GAO found that the service hasn't established a process to accurately determine its personnel needs and doesn't have a workforce plan to guide future growth.Β
U.S. Army Cpt. Webb, from the 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, reenlists on Fort Bragg, NC, April 4, 2025. Webb reenlisted for another terms in front of his family and fellow officers.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cole Paulson)
DISA says that the Enclave contract is "the only viable contracting alternative" given the compressed timeline for migrating combatant commands to DoDNet.
Express Scripts, the contractor that manages the TRICARE pharmacy program, also operates its own mail-order pharmacies that participate in the network.
"It's impossible to assess any safeguards that may exist in your companyβs agreement with DoD without seeing the full contract," Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a βliar and a traitorβ over recordings that show the House Republican leader β despite his denials β placing responsibility on former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 insurrection and saying he should resign. McCarthy initially had denied a New York Times report last week that detailed his phone conversations with House Republican colleagues shortly after the riot that he thought Trump should resign. But in an audio first posted Thursday by The Times, McCarthy is heard making the comments he denied making. Asked Sunday, April 24, 2022 about her reaction, Warren calls that βoutrageous." (Tom Williams, Pool via AP)
The initiative, first teased in April, has garnered nationwide interest β DoD said it received more than 70,000 inquiries from prospective candidates.
FILE - This April 19, 2019 file photo shows a sign for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Washington. The Biden administrationβs nominee for top Pentagon policy adviser was met with sharp criticism from Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, including accusations that he has been too partisan to be confirmed for the job. Colin Kahl, who served as national security adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration, faced repeated questions on his previous support for the Iran nuclear deal and how he would approach that issue now. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
βPeople need to get ahead of it. If you start to ask for a waiver starting in 2027, it's going to be a painful process for everyone,β Michael Cadenazzi said.
Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Rombold (left), an observer coach at Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, shows Spc. William Ritter (right), a military policeman with 287th Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Riley, Kansas, how to properly set up the system to operate the RQ-11 Raven, a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), during Allied Spirit VIII at Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018. Roughly 4,100 troops from 10 nations are participating in Allied Spirit VIII, a multinational training exercise designed to test participants' readiness and capabilities.
A provision from the 2025 NDAA prohibits DoD from working with contractors that retain consultants representing certain Chinese companies blacklisted by DoD.
βWe urge Congress to reject any further attempts to prohibit public companies from making decisions that are in their best long-term interests,β industry said.
FILE - U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cody Brown, right, with the 436th Aerial Port Squadron, checks pallets of 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The U.S. is sending another $400 million to Ukraine, pushing needed ammunition and generators to Ukraine from its own stockpiles, which will allow the aid to get to Ukraine faster than if the Pentagon procured the weapons from industry., getting needed heat and additional air defenses to Kyiv as winter sets in. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)