The Disability Evaluation System (DES) is a management tool used by the Department of Defense to determine the disposition of a service member who has a medical

This book focuses on four major research tasks related to improving system performance: developing a basis for assessing DES outcomes, identifying issues of var

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) instituted a jointly managed disability evaluation process. This process began as th

In Feb. 2007, a series of articles in ¿The Washington Post¿ about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center highlighted problems in the military¿s disabi