National security through telework: remote collaboration to protect the joint force

The Department of Defense's new "nuclear bunkers" could be a series of dining room tables across the world, linked together by internet companies and cellular data networks. After the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) exposed the U.S. national security community's unpreparedness for the gambit of potential global threats to its traditional structures, the need to use telework to protect defense may change the DoD's approach to remote collaboration. Still, it is unclear if the Department of Defense is poised to modernize the military workforce.