Gen. Dan Caine called for greater collaboration between the Pentagon and industry — building on the Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit — to speed up new technology, especially for globally integrated command and control.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is the senior ranking member of the Armed Forces and the primary military adviser to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council.
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Lt. Gen. Dan Caine has promised to give the president his best military advice “even when the president may have different feelings about it," he told lawmakers previously.
Retired Lt. Gen. John Caine pledged to "provide the president with the best military advice, even when the president may have different feelings about it. That is exactly what the nation pays me to do."
Trump announced he would nominate retired three-star Air Force general Dan Caine as his chairman of the joint chiefs.
Air Force Gen. CQ Brown received praise for his career while fielding some culture war questions from Republicans, and separately indicated he would not work for a defense contractor after serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Former CSAF Gen. David Goldfein, who like many fighter pilots isn't a big guy, was passed over as CJCS because he didn't "look macho enough for Trump," said one former Pentagon insider.
The Dolphin submarines are armed with a mix of very advanced weapons, including long-range ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads.
"Look, I'm an Army guy,” Milley said. "And I love the Army...but the fundamental defense of the United States and the ability to project power forward will always be for America naval and air and space power."
One day after President Trump told the country not to worry about COVID-19, all but one member of Joint Chiefs of Staff are forced into lockdown. The head of Cyber Command is in quarantine as well.
Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.
"They're cleaning up a bit of 'the who's in charge' of deciding which mode is a particular sensor going to be in on any given time of the day," one Pentagon expert said of the UCP's changes to SPACECOM's roles.
Gen. Mark Milley’s trip to Israel – his second in eight months – comes as the US and Israel heighten collaboration against Iran and its proxies.
When the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff takes to the Internet to tell the national security establishment -- and the rest of the world -- that he made a mistake appearing with the president at a civil rights protest after security personnel used tear gas and riot shields to clear the area, that is extraordinary.
Under Gen. Milley the Army went from two ready brigades to 25 and it finally -- after at least three false starts -- began to shed the heavy weight of the Cold War weapons known as the Big Five.