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Open Press Events

Press Events Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III

The secretary has no public or media events on his schedule.

Secretary of Defense
Lloyd J. Austin III

The secretary has no public or media events on his schedule.

Press Events Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks

The deputy secretary has no public or media events on her schedule. Her pre-recorded remarks at the virtual 42nd Annual Department of Defense Disability Awards at 2 p.m. EDT will be livestreamed on Defense.gov.

Deputy Secretary of Defense
Kathleen H. Hicks

The deputy secretary has no public or media events on her schedule. Her pre-recorded remarks at the virtual 42nd Annual Department of Defense Disability Awards at 2 p.m. EDT will be livestreamed on Defense.gov.

Press Events Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen.Mark A. Milley  

The chairman has no public or media events on his schedule.

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army Gen.Mark A. Milley  

The chairman has no public or media events on his schedule.

Press Events Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm.Christopher W. Grady 

The vice chairman has no public or media events on his schedule.

Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Navy Adm.Christopher W. Grady 

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Additional Open Press Events


Danielle Metz, director, Information Management and Technology, and chief information officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense, discusses "Strategic Modernization of the OSD IT Enterprise" at 11:15 a.m. EDT; and other Department of Defense officials speak, at CyberScoop's CyberTalks event at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Foster, executive director, Office of Force Resiliency; Dr. Liz Clark, director, Defense Suicide Prevention Office; and Navy Capt. Kenneth Richter, director of Mental Health Policy & Oversight for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, conduct an on-the-record, off-camera media roundtable at 12:30 p.m. EDT in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2D972) to provide annual suicide data, and to outline calendar year 2021 efforts to address and prevent suicide across the Department of Defense.

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder briefs the media in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2D972) at 2:30 p.m. EDT.  The briefing will also be livestreamed on Defense.gov and broadcast on Channel 2 in the Pentagon.

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro provides opening keynote remarks at 2:30 p.m. EDT; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment Christopher J. Lowman provides closing keynote remarks at 4:20 p.m. EDT; and other officials participate, at the virtual and in-person Professional Services Council's Defense Conference 22 in Arlington, Virginia.  Register at pscouncil.org/defense.

Army Gen. James H. Dickinson, commander, U.S. Space Command, provides keynote remarks at 6 p.m. EDT at the virtual and in-person Space Industry Days event in Los Angeles, California.  Register at afcea-la.org/events/space-industry-days-2022/.

DoD Postings: October 20, 2022