navy is scrambling to contain what one lawmaker has called a

The logistics of fuel storage in INDOPACOM and the military’s moving contract

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DoD’s Danielle Metz on how the multibillion dollar JWCC cloud contract will actually work

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Army’s DEVCOM takes ‘future of work’ from concept to reality

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(Army courtesy photo)To help make moving as stress-free as possible, Move.mil has partnered with Military OneSource to house all the moving support you need, all in one place. Starting October 4, 2021, moving customers are invited to visit the Moving & Housing section of MilitaryOneSource.mil to find web pages covering a wide range of information about everything from shipping household goods to settling into a new duty station. (Courtesy Photo)

Military’s new household goods contractor plans tech infusion to ‘transform’ moving process

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Amid explosion in DoD’s use of OTAs, myths abound about how and whether to use them

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DoD’s new R&D chief prioritizes moving prototypes to real-world applications

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New Navy approach to supply chain elevates data-driven decisions to C-suite

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Why DoD’s fighting force is ‘ever shrinking’ despite robust budgets

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Why the fighting force is ‘ever shrinking’ despite robust Defense budgets

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