by ADC | Oct 8, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and the Air Force, Army and Navy secretaries met with military privatized housing owners at the Pentagon last week to discuss progress on privatized housing reform under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI), according to a...
by ADC | Oct 7, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
The Association of Defense Communities’ Alaska Defense Forum (ADF) wrapped up late last week where state-wide defense community stakeholders and leaders gathered to learn new strategies to build strong military-community partners and rally new defense community...
by ADC | Oct 7, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
A majority of Army spouses reported stress, overload or fatigue in the past year in a Rand Corp. study evaluating Army spouse challenges, their attitudes toward the Army and how available resources are used, Army Times reported Monday. “When asked to indicate the...
by ADC | Oct 6, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) is advancing a controversial plan to contract a single moving company to ship household goods for permanent change-of-station (PCS) moves, Military.com reported. The plan would replace more than 900 vendors who now ship goods...
by ADC | Oct 6, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families, On Base
Senior leaders at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., acknowledged last week that oversight of nearly 2,000 privatized military homes had slipped since DOD transferred family housing to private contractors 14 years ago, the Omaha World-Herald reported. At a command town hall...