John Nowell

women in the military, online harassment, DoD

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

Social media and text messaging are now a way of life for people in the military — they use the services to keep in contact with friends, for recruiting,…

Defense

(DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

DoD mulls how to return to office, promises telework is here to stay

Defense

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Continuing resolution, COVID causing personnel issues for military services

Defense

(Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Carla Ocampo/U.S. Navy via AP)

Navy Ready Reserve still has some vaccine holdouts as omicron rages

Navy

U.S. Navy

Navy has fewer vaccinated sailors than previously reported, but still over 97%

Navy

(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

FILE - In this May 19, 2021, file photo, a licensed practical nurse draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Starting Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration convenes its independent advisers for the first stage in the process of deciding whether extra shots of Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines should be dispensed and, if so, who should get them and when. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

DoD civilians will be suspended without pay and then fired if they do not get vaccinated

Defense

An Air Force member takes a selfie while getting her shot of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a military base in Lima, Peru, Monday, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Punishments start for troops who refuse vaccines

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Missing military tenant bill of rights provisions to be finished next month

Defense

Navy trying to better diversity through STEM investments, recruiting changes, scholarships

Defense

DISA’s first-ever production OTA eliminated $300M in future costs

DoD Reporter's Notebook

190828-N-UY653-0129rBOSTON (Aug. 28, 2019) Chief petty officer selects, Sailors who have been selected for the paygrade of E-7, participate in a mast climbing evolution during Chief Heritage week aboard the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, USS Constitution. During the selectees week spent aboard Constitution, Sailors teach them a variety of time-honored maritime evolutions while living and working aboard the ship. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/Released)

After a year of high retention, the Navy is thinking about force balance

Navy

DISA working on improvements to telework, ensuring it’s here to stay

DISA officials say the workscape will never look the same again now that DoD has seen what telework can do.

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Among DoD leadership, eyes are now wide open to value of telework

Defense officials say COVID-19 “shattered the myth” that employees can’t be productive while teleworking. In many cases, they’re more productive than ever.

DoD Reporter's Notebook

In this April 26, 2017 photo U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Clinton Benson, of Stanton, Mich., right, speaks to a class, including U.S. Navy Ensign Megan Stevenson, of Raymond, Maine, center left, at the Naval Submarine School, in Groton, Conn. The Navy began bringing female officers on board submarines in 2010, followed by enlisted female sailors five years later. Their retention rates are on par with those of men, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Sea services look for ways to tailor training to individual service members

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The Navy, Marines and Coast Guard are looking for new ways to apply technology to their training curricula, but only where it makes sense to do so.