Tricare rolls out something new on Sept. 1. It will offer additional financial help and more in-home care for active duty family members with certain disabilities. It is called the Extended Care Health Option. ECHO is designed to provide assistance beyond what is found in Tricare Prime, Standard, or Extra. If your dependents currently receive care through the Program for Persons with Disabilities, you are not qualified for ECHO. Read the details here.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.

