WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Defense Health Agency announced 15 military hospitals got an "A" rating in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Fall 2024 assessment. This grade reflects the DHA's ongoing dedication to transparency and to providing high-quality, safe care to service members and their families. 81st Medical Group, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi 673d Medical Group, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Alexander T. Augu  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is fielding the Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control platform at five more bases after three years of successful initial testing here. AFIMSC awarded a $20 million contract to Simplesense, Inc., Nov. 18 to provide the low-rate initial production and install. The installations sla  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center issued the following news: By Emily Mifsud, AFIMSC Public Affairs TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FLA - The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is fielding the Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control platform at five more bases after three years of successful initial testing here. AFIMSC awarded a $20 million contract to Simplesense, Inc., Nov. 18 to provide the low-rate i  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin, along with other senior leaders, shared details Nov. 13 about the service's new "One Force Design," including an overview of future operating concepts to generate increased lethality and effective combat power in contested environments. "Permissive environments have become the exception rather than the rule," Allvi  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 23 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Marisa Alia-Novobilski, Air Force Materiel Command The Air Force Materiel Command held an AcqDemo Ask-Me-Anything, Nov. 20, providing greater insight to the upcoming Acquisition Demonstration Project expansion slated for June 2025. Senior leader panelists from across the command answered questions related to the upcoming change, which will impact 25,000 civilian employees comma  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- The Department of the Air Force identified Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, as the sole candidate location to host the headquarters for the new Air Force Information Dominance Systems Center. The Air Force announced the creation of AFIDSC within Air Force Materiel Command as part of the service's Great Power Competition initiative to strengthen and e  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Cynthia Griggs, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Master Sgt. Jason Audette, an air traffic controller with the 75th Operations Support Squadron, has faced many stressful challenges in both his childhood and his 15-year Air Force career learning the importance of mental fitness and resilience. So, when the airfield operations community launched the A  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 18 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By C. Todd Lopez, DOD News The Defense Department today released the results of its departmentwide fiscal year 2024 financial audit, the seventh such audit since 2018. For this most-recent effort, the department's inspector general provided an overall "disclaimer of opinion" on DOD financial statements, which means the department has not yet achieved a clean audit, said Mike McCor  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Nov. 23 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- In a bracing speech to Air Force Academy cadets who are the service's future leaders, Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, Nov. 12, did not mince words about the qualities necessary for strong leadership and why capable, insightful, moral leaders are more essential than ever in defense of the nation. "I have been working for the last three a  more