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By Lauren C. Williams Jan 20, 2021 The Defense Department has begun shifting the chief management officer position and duties that Congress repealed in the 2021 defense authorization bill to several entities across DOD, including the CIO. Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist pushed out in two memos dated Jan. 11 re-establishing two organizations to bear some CMO responsibilities, and realigning others across the Office of the Secretary of Defense. One memo resurrected two positions: the As...

Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House. Days after winning the November election, Joe Biden announced the names of those staffing his transition. Big Tech landed prominent spots. Among the hundreds of personnel on the agency review teams serving the president-elect, there was one from Uber, two from Amazon, and one from Google. And then there were two people from R...

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to Leave Post on Inauguration Day Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy speaks at a COVID-19 briefing, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., April 30, 2020. (DoD/Lisa Ferdinando) 19 Jan 2021 The Armys chief of staff announced Tuesday that the services top civilian leader will leave his post at noon Wednesday as President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office. "Secretary Ryan McCarthy is the best of the best; hes been a great boss, a great leader, a great partner," Gen. Ja...

. (These proposals subsequently failed.) The net difference between those two views is well over $150 billion dollars in a single year. In an ideal world, the defense budget debate would be fact-based and informed. Of course, no one should be under any illusion that final defense budgets spring fully formed from dispassionate strategic analyses. The last word on defense spending always results from the clash of strategic thought and the reigning political environment. In the United States, suc...

USNI News Home » Budget Industry » GAO: Design Delays on Columbia Sub Program Leading to Construction Delays, Cost Increases GAO: Design Delays on Columbia Sub Program Leading to Construction Delays, Cost Increases Artist’s rendering of the Columbia-class SSBN submarine. US Navy Image The Government Accountability Office released a new report that warns Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine cost and schedule plans are at risk due to problems with a new digital design tool and cascading...

Senators Raise Concerns Over Pending Ouster of Military Medical University President Richard Thomas, president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, makes his remarks during the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program intern graduation in the NMCP auditorium. (Kris Lindstrom/U.S. Navy) 15 Jan 2021 Defense Department officials have delayed a meeting on whether to fire the president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USUHS, a retired Army two-s...

Norquist issues guidance on breakup of CMO office January 12 Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist, right, and then-Chief Management Officer Lisa Hershman share a laugh in May 2019. Norquist is now in charge of breaking up Hershmans office. (Lisa Ferdinando/U.S. Defense Department) WASHINGTON — With the Pentagon’s chief management officer role officially disestablished by Congress, Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist has issued guidance on where the authorities and personnel...

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18) and untreated recreational water ( 19) in the United States, but the burden of disease from all water sources (drinking, recreational, environmental) and exposure routes (ingestion, contact, inhalation) has not been estimated. We present an estimate of the burden of waterborne disease in the United States that includes gastrointestinal, respiratory, and systemic disease; accounts for underdiagnosis; and includes all water sources and exposure routes. Methods We defined waterborne disease as...

The report adds details to a plan introduced by now former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.