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09 May 24. U.S., German Defense Leaders Discuss Shared Interests in NATO, Ukraine, Indo-Pacific. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III today hosted German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at the Pentagon for a bilateral discussion on shared interests ranging from Ukraine to operations in the Indo-Pacific region.
Austin commended Pistorius on Germany’s commitment to providing support to Ukraine’s self-defense, citing, among other things, the weapons systems Germany has supplied and the financial commitments it has made.
“After the United States, Germany is the second-largest donor of military assistance to Ukraine, as it resists Putin’s aggression,” Austin said. “You earmarked $7.7 billion for Ukraine in 2024 alone. Germany has donated critical air defense systems and artillery. And we will continue our close partnership to ensure that Ukraine has the capabilities that it needs to succeed on the battlefield.”
Germany has also taken in the largest number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, Austin said.
“Thanks for everything that Germany is doing for Ukraine’s self-defense,” Austin said.
When it comes to greater Europe-wide commitments to security, Austin said Germany is also contributing greatly.
“Germany’s plan for a permanent brigade in Lithuania is a historic commitment that will strengthen European security,” he said. “And we commend Germany for reaching our shared NATO commitment to spend at least 2% of your GDP on defense this year. Germany remains one of our strongest and most reliable allies.”
The secretary also noted Germany’s deployment of troops to support security and stability in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.
“Whether deterring the Kremlin’s aggression, or bolstering stability in the Indo-Pacific, our two proud democracies are in lockstep,” Austin said.
Pistorius thanked Austin for American leadership in supporting Ukraine, and acknowledged that the U.S. and Germany have interests outside Europe as well — particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
“A free and peaceful Indo-Pacific is important to all of us, and we want to help promote peace and stability in that region,” Pistorius said, adding that he looks forward to Germany’s participation in the Rim of the Pacific exercise, which begins in June.
The event, also known as Rimpac, is the world’s largest maritime warfare exercise.” Germany is and remains a staunch ally of the United States,” Pistorius said. “We both will continue to work closely as partners, as allies, and as friends. This is more important than ever in this world, and I’m confident that we can achieve much together.” (Source: U.S. DoD)
09 May 24. Brown, Top Special Warfare Official Underscore Power of Partnerships, Collaboration. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the principal civilian advisor to the secretary of defense for all matters related to Defense Department special warfare both underscored the importance of partnerships and collaboration during a pair of speeches today at the Special Operations Forces 2024 convention in Tampa, Florida.
Delivering back-to-back remarks followed by brief Q&A sessions, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.; and Christopher Maier, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, emphasized the value of U.S. joint special operations forces working with partner-nation SOF communities, the defense industry and academia to tackle the challenges our nation faces.
Describing collaboration as “common people united by a common vision, working together to accomplish uncommon results,” Brown said such a quality is “a key component” of the SOF ethos.
“Collectively, our single most significant strategic asset is our ability to work together,” Brown told the crowd, adding that such work requires repeated engagements, increasingly complex exercises and numerous training evolutions.
“Collaboration is part of a core identity — your unwavering commitment to collective strength.”
As one example of the U.S. and partner nations working together, both Brown and Maier noted that it has been 10 years since the 87-nation Global Coalition Against Daesh formed.
“I think our 10-year anniversary of the defeat-ISIS coalition serves to highlight — as Chairman Brown did, as well — the true power of our partnerships that we have built over nearly two-and-a-half decades now of generational SOF relationships on counterterrorism,” Maier said.
Maier also explained that the U.S. and international SOF communities will have to work together more to meet the conflicts of the future.
“We are going to need to work together even more closely, especially as our missions expand,” he said.
“No one has enough, and so we will need to find ways to share more — at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.”
For his own part, Maier has spent the majority of SOF 2024 sharing and contributing to the SOF collaborative effort by holding a series of eight bilateral engagements with eight partner and ally nations, including meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II on Wednesday.
In addition to addressing the U.S. military’s strong bonds with partner nations, Brown and Maier also addressed DOD’s relationship with the defense industry.
“As the chairman of Joint Chiefs, I see it as my role to step back, look on and to think globally … to make some hard choices and make sure that we’re pursuing the best tools,” Brown said, adding that it’s important to close “gaps and seams” in defense acquisition with the right balance of capability and capacity for both the U.S. and its partners.
