Teecht. U.S. Armed Forces Seeks To Live On To A Greater Extent Than Lethal, Including Inwards Space, Mattis Says
By Lisa Ferdinando, DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military machine is seeking to last to a greater extent than lethal inwards all domains, including space, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said yesterday.
In a briefing amongst reporters inwards Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mattis said U.S. Northern Command volition accept to alter to encounter the challenges of the future, to include space-related safety challenges.
“As the threats to North America evolve, we'll accept to evolve the command, too,” he said. “It volition driblet dead on to conform from what it does, incorporating cyber defenses, outer infinite priorities and, of course, the air-breathing threats that we'll accept to remain alarm to.”
Pentagon Business Reform
Mattis said changes commencement amongst describe of piece of job organisation reforms within the Pentagon. He noted the Defense Department is currently non adopting best practices from industry.
“We desire to brand the military machine to a greater extent than lethal inwards outer infinite as well as cyberspace, at sea, on land, as well as inwards the air,” Mattis said. The department, he added, also wants to strengthen relations amongst U.S. partners as well as allies.
The subdivision needs to examine the changing grapheme of war, to include issues similar artificial intelligence, hypersonics as well as outer infinite activities, according to Mattis.
“These accept all got to last looked at, because equally nosotros tell inwards the U.S. Department of Defense, our adversaries larn a vote,” he said.
Mattis travelled to Colorado for the U.S. Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony yesterday as well as the alter of command today at Northcom as well as the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
Northcom was established Oct. 1, 2002, to render command as well as command of DoD homeland defence forcefulness efforts as well as coordinate defence forcefulness back upward of civil authorities.
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