Military Postal Service Task Group. Recommendations Regarding the Military Postal System of the Department of Defense.

AbstractArchitects of social welfare policy in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations viewed the military as a site for strengthening the male breadwinner as the head of the “traditional family.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Robert McNamara—men not often mentioned in the same conversations—both spoke of “salvaging” young men through military service. The Department of Defense created Project Transition, a vocational jobs-training program for GIs getting ready to leave the military, and Project 100,000, which lowered draft requirements in order to put men who were previously unqualified into the military. The Department of Defense also made significant moves to end housing discrimination in communities surrounding military installations. Policymakers were convinced that any extension of social welfare demanded reciprocal responsibility from its male citizens. During the longest peacetime draft in American history, policymakers viewed programs to expand civil rights and social welfare as also expanding the umbrella of the obligations of citizenship.

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Telemedicine and Business Process Redesign at the Department of Defense

Pitfalls and Triumphs of Information Technology Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-87828-961-2.ch019 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 270-291

Author(s):

James A. Rodger ◽

Parag C. Pendharkar

Keyword(s):

Department Of Defense ◽

Situational Awareness ◽

Current Theory ◽

Planned Change ◽

Holistic Model ◽

Test And Evaluation ◽

Internal Operations ◽

People Development ◽

Model Components ◽

The Military

This case is designed to relate the rationale used by the Department of Defense and the Test and Evaluation (T&E) Integrated Product Team, in order to determine the military utility of the Joint Medical Operations – Telemedicine Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (JMO-T ACTD). The case also develops critical operational issues (COI) and measures of effectiveness (MOE) as methodologies for investigating military utility of telemedicine. In order to meet increasing global crises, the U.S. military must find ways to more effectively manage manpower and time. Joint Medical Operations –Telemedicine (JMO-T) has been developed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to collect and transmit near-real-time, far-forward medical data and to assess how this improved capability enhances medical management of the battlespace. JMO-T has been successful in resolving uncertain organizational and technological military deficiencies and in improving medical communications and information management. The deployable, mobile telemedicine teams are the centerpieces of JMO-T. These teams have the capability of inserting essential networking and communications capabilities into austere theaters and establishing an immediate means for enhancing health protection, collaborative planning, situational awareness, and strategic decision-making. This case also focuses on developing a holistic model of transformation. The model synthesizes current thinking on transformation into a holistic model and also explains the integrative influence of vision on the other four model components—environment, people, methodology, and IT perspective.. The model was tested by T&E on the JMO-T ACTD. JMO-T ACTD has developed a very successful training program and is very aware of the importance of planned change. Top military officials are actively involved in change and are committed to people development through learning. The model served an applied purpose by allowing us to see how well the military organization fit current theory. The model also fit a theoretical purpose by organizing a holistic, comprehensive framework. Accordingly, we have organized and synthesized the literature into five interrelated components that act as a fundamental guide for research. The model also helped us to identify a theoretical link and apply it to the internal operations of the military.

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The Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia Initiative

Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia Handbook ◽

10.1093/med/9780197521403.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-5

Keyword(s):

Pain Management ◽

Regional Anesthesia ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

Center Of Excellence ◽

History Of ◽

The Creation ◽

The Military

This chapter is a brief history of the military developments leading to the creation of the Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia Initiative (MARAA) and eventually the Department of Defense Center of Excellence for Pain the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management.

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Performance-based Logistics

Der Betriebswirt: Volume 54, Issue 3 - Der Betriebswirt ◽

10.3790/dbw.53.1.22 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 22-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Björn Asdecker ◽

Wolfgang Kruck ◽

Reinhold Kohler

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

The United States ◽

United States Department ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

States Department ◽

Success Stories ◽

The Military

In Zeiten knapper Kassen und sinkender Budgets gab das US-Verteidigungsministerium 2001 bekannt, zukünftig verstärkt das Konzept der „Performance-based Logistics“ (PBL) zur Verschlankung der militärischen Supply Chain einzusetzen. Bestärkt durch die bisherigen Erfolge im angelsächsischen Raum, findet der Ansatz mittlerweile auch in Europa große Beachtung. Der vorliegende Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, den PBL-Begriff zu erläutern und den Innovationsgehalt des Konzepts kritisch zu hinterfragen. Darauf aufbauend gelingt die Identifikation von Anwendungspotenzialen in der zivilen Logistik. In 2001, when money was tight and budgetary resources limited, the United States Department of Defense announced the further implementation of “Performance-based Logistics” (PBL), a concept which was supposed to streamline the military supply chain. After some quite impressive success stories in the Anglo-Saxon world, the concept now attracts some interest in Europe. Therefore, this article pursues the goal of answering the following three questions: (1) What does PBLactually stand for? (2) What is the innovative contribution of the concept? (3) What potentials exist for the application of PBL in civil logistics? Keywords: performance based logistics

