Dec. 17, 2020 NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Malicious Actors Abuse Authentication Mechanisms to Access Cloud Resources In response to ongoing cybersecurity events, the National Security Agency (NSA) released a Cybersecurity AdvisoryThursday “Detecting Abuse of Authentication Mechanisms.” This advisory provides guidance to National SecuritySystem (NSS), Department of Defense (DoD), and Defense Industrial Base (DIB)
Dec. 17, 2020 Updates to Thrift Savings Plan coming in 2021 Each year, the Internal Revenue Service places limits on the dollar amount of contributions that can be contributed to the Thrift Savings Plan, or TSP. For 2021, the annual elective deferral and catch-up limits remain from 2020.
Dec. 17, 2020 AFRC History Office releases 2nd edition of AFR coloring book The Air Force Reserve Command's Office of History and Heritage released a second edition of the AFR Coloring Book online this month. This recently released edition, created by Tech. Sgt. Katie "Kat" Justen, AFRC HO Combat & Heritage artist, captures a snapshot in time of today’s Reserve members in
Dec. 14, 2020 Scobee highlights Reserve contributions, future priorities Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, highlighted the contributions of the more than 70,000 Reserve Citizen Airmen during an extremely busy 2020 and shared the Air Force Reserve future priorities during the Reserve Forces Policy Board’s
Dec. 12, 2020 Operation Warp Speed Official: First COVID-19 Vaccines to Arrive Monday The nation's first vaccines for the COVID-19 virus will be distributed Monday, following the emergency-use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna said.
Dec. 11, 2020 Command notifies Reserve Citizen Airmen of Unclassified Information changes The Defense Department’s new Controlled Unclassified Information program stood up in July 2020 with the release of DoD Instruction 5200.48, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The program ensures standardized identification, safeguarding, transmission, storage, dissemination, destruction and
Dec. 11, 2020 Resilience during holidays can be daunting, but possible Joint Base San Antonio offers many programs and services which can help lift spirits and assist in navigating the holidays in a positive way.
Dec. 11, 2020 CSAF releases action orders to accelerate change across Air Force In August, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., released his strategic approach entitled Accelerate Change or Lose, in which he described his view of the strategic landscape as Air Force chief of staff and, from that, his emphasis on why change is necessary. The newly-released action
Dec. 11, 2020 Know how to celebrate the holiday season safely Each year, approximately 400 fires occur that involve Christmas trees, according to the National Fire Protection Association, or NFPA, resulting in more than a dozen deaths, numerous injuries and more than $10 million in property loss and damage.
Dec. 11, 2020 AF Week in Photos This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.