Air Force

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Air Force Buys 18,000 iPads – Not 'Equal' Tablets

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | March 2, 2012

The Air Force Air Mobility Command awarded Executive Technology Inc. of Phoenix a $9.6 million contract to acquire up to 18,000 Apple iPad 2 computers to store and display digital flight charts and manuals.

The deal announced Friday came one month after the command kicked off the procurement for iPads "or equal" tablet computers. Read More »

Air Force Considers Dumping PCs for 1.2 Million Thin Clients

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | March 2, 2012

The Air Force could send personal computers to the junkyard by 2014, depending on the results of a study to replace them with thin clients -- 1 million on unclassified networks and 220,000 on classified networks. Read More »

Air Force Deploys Air Tankers To Battle Arizona Forest Fires

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | July 2, 2013

The Air Force has deployed four C-130 aerial tankers to Arizona, where they stand ready to help battle major forest fires, including an uncontrolled and raging blaze 85 miles northwest of Phoenix that killed 19 firefighters. Read More »

Army, Air Force Tap Goodwill Industries To Scan And Send Records To VA

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | February 4, 2014

The Army and Air Force have contracted with a division of Goodwill Industries to scan and then transmit to the Veterans Affairs Department millions of pages of service treatment records of Army and Air Force personnel discharged this year. Read More »

Kitware Releases Its Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) Tracking System, Immediately Available Through Forge.mil

Press Release | Kitware | June 10, 2014

Kitware, Inc., a leader in developing advanced computer vision technologies, announces the immediate availability of its state-­of­-the­-art Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) tracking system on Forge.mil, as part of the Kitware Image & Video Exploitation and Retrieval Toolkit (KWIVER). Full source code is available with unlimited rights, under the conditions of the DoD Community Source Usage Agreement, to anyone who can access Forge.mil...

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Military Sex Assault Monitor Accused Of Sex Assault

Tom Vanden Brook | USA Today | May 6, 2013

The Air Force, which has been rocked by a sexual abuse scandal at its major training base, suffered another embarrassment Monday with the revelation that its chief sexual assault prevention officer was arrested over the weekend for allegedly groping a woman. Read More »

Moving Patients Back to Military Hospitals Top Priority

Amy Bushatz | Military.com | August 19, 2016

Shifting military family members back into military hospitals and clinics for health care is a top priority, the head of the Defense Health Agency said during a visit here Thursday. Tricare Prime, used by about 1.5 million active-duty family members, requires beneficiaries to be assigned to a primary care provider within the military treatment facility if one is available. But if the closest facility is at capacity or the family is pushed into the community for care for some other reason, those families may instead be seen by a civilian provider of base. The Defense Health Agency wants those patients back...

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Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights In US

Jennifer Lynch | Electronic Frontier Foundation | December 5, 2012

Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States. These records, received as a result of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement agencies, universities and—for the first time—three branches of the U.S. military... Read More »

Sharing Records Called Key To VA Health Care

Jessica Floum | AZ Central | September 1, 2014

...A July audit by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Defense Department failed to make proper records transfers to the VA. In the Army, 77 percent of records transferred in 2013 were not timely and 28 percent were not complete, the audit said...

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Telehealth Progress Requires Beefed Up Network Infrastructure

Rutrell Yasin | Federal Times | January 23, 2015

Federal agencies have applied telehealth technology in innovative ways to expand health care beyond the walls of veterans' hospitals and other care facilities. Current efforts allow caregivers to reach patients in their daily lives while clinicians and specialists can share and archive medical information...

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VA Plans Government's Largest Tablet Computer Deployment

Bob Brewin and Joseph Marks | NextGov | October 24, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to field up to 100,000 tablet computers, the largest such deployment in the government, VA disclosed last week in a request to industry for technical help. The department has developed a work around for federal wireless security standards that supports the devices' management in a vendor-operated cloud computing environment, according to the request. Read More »