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Community-Based Medical Disaster Planning: A Role for the Department of Defense and the Military Health System

Military Medicine ◽

10.7205/milmed-d-09-00256 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 175 (5) ◽

pp. 298-300 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ellen P. Embrey ◽

Robert Clerman ◽

Mark F. Gentilman ◽

Fred Cecere ◽

William Klenke

Keyword(s):

Health System ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

Disaster Planning ◽

Military Health System ◽

Community Based ◽

Military Health ◽

The Military

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Biotypologies of Terrorism

Cultural Studies Review ◽

10.5130/csr.v14i2.2071 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Joseph Pugliese

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

New Technologies ◽

International Association ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Law Enforcement Agencies ◽

Suicide Bombers ◽

The Us ◽

Chiefs Of Police ◽

The Military

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) document, ‘Training Keys #581: Suicide (Homicide) Bombers: Part 1,’ is designed to assist law enforcement authorities in the pre-emptive capture of prospective suicide bombers. In this essay, Pugliese focuses on the training key to examine the manner in which essentialised biotypologies are mobilised and reproduced within the context of the so-called ‘war on terror.’ The use of biotypologies by both the military and law enforcement agencies reproduces a disciplinary biopolitical regime premised on normative conceptualisations of race, gender and bodily behaviour. Pugliese discusses these regimes in the context of the US Department of Defense and its advocacy of ‘identity dominance’ through the development of new technologies such as gait signature biometrics. Situated in this context, he shows how biotypologies of targeted subjects are instrumental in fomenting cultural panics concerning the Arab and/or Muslim and/or figure ‘of Middle Eastern appearance’.

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Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Comments on the Contributions of Marie Isabelle Chevier and Lynn Marvin Hansen

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0730938400010303 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 122-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erhard Geissler

Keyword(s):

Department Of Defense ◽

Biological Weapon ◽

Terrorist Group ◽

Biological Weapons ◽

Biological Warfare ◽

History Of ◽

The Military ◽

Biological Weapons Convention ◽

The U.S

In agreement with the overwhelming number of experts, I certainly share the view of Chevier and Hansen that the Biological Weapons Convention needs to be strengthened. Of course it is still a matter of discussion whether the military utility of biological and toxin weapons (hereafter, respectively, BW and TW) changed after the introduction of biotechnology. It is impossible, however, to ignore the 1986 statement of the U.S. Department of Defense (1988), that:… perhaps the most significant event in the history of biological weapons development has been the advent of biotechnology. It enables the development of new microorganisms and products with new, unorthodox characteristics… Conceptually, then, a nation or terrorist group can design a biological weapon to meet a variety of contingencies or needs… The break through and the subsequent achievements make biological warfare much more feasible and effective for countries which either are not bound by the convention or which choose to violate it.

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Acceleration-Based Remaining Life Prognostics for Terrain-Loaded Components on an Army Ground Vehicle System

Journal of the IEST ◽

10.17764/jiet.52.2.g40w588835068522 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 40-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard Heine ◽

Donald Barker

Keyword(s):

Department Of Defense ◽

Remaining Life ◽

Ground Vehicle ◽

Wheeled Vehicle ◽

Vehicle System ◽

Acceleration Sensors ◽

And Performance ◽

Critical Components ◽

The Military ◽

Wheeled Vehicles

Use of a health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) is one method the Department of Defense is investigating to meet conflicting cost and performance goals for Army wheeled vehicles. One area where a HUMS would be of great benefit is monitoring critical components vulnerable to terrain-induced fatigue. While strain is typically the desired input to a fatigue model, acceleration sensors are less susceptible to damage from the military ground vehicle environment and provide more reliable data over long periods of usage. The feasibility of using vibratory inputs from an accelerometer to make component fatigue predictions for a military wheeled vehicle system is explored in this study, and the use of limited subsets of data for algorithm training are evaluated. An example component is used to demonstrate that the proposed HUMS algorithms are appropriate and provide suitably accurate fatigue predictions.

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