News You Can Use: 10/14/16

National Security

A Military View on Climate Change: It’s Eroding Our National Security, Government Executive

Dunford: Military families key to national security, Military Times

Need to detect drones? There’s an app for that, C4ISR Net

Federal Agencies Deploy Thousands of Feds for Hurricane Matthew Response, Government Executive

Pentagon joins Homeland, FBI in eyeing oversight, control of elections, Washington Examiner

State’s New Armed Drone Policy Confuses Ends With Means, Breaking Defense

Elusive Victories: How Counterterrorism Campaigns Can Link Back Up With Strategy, War on the Rocks

It has been 15 years and we still don’t know what will become of Afghanistan, The Washington Post

After U.S. blames Russia for hacking, what comes next?, C4ISR Net

Pence insists he and Trump agree on U.S. military plans for Syria, Military Times

Cybersecurity

How the next president can bridge the internet-cyber gap, Brookings

For Secret Service CIO, cybersecurity is the mission, Federal Times

Quiz: Are You the One Letting Hackers Into Your Agency?, Nextgov

How are cyberthreats evolving?, C4ISR Net

Guarding Pentagon Weapons Against Cyberattack, Aviation Week Network

Does NSA support of CYBERCOM blur lines?, C4ISR Net

Public Health

TRICARE Lowers Mental Health Care Co-Pays, Expands Treatment Options, Government Executive

Health conditions worsen as aid trickles into remote Haiti, Associated Press

Launch of new military health records system delayed until early 2017, Military Times

Zika Virus 6 Months Later, The Journal of the American Medical Association

Urgent Maternal Health, Protection Needs of Women, Girls Focus of UNFPA Response in Haiti, Relief Web

Pokémon Go’s immediate impact on public health: 144 billion steps and counting, Healthcare IT News

Human Rights & Humanitarian Efforts

‘Women Survive. They Do Not Live.’, Foreign Policy

South Sudan’s Attacks on U.N. Could Imperil Future Peacekeeping, Foreign Policy

Airmen Detail Hurricane Relief Efforts in Haiti, Military.com

Is the British military opting-out of human rights?, Al Jazeera

Donald Trump is a Danger to the World, Says U.N. Human Rights Chief, Newsweek

Government & Military Personnel

Why Agencies Should Better Use Data To Make Pay, Leave Decisions, Government Executive

Congress must focus on VA’s jobs program for disabled vets, The Hill

To Fight Climate Change, Institute a Four-day Workweek, Government Executive

Veterans forced to wait in heat, stand for long periods of time at SA VA clinic, ABC

Both Political Parties Believe Next Administration Should Prioritize Performance Management in Agencies, Government Executive


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