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A New Prescription for the U.S. Department of Defense's Medical Logistics: EDS-Developed System Helps Get Medical Supplies to the Field-Fast: Medical logistics - the purchase and delivery of supplies and equipment, along with related facilities management - plays a crucial role for any health care organization. The DOD looks to its Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support DMLSS program for a logistics strategy that meets MHS' needs - and thus improves...; Tags: Supply chain, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Electronic Data Systems Corp., logistics, U.S. Department of Defense, medical supplies, health care, RAD, application development; Case studies
GeoExchange Saving Millions at Fort Polk, Louisiana: The U.S. Army signed the Department of Defense's (DOD's) largest energy savings performance contract ESPC to date to convert the heating and forced cooling systems of 4,003 military family housing units at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, in Louisiana, to GeoExchange. Renovation of Fort Polk turned out to...; Tags: Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, GeoExchange, Louisiana, U.S. Department of Defense, HVAC; Case studies
Improving Health Care Options for the Nation's Over-65 Military Retirees: The Department of Defense DoD is committed to providing comprehensive health care for the men and women who serve their country. But its health care system, one of the nation's largest, falls short of this goal for military retirees once they reach age 65 and become dual-eligible-eligible for both DoD...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, RAND Corp., U.S. Department of Defense, health care, Medicare, women; White papers
Business Enterprise Priority: This is a template for business enterprise priority. This tool also shows a chart for few business aspects like Business Process Management BPM.; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, U.S. Department of Defense, BPM, business process, tool; Tools & templates 2006-09-25
DOD's New Heat-Beam Weapon - How to Get Rid of Those Pesky Neighborhood Kids: The US Department of Defense just announced that its new "Heat-Beam," non-lethal weapon will be available for use as early as 2010. Apparently, this weapon can raise skin temperature to over 130 degrees from a distance of almost two football fields. The evil-doer that is subjected to the...; Tags: U.S. Department of Defense; Blog posts 2007-01-27

Potential Spectrum Interference Associated With Military Land Mobile Radios: To address homeland defense needs and comply with government direction that agencies use the electromagnetic spectrum more efficiently, the Department of Defense DOD is deploying new Land Mobile Radios to military installations across the country. The new Land Mobile Radios operate in the same frequency range of 380 Megahertz MHz...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, homeland defense, radio, agency, mobile; White papers 2005-12-01
DoD Transportation Command Creates Own Fourth-Party Logistics Provider: The U.S. center of operations for the Central command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center CDDOC is Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. It serves as a direct channel between the combatant commander and supply sources in the U.S. so all parties know exactly what is happening in the area of...; Tags: Channel management, Keller International Publishing, U.S., supply chain, supplier, Web; White papers 2005-12-01
Human Capital: Observations on Final Regulations for DOD's National Security Personnel System: People are critical to any agency transformation because they define an agency's culture, develop its knowledge base, promote innovation, and are its most important asset. Thus, strategic human capital management at the Department of Defense DOD can help it marshal, manage, and maintain the people and skills needed to meet...; Tags: Regulations, Organizational structure, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, human capital, regulation, HRMS, personnel management, human capital management, agency, HRM, knowledge base, Human Resources, asset, knowledge; White papers 2005-11-17
Defense Management: Additional Actions Needed to Enhance DOD's Risk-Based Approach for Making Resource Decisions: The lack of sustained leadership attention and appropriate accountability has challenged Department Of Defense's DOD progress in implementing the risk management framework. The work has indicated that sustained leadership is a key transformational, or change management, practice. However; knowledgeable DOD officials indicated that DOD's senior leadership did not provide sustained...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, leadership, change management, risk management, accountability; White papers 2005-11-01
Briefing on DOD's Report on Commercial Communications Satellite Services Procurement Process: The paper consists of a document which depicts that the Department of Defense DOD submitted to the Congress on July 29, 2005 a report entitled Defense Commercial Communications Satellite Services Procurement Process. In response to direction from the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, the paper reviews DOD's report...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, procurement; White papers 2005-09-27
