Keeping the Defence Team informed.

Messages for the Defence Team

• DND/CAF Ombudsman 2024-2025 Annual Report
  • Recourse and complaint mechanisms
• Modernizing digital information at Defence (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Better IM starts with you: Organize your digital workspace (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Join the IMpact Now! challenge to shape the future of information management (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Recent amendments to Defence Administrative Orders and Directives (DAODs):
  • Updated DAODs:
    • DAOD 1000-6 – Data, information, and ICT management (Transfer of authority)
    • DAOD 1001 Series – Transfer of an organization and functional authority
    • DAOD 1002 Series – Transfer of an organization and functional authority
  • New DAODs:
    • DAOD 5022-0 – Potable water quality management framework
    • DAOD 5022-1 – Potable water quality management
• Join the fun: Solve this week's Defence Team Word Puzzle

CAF Employees

• Ombud update:
  • Cadets: An investigation of the support provided to cadets who suffer an illness or injury as a result of a cadet activity
  • Service versus Self: A systemic investigation into contingency cost moves for personal reasons, compassionate status, and compassionate postings in the CAF

Public Service Employees

• July is a three-paycheque month (accessible only on the National Defence network)
• Complete the 2025 Staffing and Non-Partisanship Survey

Leadership Corner

• Managers: Your monthly Pay Responsibilities Calendar is out (accessible only on the National Defence network)

The Maple Leaf

• Operation CADENCE: RCAF secures airspace for G7 Summit
• End of an era, start of a new mission: Final Med Tech (Pte) course graduates as CAF launches Combat Medic and Paramedic trades
• Corner Brook Chronicles: From land to sea — Sailor 1st Class Zack Davidson

Events and Commemorations

• August 8, 1918: First World War: Battle of Amiens and beginning of Canada's Last Hundred Days
• August 9: National Peacekeepers Day
• August 9, 1960: Congo: CAF participation in Opération des Nations unies begins (secure withdrawal of Belgian forces and mercenaries; prevent civil war)
• August 10, 1990: Gulf War (1990-1991): Op FRICTION begins (CAF contribution to Coalition forces)

For more information, please visit Canadian Heritage and Veterans Affairs Canada.

In case you missed it

• DT News on TML - July 30
• DT News on TML - July 22
• DT News on TML - July 16
• DT News on TML - July 9
• DT News on TML - July 2
• DT News on TML - June 24
• DT News on TML - June 17
• DT News on TML - June 11

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