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Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System for the monitoring, control, and prevention of the…

WASHINGTON - A Defense Department proposal submitted to Congress on June 10 would create what Pentagon officials called a "blended defined benefit and defined…

What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) makes significant investments in space capabilities to meet the nation’s security, economic, and logistical needs. DOD’s space programs—now led by the U.S. Space Force—continue to…

March 21, 2024 “If DoD has more tools to cover up its mistakes, then I think it becomes even more tempting to low ball the costs and the risks of a new program. This looks to me like the perfect recipe for…

Tech startup Anduril Industries has set out to challenge the traditional defense majors and break into the notoriously closed world of top-level defense contracting. Last year Anduril made headlines with a massive $1.5 billion Series E;…

March 21, 2024 “The IG report indicated that lack of access to healthcare in the INDOPACOM region is having a serious and negative impact on the lives of service members and DoD civilians, causing many to…

March 19, 2024 “27 percent of the drugs on the Food and Drug Administration’s Essential Medicines List were categorized by the Defense Logistics Agency as “Very High Risk”.”  Text of Letter (PDF) | DoD Report…

With humility and pride, this month I begin my tenure as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report. Since the launch of the MSMR in 1995, there have been three prior editors-in-chief. For the past five months,…

This report describes ivermectin prescription fill rates among U.S. active component service members over time during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Information about the unsubstantiated benefits of ivermectin for…

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the…

We read with great interest the “Update: Cold Weather Injuries Among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forced, July 2018-June 2023.”1 While the update provides valuable insight into the relative number of…

The Recruit Assessment Program is a cross-sectional, baseline survey of U.S. Marine recruits administered at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. This report presents RAP study procedures and survey content that was…

The Recruit Assessment Program is a cross-sectional, baseline survey of U.S. Marine recruits administered at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. This report presents RAP study procedures and survey content that was…

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the…

This Surveillance Snapshot provides the first summary of the demographic composition of active component Space Force service members, as of November 2023. This Snapshot is intended to inform future MSMR illness and injury…

Washington, DC, March 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Selective Service acting Director Joel C. Spangenberg and AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the White House to codify their partnership on…

March 01, 2024 The Department of Defense has a responsibility to protect service…

Fast Facts Before we issue reports, we send them to the agencies we've audited for review and comment. For reports containing sensitive or classified information, we also ask the agency to let us know what can or…

February 26, 2024 Rampant Defense Consolidation Risks Innovation, Supply Chains, and National Security  Letter Text (PDF) Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate…

Fast Facts The U.S. military depends on systems of ultra high frequency ("narrowband") satellites for secure communications. The newest system provides cell-phone-like voice and data service to military users and…

What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) is making changes to its space-related processes and organization that will present both opportunities and challenges to the way it acquires its space systems. GAO has reported over…

What GAO Found Space-based capabilities—such as GPS—are fundamental to U.S. defense, national security, and civilian activities. GAO has reported that the Department of Defense (DOD) has faced long-standing challenges in acquiring…

What GAO Found Department of Defense (DOD) strategies emphasize that space is a contested environment with increasing threats to satellites. Thus, space situational awareness (SSA)—the foundational knowledge and characterization…

What GAO Found Congress provided the Department of Defense (DOD) at least 26 authorities related to budgeting and financial management that allowed DOD flexibility in its use of funds to support research and development (R&D),…

New York, NY, Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CTERA, the leader in distributed cloud file services, today announced its successful recertification on the U.S. Department of Defense Information Network Approved Product List (DoDIN…

History provides no one solution for how the Army should respond to pandemics. Each pandemic presents different risks. During the 20th and 21st centuries, the U.S. Army has continued operations throughout different pandemics,…

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the…

The authors describe the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officer professional military education (PME) system, review how it operates, compare it with civilian educational institutions, analyze effects of possible changes, and identify…

The Defense Department is partnering with educators and guidance counselors at one of New York City's largest high schools to help students plan for their future, regardless of whether…

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking (in my own capacity) before the Council for Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency Public Affairs Officers (CIGIE-PAO) task force about branding. The invitation came by way of a…

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the…

Common respiratory viruses are associated with substantial morbidity within the Military Health System. In 2022 more than 250,000 medical encounters were recorded within the MHS for respiratory illness among active component…

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System to monitor, control, and prevent the occurrence and…

This month we’ll be highlighting articles about crowdsourcing. These are the programs that use a variety of online mechanisms to get ideas, services, solutions, and products by asking a large, diverse crowd to contribute their…

NORAD’s Santa Tracker is available for download again! Here are five things I learned from the magical NORAD Tracks Santa app to keep my nieces, nephews and neighborhood children entertained this holiday season, even if I don’t…

We’re switching our style up this week in salute to our military friends across the Department of Defense. Faithful readers of DigitalGov know that each Thursday we profile an awesome app from the USA.gov Federal Mobile Apps…

Technology has opened new pathways for delivering health care, including mental health services. The National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), part of the Department of Defense, offers multiple apps that address health…

Someone has a problem they are trying to solve. They pull out their mobile device and find a solution. They move onto something else. That’s a mobile moment. Organizations are living and dying by their mobile moments, and a few…

You may not know it, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has changed your life. There’s the Internet, for starters. And if that isn’t enough, the agency also has played a pivotal role in shaping GPS, stealth…

Summary: Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science. This week marks the 8th annual Open Access Week, when individuals and organizations around the…

On May 9, we took a big step toward creating a bug bounty program for our agency by issuing an award to HackerOne for a Software-as-a-Service bug-reporting platform. The TTS Bug Bounty will be a security initiative to pay people for…

This is part of an ongoing series highlighting the innovations and research happening at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Wounded warriors who dream of returning to playing hockey, climbing mountains or…

We will share how the Department of Defense (DoD) moved to DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery by leveraging Kubernetes and Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant containers. It demonstrates how 37 weapon,…

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System. The DRSi collects reports on over 70 different…

Reducing preventable injury and illness enhances the readiness of the Armed Forces, as illnesses and injuries degrade service member readiness and can hinder mission accomplishment. Since 2012, the MSMR has used a…

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and characteristics of ambulatory health care visits in 2022 of active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Ambulatory visits by U.S.…

With approximately 40,000 active duty service members, the U.S. Coast Guard is by far the smallest of the military branches and is the only branch outside the Department of Defense. Since 2016, missing data have precluded…

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalization among active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps during calendar year 2022. Summaries are based on…

Criteria for Publication Appropriateness MSMR is dedicated to reporting evidence-based estimates of the incidence, distribution, impact, or trends of illness and injuries among members of the United States Armed Forces and…

During deployed military operations, initial medical care is provided by military medical personnel stationed within the operational theater, but some injuries and illnesses require medical care outside the theater of…