Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric M. Smith spoke about maintaining a balance between being ready to respond to crises in the present while at the same time investing in future capabilities during a defense industry exposition.
Good cyber hygiene, which includes things like regularly changing passwords or applying software security patches, plays an outsized role in preventing America’s adversaries from hacking into and crippling U.S. infrastructure systems.
A challenge for DOD has been both competing with the private sector for talent, but also finding the best way to manage the talent it has and that it brings on are in the most appropriate jobs.
DOD’s recently published National Defense Industrial Strategy lays out four long-term strategic priorities to help build a modernized defense industrial ecosystem.
Exercise African Lion provides an opportunity to conduct realistic, dynamic and collaborative readiness training in austere environments, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.
Senior leaders from the uniformed services’ reserve component branches spoke out in favor of aligning pay and benefits within their organizations during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense budget hearing.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III told lawmakers the DOD budget request centers on defending the nation, taking care of service members and their families, and strengthening relationships with like-minded U.S. partners and allies.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III plans to meet with key regional allies in Hawaii and preside over the change of command ceremony for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