VA and DOD Health Care: VA Has Policies and Outreach Efforts to Smooth Transition From DOD Health Care, but Sharing of Health Information Remains Limited: Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF and Operation Enduring Freedom OEF service members and those who are discharged from military service may receive health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs VA. Since the onset of OIF and OEF, the Department of Defense DOD has reported that more than 15,000 service members...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, health care, individually identifiable health information; White papers 2005-09-28
Computer-Based Patient Records: VA and DOD Made Progress, But Much Work Remains to Fully Share Medical Information: For the past 7 years, the Departments of Veterans Affairs VA and Defense DOD have been working to exchange patient health information electronically and ultimately to have interoperable electronic medical records. Sharing medical information helps promote the seamless transition of active duty personnel to veteran status and ensure that active...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, patient, electronic health record, agency, health care, computer; White papers 2005-09-28
Hurricane Katrina: DOD Disaster Response: The issue that has received the most attention in post-Katrina discussions is the speed of rescue and relief operations. The Department of Defense's (DOD's) Northern Command began its alert and coordination procedures before Katrina's landfall. An examination of the timeline of DOD's response and the decision points along that timeline...; Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Hurricane Katrina; White papers 2005-09-19
Defense Health Care: DOD Has Established a Chiropractic Benefit for Active Duty Personnel: The document consists a report which depicts that the practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure (primarily, the spine) and function as coordinated by the nervous system and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health. It also informs that to implement its chiropractic benefit, DOD...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, health care, benefit; White papers 2005-09-06
Human Capital: DOD's National Security Personnel System Faces Implementation Challenges: The Department of Defense's DOD new personnel system-the National Security Personnel System NSPS - will have far-reaching implications not just for DOD, but for civil service reform across the federal government. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 gave DOD significant authorities to redesign the rules, regulations, and...; Tags: Gale Group, U.S. Department of Defense, personnel management, human capital; White papers 2005-08-01
Terrorism, Security and the Proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards High Rise and Arena Development Project: This paper provides an overview of terrorism concerns with regard to Forest City Ratner's proposed Brooklyn Atlantic Yards BAY Development in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The issues raised by a possible terrorist attack on the proposed project site include increased project and infrastructure costs, traffic dislocations, local economic impacts, public health...; Tags: Homeland security, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Department of Defense, public health, terrorism, terrorist attack, security; White papers 2005-07-06
Human Capital - DOD's National Security Personnel System Faces Implementation Challenges: The Department of Defense's DOD new personnel system--the National Security Personnel System NSPS--will have far-reaching implications not just for DOD, but for civil service reform across the federal government. This report describes DOD's process to design its new personnel management system, analyzes the extent to which DOD's process reflects key...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, personnel management, human capital; White papers 2005-07-01
IBM and Exostar: Identity Assurance and Enablement: The U.S. Department of Defense DoD has recognized the need for improved identity management and levied a mandate requiring suppliers to use Public Key Infrastructure PKI which enables suppliers, contractors, and the DoD to engage in trust-based communication. Exostar and IBM have developed a joint methodology focused on companies of...; Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Exostar LLC, U.S. Department of Defense, identity management, supplier, aerospace, PKI, IBM Corp.; White papers 2005-07-01
Defense Health Care: Implementation Issues for New TRICARE Contracts and Regional Structure: The Department of Defense DOD provides health care through TRICARE - a regionally structured program that uses civilian contractors to maintain provider networks to complement health care provided at military treatment facilities MTF. In 2004, DOD implemented extensive changes to its TRICARE contracts and regional structure. This report provides information...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, health care, performance; White papers 2005-07-01
Making Sense of Sensemaking: In today's international security environment the historical and traditional challenges of yesterday are becoming ever more complex. New thoughts and new terms and new technologies are rapidly emerging as nations and coalitions transform today to confront and resolve the timeless challenges associated with changing to meet the demands of tomorrow....; Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, decision-making, security; White papers 2005-06-16