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Pentagon tries to ‘find the right balance’ on JADC2 standards for services 5 hours ago U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Matthew Strohmeyer, U.S. NORTHCOM scenario coordinator, delivers a capabilities brief to senior leadership in 2019 during the first Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) demonstration, at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. ABMS is the Air Force s contribution to JADC2. (Tech. Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON The Pentagon team developing a new joint war-fighting concept is walking a delicate line to define when the military services need to follow common standards and when the branches need to develop their own solutions that are still interoperable.
“[On] common data standards, we’re trying to find the right balance there, [because] there was a lot of pushback,” Parker said today. “So we’re looking for a minimum required when necessary and really continue to focus on federated [standards].”
“We will have a mission partner federated data fabric out there,” he said, “[but] we acknowledge the services, combatant commands, other agencies are going to have their own fabrics that we need to be able to connect with and interoperate with.”
In layman’s terms: The Defense Department will let its subordinate organizations develop their own data standards, but they’ll need to be compatible enough that the Joint Staff can then knit them together (“federate” them”).
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Brett Goldstein oversaw the team as it took on the pandemic and challenged DOD bureaucracy.
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The head of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service will step down next month after more than two years that saw the “SWAT team of nerds” more than double in size as it took on new projects involving drone warfare, satellites and Covid-19 response.
Brett Goldstein, who was appointed DDS’ second-ever director in 2019, will finish his “nerd tour of duty” at the end of June, he told POLITICO on Monday. While Goldstein had only signed on for a two-year term, his predecessor had re-upped and there was the possibility he might as well.
By Lauren C. Williams
May 05, 2021
Almost all Defense Department personnel who have sought student loan debt forgiveness through a federal program managed by the Department of Education have been denied a trend that, if unchanged, could make it even harder to recruit and retain tech talent.
According to a recent Government Accountability Office report, 94% of DOD employees, civilian and military, were denied student loan debt forgiveness through the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, with missing form information or being short on the number of qualifying payments being the most cited reasons.
The watchdog agency noted a lack of personnel awareness of the program and coordination between DOD and the Education Department, which administers the program, to be key issues.