Thousands of Guard and Reserve members need to hustle to meet a Sept. 30 deadline for enrolling in the newly restructured Tricare Reserve Select health care plan. There will be no automatic rollover into the new plan for current Tricare members, according to a Tricare Management Activity release. As of early September, just 15 percent of the 11,000 reservists currently under Tricare had submitted the mandatory request forms to regional contractors.
Unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous aircraft may provide a solution to operating in heavily contested domains such as the Taiwan Straits, according to a panel of expert who suggested operationalizing artificial intelligence for such purposes sooner rather than later. The group gathered virtually to help launch the Mitchell Institute for…