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News

Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper is visiting Hawaii, Palau and Guam where he'll explain the U.S. vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific and honor the World War II generation that made peace possible in the region.
The Sentinel Landscape highlights the work done to strengthen military readiness and protect the environment through a series of partnerships between federal, state and local governments and nongovernmental organizations.
The Defense Innovation Unit is bringing together artificial intelligence technology and the Defense Department's medical data to teach computers how to identify cancers and other medical irregularities.
The Defense Department is crowdsourcing to find better ways to promote diversity and inclusion.

Features

Features

The COVID-19 pandemic has strengthened the Norfolk Naval Shipyard's ongoing commitment to innovation as it seeks new ways to keep personnel safe. The newest invention to make its way through the gates of NNSY is NanoSeptic technology.
Working around the clock, airman dorm leaders, or ADLs, at Osan Air Base, South Korea, strive to give new members the warmest welcome and meet essential needs during their two-week quarantine phase.
Travis Air Force Base in California has a new isolated containment chamber that can safely transport infectious disease patients — including those with novel coronavirus — on board an aircraft.
Before he was a legend, Arnold Palmer stepped away from Wake Forest College, which he was attending on a golf scholarship, to join the Coast Guard.

Spotlights

Spotlights

The Defense Department is working closely with the Department of Health and Human Services and the State Department to provide support in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.
The National Defense Strategy provides a clear road map for the Department of Defense to meet the challenges posed by a re-emergence of long-term strategic competition with China and Russia. The National Defense Strategy acknowledges an increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt challenges to the free and open international order.
Using the resources of the federal government and the U.S. private sector, Operation Warp Speed will accelerate the testing, supply, development, and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to counter COVID-19 by January 2021.
The Global Positioning System signal and service need to be protected based on the importance of GPS to national security, civil services and the economic benefits to the nation.

Inside DOD

Inside DOD

Political campaigns are in high gear. If you’re a service member or DOD civilian employee, here are the guidelines on how to conduct yourself during this time.
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago, bringing an end to World War II and making the Enola Gay one of the most famous B-29s in history.
Kansas Army National Guard soldiers help save a girl who appeared to be considering taking her own life.
A small unit of U.S. airmen continues a 65-year-old tradition of monitoring seismic activity in the Australian outback to maintain nuclear deterrence and help warn others of imminent natural disasters.