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Today in DOD

Nov. 17, 2015
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announces the first phase of personnel reforms in his Force of the Future initiative at 2 p.m. EST at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.  The announcement will be live streamed on www.defense.gov.

 

Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. have no public or media events on their schedules.

 

Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer David DeVries, Army Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, Chief Information Officer U.S. Army, and Vice Adm. Ted Branch, director, Naval Intelligence and deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, participate in a chief information officer panel at 8:05 a.m. EST, and Army Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn, director, Defense Information Systems Agency and commander, Joint Force Headquarters - DoD Information Networks provides a keynote address at 12:20 p.m. EST,  at the Cyber Conference 2015 at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, 1250 S. Hayes St., Arlington, Virginia.

 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Stephen Welby provides remarks on DoD acquisition and pursuing warfighting effectiveness and superiority at the Senior Acquisition Management Course at 10:40 a.m. EST, at Scott Hall, Defense Acquisition University, 9820 Belvoir Rd., Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

 

Army Col. Steven Warren, spokesman, Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), conducts a press briefing live by DVIDS from Baghdad, Iraq at 11:30 a.m. EST in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2E973).  Journalists without a Pentagon building pass will be picked up at the River Entrance Pedestrian Bridge or Pentagon Metro Entrance only.  Plan to arrive no later than 30 minutes prior to the event; have proof of affiliation and two forms of photo identification.  Please call 703-697-5131 for escort into the building.

 

Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, commander, U.S. Southern Command, provides remarks on current and emerging security challenges in the Americas at a National Defense University forum on the Western Hemisphere, at 1:30 p.m. EST, at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, 260 5th Ave., Washington, District of Columbia.