Dec. 14, 2020 Acting Defense Secretary Receives COVID-19 Vaccine Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dec. 14, 2020 Officials Provide Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution DOD, Operation Warp Speed and Department of Health and Human Services officials provided an update on COVID-19 vaccine distribution and discussed when all Americans might have access to the vaccine.
Dec. 14, 2020 Scobee highlights Reserve contributions, future priorities Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, highlighted the contributions of the more than 70,000 Reserve Citizen Airmen during an extremely busy 2020 and shared the Air Force Reserve future priorities during the Reserve Forces Policy Board’s
Dec. 12, 2020 Operation Warp Speed Official: First COVID-19 Vaccines to Arrive Monday The nation's first vaccines for the COVID-19 virus will be distributed Monday, following the emergency-use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna said.
Dec. 11, 2020 Air Force, DOD Leaders Discuss Cutting-Edge Innovations Leaders from the Defense Department's Defense Innovation Unit and the Air Force spoke about DIU and AFWERX collaborative projects.
Dec. 11, 2020 First Direct Enlistees Graduate From Basic Training The first seven people to enlist directly into the U.S. Space Force have graduated from basic military training.
Dec. 11, 2020 Pro Rata Vaccine Distribution is Fair, Equitable While COVID-19 vaccines roll out in limited supply, distribution is determined in direct proportion to the nation's adult population 18 years and older.
Dec. 11, 2020 Around the Air Force: Fitness Assessment Changes, AFWERX Accelerate Event and DoD Housing surveys This week’s look around the Air Force highlights changes to the Air Force Fitness Assessment timeline along with the removal of the waist measurement requirement, the continuing innovation of AFWERX, and explains the annual Defense Department housing surveys are now available. (Produced by Staff
Dec. 10, 2020 Command notifies Reserve Citizen Airmen of Unclassified Information changes The Defense Department’s new Controlled Unclassified Information program stood up in July 2020 with the release of DoD Instruction 5200.48, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The program ensures standardized identification, safeguarding, transmission, storage, dissemination, destruction and
Dec. 10, 2020 Department of the Air Force releases fiscal year 2021 Selective Retention Bonus program The program is designed to improve the retention of experienced Airmen and Space Professionals in stressed career fields or those with high training costs.