“And this is something that we all need to work on to make sure that we have the tools to respond when a crisis arises,” Brown said.
Maier thanked members of the defense industry for their efforts in keeping the SOF enterprise well equipped, adding that DOD will need even more of the industry’s efforts in the future.
“Walking the vendor floor in recent days, I am heartened to see so many companies — small, medium, and big — that are baking in the expectation of working across capabilities from other companies, and countries. We need you to do this even more,” Maier said.
“SOF Week is, I hope, one of those essential places in which we can bring together our trusted industry partners with our acquisition and operational leaders, to continue to catalyze our ability to work at the speed of war and discuss how we must adapt to continue to dominate the battlefield — even as the character of war is clearly changing,” Maier added.
Brown and Maier both closed out their remarks by circling back to people and partnerships.
“Together, through collaboration and teamwork, common people can attain uncommon results,” Brown said. “With such unity, I’m confident there are no limits to what we can achieve.”
“No one can go it alone and be successful,” said Maier, “and to fully actualize this potential, we need all of you.” (Source: U.S. DoD)
09 May 24. Readout of Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks’ Meeting With the Defense Business Board. Pentagon Spokesman Eric Pahon provided the following readout:
Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks hosted the Defense Business Board’s third quarterly meeting for fiscal year 2024 at the Pentagon today in a closed, classified session. Defense Innovation Unit Director Doug Beck joined Deputy Secretary Hicks for the discussion.
During the session, she briefed board members on making work with the Department more attractive to new and non-traditional companies to grow the defense innovation base. Deputy Secretary Hicks noted she and Secretary Austin are focused on improving every stage of the innovation process to deliver capabilities to the warfighter by working more closely and more efficiently with the commercial sector.
The Deputy Secretary noted the maturation of DoD’s effort to become a better innovation industry partner. She and Mr. Beck highlighted the evolution of the Defense Innovation Unit from an experimental project to a direct report to the Secretary of Defense to demonstrate the cultural shift taking place across the Department.
Board members asked questions and provided recommendations about transforming organizational culture based on best business practices from the private sector. Deputy Secretary Hicks thanked the board members for dedicating their time and expertise toward improving Department of Defense.
More information on DBB’s third quarter fiscal year 2024 meeting is available here: https://dbb.defense.gov/ (Source: U.S. DoD)
08 May 24. US bill would require US to coordinate Japan AUKUS role with UK and Australia. A bipartisan group of senior U.S. senators introduced legislation, on Wednesday to require officials involved in the AUKUS defense project with Britain and Australia to engage with them and Japan on how Japan could be included in the project.
A bill, introduced by Republicans Mitt Romney, Bill Hagerty and Jim Risch, and Democrat Tim Kaine, would require the U.S. to coordinate a path forward for Japan’s cooperation on advanced technology projects under the so-called Pillar 2 of AUKUS.
AUKUS was formed in 2021 to counteract China’s growing power. Its first pillar involves cooperation between the three partners to provide Australia with nuclear powered submarines, but they have raised the possibility of other countries joining a second pillar to develop other high-tech weaponry.
The partners announced in April they were considering working with Japan on specific Pillar 2 projects and would hold talks this year.
In a statement from his office shared with Reuters announcing the Coordinating AUKUS Engagement with Japan Act, Romney said the U.S. must link arms with allies to push back against China’s increased “aggression.”
“The legislation would require … (AUKUS) coordinators at both the U.S. Departments of State and Defense to engage with the Japanese government, and consult with counterparts in the U.K and Australia, to discuss what including Japan in certain advanced technology cooperation activities under the AUKUS framework would look like,” the statement said.
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It quoted Kaine as saying AUKUS was “critical to keeping the Indo-Pacific free and open” and the bill would help “outline a path for Japan’s inclusion in AUKUS and expand defense industrial cooperation among U.S. allies.”
Risch, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the legislation would require the Biden administration to engage Japan on its interest in joining AUKUS, assess what unique technological contributions Tokyo could make and whether its export-control system was sufficiently aligned to that of the existing partners. (Source: Reuters)
08 May 24. DOD Workforce, Industry Partnerships Key to Harnessing Innovation. The Defense Department’s workforce and its partnerships with private industry remain at the core of the military’s ability to harness innovation and defend against emerging threats, the Pentagon’s top cyber official said today.
