A new task force will get the Space Futures Command to its initial operating capability "if not by the end of this year, then within a year."
"The battlefield is getting more contested and more complex and more challenging — and our near peers are pushing hard," Jason Mallare said.
“The things we’re doing are pretty logical there. They’re aligned with what our needs are relative to the threat," Frank Kendall said.
"When you have two-thirds plus of the active duty military force that's obese ... you know you've got a huge problem," Stephen Cheney said.
"I think the draft in the future scenario would look less like it did in Vietnam and more like it did during the world wars," Taren Sylvester said.
Congress has until the end of the month to reauthorize Overseas Comparability Pay.
Along with the new command, the service stood up the Integrated Development Office as part of its sweeping set of plans announced in February.
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A new bill, called the Right to IVF Act, rolls together four previous bills all aiming to broaden fertility coverage nationwide.
“It’s ambitious, but I believe it is executable. The environment is still going to be tough in 2025," Brig. Gen. Christopher Amrhein said.
"I think we'll see a lot of new developments in the next month or two with CMMC, and implementation sometime early next year," said Eric Crusius.
The Department of the Air Force is on track to meet its recruitment goals for fiscal 2024 across all components.
"I think that if the tone is set and the commitment is made to work towards this, other components can also achieve it," said Coralis Rodriguez.
"I think we do a great job of supporting NASA's intricate missions," said Todd May, senior vice president of KBR’s Science and Space Business.
A DoD inspector general report found DoD inconsistently marked controlled unclassified information (CUI). Under CMMC, that could be a big problem.