by defensecomm | Jan 5, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families
About 3,500 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., are headed to the Middle East after a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. “[T]he mood around the sprawling installation… has turned serious,” the Fayetteville Observer...
by ADC | Jan 1, 2020 | DC360, Military Families
Spouses of service members will now get reimbursed up to $1,000 for updating their professional licenses when they move to a new state with the service member. The change was authorized in the new defense policy bill. A pilot program previously allowed spouses to get...
by defensecomm | Jan 1, 2020 | DC360, Military Families
Spouses of service members will now get reimbursed up to $1,000 for updating their professional licenses when they move to a new state with the service member. The change was authorized in the new defense policy bill. A pilot program previously allowed spouses to get...
by defensecomm | Dec 17, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families
The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support celebrated the opening of its new headquarters building in Philadelphia, a project that has been in the works for almost a decade, according to a press release. “You now have a 21st century building to go along with the...
by defensecomm | Dec 16, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families
The defense appropriations measure the House will consider Tuesday is part of a four-bill package that also funds homeland security; commerce, justice and science; and financial services. According to a summary, the DOD spending portion: provides $50 million for the...
by defensecomm | Dec 15, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families
Austin, Texas, tops the list of service member housing allowance increases for next year, Federal News Network reported, based on DOD’s new list. The average increase across the country is 2.8%. A few areas have slight decreases in the allowance, but no service...
by ADC | Dec 10, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Energy, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
The House will consider a final version of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act Wednesday. The deal announced by negotiators in the House and Senate authorizes $735 billion in DOD spending and $8 billion for related programs in other departments....
by ADC | Dec 5, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families
Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) told executives of top private on-base housing companies that he is concerned that poor housing conditions only came to light when military families spoke up. “The Pentagon didn’t come to Congress and say, ‘We have a problem.’ You didn’t...
by ADC | Dec 4, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families, News from ADC
Five communities have been named to the 2020 class of Great American Defense Communities. ADC announced the selections in a press release. The communities are Central Arkansas; Davis and Weber counties in Utah; the Greater Abilene region in Texas; Junction City, Kan.;...
