DOD civilians in Japan will soon test a program designed to help them get better access to medical care. (Defense Health Agency photo) Thousands of Defense Department civilians in Japan may get some ...

Editor’s note: Have problems in the military health care system recently affected you or your family? Email [email protected] to share your thoughts. A new Defense Department watchdog report ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Defense Department is counting on the contractor that provides health care for military members overseas to create a provider network in Japan that accepts civilian ...

Have you moved to a new duty station and can't get child care at the military child development center? A new pilot program that took effect Oct. 1 provides another option for service members in that ...

Come November, most active-duty and some Reserve and National Guard members will be able to sign up for flexible spending accounts to help pay for child care, preschool, day camps and even adult day ...

Military child care centers and Department of Defense schools are allowed to continue hiring workers with their exemptions from the civilian hiring freeze, according to Pentagon personnel officials.

Civilian employees of the Defense Department in the Indo-Pacific will face even more difficulty securing on-base health care next year, according to a Defense Health Agency memorandum. Starting Jan. 1 ...

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Troops soon will be able to use flexible spending accounts for dependent child care. Here, a soldier from the 330th Movement Control Battalion embraces his daughter at Fort Bragg, N.C., after ...

Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, said she has expanded her definition of interoperability for DOD's new electronic health record system. Defense Health Agency Director ...

New benefits are coming for U.S. service members with families, including programs designed to ease the financial burden and stress of raising children in today's tough economic environment. Defense ...