Speaking at the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security in Washington, Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said the power of the U.S. economy and private innovation remains at the core of ingenuity.
“And so how we think about our partnerships with industry is foundational to, really, our way forward,” Haugh said. “When we think about cybersecurity and the role that industry plays , we’re unique in that our domain is really a manmade domain, largely by Western industry.”
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Haugh, who also serves as the director of the National Security Agency, said the organizations he oversees are uniquely postured to build partnerships “that take advantage of the overall ecosystem.”
One way DOD has built those relationships, he said, is through their authorities to collaborate with industry on information sharing.
“The number of cybersecurity advisories that have been done by the National Security Agency that really start to lay out what are the threats,” he said. “And having industry contribute to that really gives us a sight picture that not only affects government but allows us to also impact the cybersecurity industry in terms of being able to pass our understanding and synchronize that with the way industry sees it.”
That approach is especially critical when considering the protection of critical infrastructure, Haugh said.
“The more we’re able to partner with industry, and the ability for us to share and do that at the unclassified level, allows us to expand our partnerships and do it rapidly.”
Defense officials emphasized these partnerships in DOD’s first strategy aimed at enhancing cybersecurity across defense industry stakeholders, released in March.
The Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy plots a course for increased focus and collaboration between the DOD and the U.S. defense industrial base on cybersecurity initiatives amid what officials say are persistent cyberthreats.
The strategy lays out DOD’s vision over the next three years for a secure, resilient and technologically superior U.S. defense industrial base to ensure the United States’ warfighting edge.
It outlines four goals aligned with that vision:
Strengthening DOD’s governance structure for U.S. defense industrial base cybersecurity;
Enhancing the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. defense industrial base;
Preserving the resiliency of critical defense industrial base capabilities in a cyber-contested environment; and
Improving cybersecurity collaboration between DOD and the U.S. defense industrial base.
Haugh emphasized that the defense industrial base remains at the core of the United States’ enduring advantage.
That advantage is further enabled by an innovative workforce that remains primed to capitalize on emerging technologies, Haugh said.
He added that continuing to cultivate the skills and ingenuity across the workforce remains at the core of his strategy to harness emerging technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence.
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“We have a unique workforce,” Haugh said. “That is really our foundation: highly technical the ability to be able to operate and integrate technology quickly.”
The Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security is a two-day event to bring together pioneers and champions from the government, private sector and scientific community to examine how to advance collaboration in pursuit of national security. The late Ash Carter was the 25th Secretary of Defense. (Source: U.S. DoD)
08 May 24. Brown: Joint Force Must Maintain Current Edge, Prepare for Emerging Threats. The Defense Department’s success in an evolving security landscape is defined by the joint force’s ability to address current threats while at the same time preparing for the future, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., said yesterday.
Speaking at the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security in Washington, Brown said this approach is critical amid rapidly emerging national security challenges.
“The way I do think about the next three to five years is we’ve got to be able to achieve today and be ready for tomorrow,” he said. “And so, it’s how we balance the risk of being able to address today’s challenges but also thinking long about the future challenges and how different events may collide and create a greater challenge for ourselves.”
Brown described a broad range of security challenges in the near term that have continued to increase in complexity since becoming the nation’s highest-ranking military officer in October.
“What I’ve watched over the course of the seven months, really reflecting on our national defense strategy which outlines our five challenges — the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and violent extremists — what I’ve found is that all five of those are active and, in some cases, are working together or interconnected in some form or fashion” Brown said.
Amid these evolving threats, the U.S. has remained steadfast in partnering with allies across the globe to deter conflict. And as the world becomes increasingly complex, Brown said more countries have sought to work alongside likeminded partners to address pressing challenges.
Brown said since assuming the chairmanship, he has held about 170 engagements with his counterparts.
Those partnerships are evident in NATO’s collective work to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s ongoing invasion.
They are also reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Brown said, where more nations are coming together to uphold a common vision of freedom and security in the region.
Last week alone, Brown held in-person meetings with five of his counterparts while in Hawaii for the U.S. Indo-Pacific change of command.
“What I’m also seeing across the Indo-Pacific is nations that have not typically worked together are starting to work together more closely in exercises,” he said.
He added that bilateral exercises, going back to his days as a junior officer, are increasingly becoming multilateral engagements.
