The U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft, built for airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, has begun flying in to Robins Air Force Base for depot maintenance.

The service branch said Thursday that depot maintenance for the aircraft, which commenced July 17, is designed to accelerate delivery of the specialized aircraft, as the JSTARS program office seeks to maximize the fleet’s availability.

The effort supports the service branch’s adoption of the Advanced Battle Management System, a platform that will function to unify intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information on global air and space.

USAF intends to operate the aircraft throughout the mid- to late-2020s upon the ABMS’ development.

“We are leveraging the experience of the operational wings and the program office team here at Robins to improve warfighting readiness,” said Brig. Gen. John Kubinec, commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex.

The service branch plans to take in one JSTARS aircraft yearly at the base over the next two years if the organic maintenance approach delivers the desired results.

The E-8C is an ISR-focused, modified version of the Boeing 707-300 series airframe.

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, has said the Military Health System will use feedback from users to adjust technical features of the Defense Department‘s new electronic health records platform, DoD News reported Thursday.

Bono, a two-time Wash100 awardee, added she expects military patients, lawmakers, consultants and members of the press to also provide input on how to improve MHS Genesis.

“It’s how we plan to get better,” she told reporters.

The team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won a multibillion dollar contract in July 2015 to build and deploy commercial EHR technology across MHS.

MHS Genesis is already live at four Washington locations, namely the U.S. Air Force’s 92nd Medical Group at Fairchild AF Base, Madigan Army Medical Center, Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor and Naval Hospital Bremerton.

The system is designed to help healthcare providers process medical records for approximately 9.4 million MHS beneficiaries, DHA said.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has recently released an information kit on how it evaluates and identifies service and capability requirements when dealing with possible partner contractors.

The Requirements and Analysis Office, which was developed for DISA in 2015, commences with the requirements management process by doing the following: business case analysis, technical exploration and validation, market research, return on investment calculations and portfolio governance, DISA said Wednesday.

“We guide you through the requirements decision-making process, from the initial requirements submission to the senior leadership decision to move forward on the requirement,” said Peter Cox, RAO’s requirement tools lead.

RAO has three branches that facilitate the operations for the requirements management process: the Requirements Analysis Branch, which identifies agency and Defense Department information technology capability shortcomings and redundancies; the Cost Analysis Branch, which identifies lifecycle cost estimates and budgets for business case analysis requirements; and the Requirements Process and Governance Branch, which streamlines and develops DISA’s requirements and governance processes.

RAO first develops a business case analysis to review specific aspects of a product request. Then it discerns how the program management offices can meet the requirements.

If the program management offices can accomplish the request, the BCA is submitted to the Services Portfolio Council for approval. After the request is approved, it will then be forwarded to the DISA executive deputy director for final approval.