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A decade after its inception, the Army now has one system for personnel and pay

The long-awaited "go-live" of (IPPS-A) marks the first time the active Army, the Army National Guard and Army Reserve have used a single system for all of their pay and personnel functions.

Defense

New campaign asks service members to share stories to push sexual assault reforms farther

Defense

Military leaders worry about 'good order and discipline' with proposed changes to military law

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Second stage of Chinese telecom ban producing unintended consequences

Army

14 Fort Hood soldiers fired, suspended over violence at base

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon reports $5B in improper payments to civilian workforce

Army

Army will now assume soldiers are missing and not AWOL after multiple deaths this summer

FILE- In this April 23, 2020, file photo a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is shown in San Antonio. Compounding the hardships of coronavirus, some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks. On Tuesday, June 9, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the Health and Human Services inspector general's office to issue a warning to nursing homes and assisted living facilities that such practices are “improper and unlawful.” (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal Newscast

PRAC details how it plans to monitor coronavirus stimulus funds

Ryan McCarthy

Army

Army is taking limited steps to counter racial divisiveness

USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, ship

Defense

Navy testing entire carrier's crew for coronavirus after more diagnoses

Staff inspect medical equipments at an emergency hospital set up amid the new coronavirus outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 23, 2020. Indonesia has changed towers built to house athletes in the 2018 Asian Games to emergency hospitals with a 3,000-bed capacity in the country's hard-hit capital, where new patients have surged in the past week. (Hafidz Mubarak A/Pool Photo via AP)

Federal Newscast

Agencies get more hiring flexibilities to help with coronavirus response

Fort Wainwright, Ft. Wainwright, military base, army, Alaska

Army

Army creating long-term plan to fix housing issues

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Army

Army's new assessment of battalion commanders candidates is underway

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Defense

Military considering dropping some housing contractors after botched mold cleanup

Pfc. Michael Roberts and Pvt. Nicholas Brown, cavalry scouts for Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 82nd Cavalry Regiment navigate rough eastern Washington terrain on foot while conducting dismounted zone reconnaissance training at the Yakima Training Center in Yakima, Wash., June 25, 2019. The training is part of a large-scale exercise known as eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC), which focuses on improving individual and team skillsets, decision making, equipment familiarization, and deployment readiness. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Jennifer Lena, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

Army

Army's new personnel strategy will be reliant on data to make change

Paul Pardew, Tom Temin, Federal Drive, Army

Tom Temin Commentary

Revolution in the Army?

A student from the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School practices setting a paiute deadfall trap for small game during the survival phase of Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape Level-C training (SERE) at Camp Mackall, N.C., Feb. 28, 2019. Commanders are making big changes to the grueling course that soldiers must pass to join the elite Special Forces. The goal is to meet evolving national security threats and to shift from a culture that weeds out struggling soldiers to one that trains them to do better.(Ken Kassens/U.S. Army via AP)

Army

Army debuts new system to pick commanders amid focus on talent management

Federal Employee Unions

Federal Newscast

OPM examining how feds pay union dues after Supreme Court ruling

In this Jan. 8, 2019, photo, U.S Army Staff Sgt. Idis Arroyo,left, carries weights while training to serve as an instructor in the new Army combat fitness test at Fort Bragg, N.C. The new test is designed to be a more accurate test of combat readiness than the current requirements. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Army

National Guard testing new Army fitness exam, getting soldiers ready for year-round deployments

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Army

Army's new enlisted promotion system puts emphasis on merit

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Federal Newscast

New bill to help temporary federal workers save for retirement

McConville

Army

McConville nomination hearing shows how he will bring the Army into the future

Jennifer Wexton, Scott Surovell

Federal Newscast

New bill to provide financial help to feds during government shutdowns