According to the Pentagon’s chief of health affairs, William Winkenwerder, DOD’s new digital medical record system—known as AHLTA, and it’s not an acronym—is one of the ways in which DOD is “leading the way” in medical interoperability and data sharing. He told reporters last week that DOD transfers electronic records every month to Veteran Affairs on separated service members. The VA is not so certain they are getting what they need. The Government Accountability Office agrees with VA and the issue is becoming a sore spot with some lawmakers.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.