“That’s an important aspect of us working more closely together, and an aspect of us not only having the capability, but also have the ability to deter,” he said.
Brown also emphasized the importance of DOD’s ability to innovate and harness emerging technologies to stay ahead of the threat.
Increasingly this means connecting with allies and private sector partners to get the right solutions in the hands of warfighters — a point echoed during the forum by Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, and William A. LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.
Shyu underscored the department’s work across the technology ecosystem — academia, university-affiliated research centers and commercial industries — to develop critical capabilities and deliver them at scale to the warfighter.
This collaboration is further bolstered by new authorities that allow DOD to make loans and provide loan guarantees to small companies that may not have had the opportunity to scale innovative technologies before.
Expanding DOD’s pool of innovation is critical, Shyu said, as the U.S. confronts China’s military—civil fusion strategy aimed at rapidly advancing its military technology.
LaPlante said DOD is also increasingly with allies and partners to get key capabilities in the hands of warfighters.
“The appetite for doing co-development, co-production co-production around the world is higher than it’s ever been,” he said, noting that these partnerships are critical amid China’s technological advances and as Russia increases its military spending amid its war in Ukraine.
Brown said it is critical to continue the momentum and further accelerate change across the department to deter conflict and, if necessary, win any fight — now and in the future.
“Personally, professionally, I don’t play for second place,” he said. “I’m putting my best foot forward to make sure we’re going to win. I think our national security is at stake.” (Source: U.S. DoD)
03 May 24. USAF eyes deadline to launch new command. The U.S. Air Force wants to have its Integrated Capabilities Command up and running by the end of 2024, the service’s chief of staff told reporters Thursday.
The command is a central pillar of a vast reorganization the service announced in February. This revamp, the service’s largest since the end of the Cold War, is intended to better prepare the Air Force to counter major adversaries such as China and win a high-tech, modern war amid limited funding.
The Air Force has become “fragmented” and built up its capabilities “in chunks at a time,” Gen. David Allvin said at a roundtable. But in an era where the Air Force must prepare for a potential fight against an advanced enemy, he added, the service must take a broader look to prepare for the future.
For example, he said, a siloed approach to modernization could lead one section of the Air Force to focus on updating an outdated capability, even if that capability won’t be relevant to a future fight. By having an Integrated Capabilities Command looking at the big picture, he noted, the service might recognize such an upgrade wouldn’t be worth it.
The command is intended to take a more unified approach to developing the Air Force’s future requirements into new systems or other capabilities. It will centralize the Air Force’s current system for developing plans for future capabilities, which is now largely done piecemeal by individual major commands such as Air Combat Command and Air Force Global Strike Command.
The service is still working out many details about the new command, Allvin said. But the service intends to put a three-star general in charge, he noted, and likely one from an operational background, even if it has to pick a temporary commander at first.
And the organization could ultimately have between 500 and 800 airmen, Allvin said, though he stressed that figure is still in flux. These would be airmen who focus on conducting longer-term planning and preparing for modernization projects.
He said the Air Force’s goal is to have individual airmen tapped for the command and already starting to work in their new jobs by the end of the calendar year.
Allvin indicated the number of airmen moved from individual commands to this new one would probably number a few dozen, adding: “We don’t anticipate it will be moving hundreds from a place.”
The Air Force is working to ensure it doesn’t mistakenly take airmen away from major commands, which could impact the readiness of existing systems, Allvin said.
The Air Force envisions a series of satellite offices for the command throughout the United States, Allvin noted, meaning most airmen would likely stay at their current bases.
The Air Force needs to think more creatively about ways to accomplish its missions, Allvin said, such as carrying out long-range strike operations to sink Chinese ships. For the last two decades, he added, China has focused on building a naval force designed to keep the United States at a distance — something the U.S. Air Force must counter. He pointed to the service’s experimentation with launching cruise missiles from the back of a cargo plane as an innovative way to achieve long-range strike requirements without employing traditional bombers.
Or, he said, modernization planners working on updating the F-16 jet′s radar might have more access to experts working on the KC-46 tanker and share ideas and strategies that might work better.
“We want to be able to keep up with the pace of technology, the pace of change, and have the operators come together to build one force design, rather than multiple parts that are sort of stitched together at the end,” Allvin said.
