Just the sheer number of uniformed and civilian personnel - about 2.3 million military and 700,000 civilian - would make internal communications at the US Department of Defense (DoD) a challenge.
But making things harder, notes Allison Barber, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs and internal communications, is the varying level of access to information many of these people have, as they deploy to warfronts or are otherwise in transit to any of the 177 countries where ...