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A decade after its creation, DHA thinks it has building blocks in place for an integrated military health system

After a decade of constant change, DHA’s new director says it’s time to focus on delivering a truly integrated military health system.

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U.S. Navy/MC1 Byron C. LinderSOUTH PACIFIC (July 9, 2017) Operations Specialist 1st Class Charles Hammond, from Kansas City, Missouri, monitors tracks aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) during an air defense exercise comprised of Sterett, amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20), amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Royal Australian Navy frigate helicopter HMAS Ballarat (FFH 155), Royal Australian Navy guided missile frigate HMAS Darwin (FFG 04), and Royal Australian Navy frigate helicopter HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156) as part of Talisman Saber 17. Sterett, part of a combined U.S.-Australia-New Zealand expeditionary strike group (ESG), is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase proficiencies defending the ESG against blue-water threats so amphibious forces can launch Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial U.S.-Australia bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australia alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Byron C. Linder/Released)170709-N-ZW825-895

Navy charts massive transformation in shipboard IT as commercial 5G, satellite links join the fleet

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Secret-level version of Microsoft 365 rolls out to top Pentagon offices this month

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 10, 2009) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Ryan Allshouse uses the intrusion detection system to monitor unclassified network activity from the automated data processing workspace aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). IDS is part of the integrated shipboard network system and serves as an important computer network defense enabler protecting the unclassified shipboard network from cyber attack.  (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released)

Navy says it’s achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to ‘fix our computers’

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DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system

The Pentagon’s decades-old planning and budgeting process doesn’t have a lot of fans – least of all the people who work within it every day. The…

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Pentagon has a new plan for ‘customer-led’ IT service delivery in OSD offices

The new organization that’s now leading technology strategy for the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s 19,000 employees thinks it has a workable plan…

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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 officials believe its future benefits extend far beyond replacement of legacy systems

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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’

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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

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

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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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