This will benefit the entire service by leading to “a more coherent force design,” he added, as well as help Air Force Materiel Command better understand and predict what it will need to build and sustain all the service’s different systems.
“This is about getting the system right,” Allvin said. “Looking into the arc of the future and how we see how technology is playing out, how the strategic environment is playing out, and how we assess the way that we put together the capabilities we use to go to war.”
06 May 24. Pentagon outlines systems, funding for first batch of Replicator. The Pentagon released its clearest picture yet of Replicator, an ambitious program to field thousands of drones by next August.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the goal late last summer. In the eight or so months since, there‘s been scant details on how it would be funded and what exactly would be procured.
Hicks partially answered both questions with a statement Monday, saying that the first items in Replicator’s shopping cart would include AeroVironment’s Switchblade-600 loitering munition, a batch of uncrewed surface vehicles and another unspecified set of counter-drone systems.
The maritime vehicles are a part of a solicitation from the Defense Innovation Unit — a Pentagon group that scouts high-tech weaponry — published this year. These production-ready, inexpensive, maritime expeditionary, or PRIME, systems are meant to transit hundreds of miles, wait for a target and then intercept it. The Pentagon will award “several” contracts for the drone this summer, according to the statement.
The PRIME contract relies on an authority that makes it easier for the Defense Department to work with commercial companies, and which it used often to buy protective gear during the coronavirus pandemic.
Two senior defense officials, briefing reporters Sunday on the condition of anonymity, would not describe Replicator systems in further detail. The statement said other maritime and counter-drone systems in this first buy were classified.
The second question to this point has been funding. Earlier this year, Hicks said the program would split $1bn between fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The total for FY24 would come from a $300m reprogramming request — essentially getting Congress’ permission to move around existing money — and another $200m the Pentagon had already secured.
On the call Sunday, one of the defense officials said some of the $200m bucket comes from money left around from previous years and some of it comes from separate reprogramming requests, which the military services are now sending Congress. There’s also money in the massive national security supplemental passed in April that could aid Replicator.
“It gives us some optionality,” the official said of that new bill.
The $500m for FY25 won’t involve shifting money around. It’s included in the Pentagon’s budget request, rolled out this March, but not on a specified line.
Replicator overall has two goals. The first is to fast-track these drones with a focus on countering China. And the second is to learn a new way of business for the Pentagon, one future leaders can repeat to rush in other systems.
Both goals, according to the defense officials, are moving according to plan. They wouldn’t share dollar figures, nor the number of systems being purchased in this round — meant to be one of many before next August.
For this first batch of systems, the second defense official said that the Pentagon increased manufacturing capacity “three-to-eight times.”
The officials didn’t say when there would be a second round of buys for Replicator but did say the next systems will likely feature similar sorts of drones, software and “enablers,” such as command and control and autonomy.
The goal, said the first defense official is to make sure not only that the Pentagon can meet its purchasing goals but also make sure the systems are ready when they arrive. To that end, the Defense Department is developing concepts of operation, gathering data, and reviewing the systems to make sure they meet the Pentagon’s ethical and policy guidelines, said the first official.
They’re also working with Congress, where some lawmakers have been frustrated at the scarcity of details surrounding the program. The officials said that so far they’ve held 30 “engagements” about the program with Capitol Hill, along with more one-on-one meetings.
“We’re still learning,” the first official said. “Replicator is about pushing the boundaries.” (Source: C4ISR & Networks)
03 May 24. Austin Underscores Power of Partnerships at Indo-Pacom Change of Command. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III underscored the power of U.S. partnerships in the Indo-Pacific as he presided over the U.S. Indo-Pacific change of command ceremony today at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
The Secretary praised the hundreds of thousands of Indo-Pacom service members and civilian personnel for the long strides the U.S. and its allies have made in bolstering freedom and security throughout the region.
“Every day, Indo-Pacom keeps the watch in our priority theater of operations,” Austin said. “And together with our unmatched network of allies and partners, you’re advancing our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific — each and every one of you.”
These strides, Austin said, are critical amid a range of challenges throughout the region, ranging from China’s increasingly coercive behavior across the Taiwan Strait, East and South China Seas and elsewhere throughout the region.
” is the only country with both the will — and, increasingly, the capacity — to dominate the Indo-Pacific and to reshape global order to suit its autocratic vision,” he said, noting that China remains the Defense Department’s pacing challenge.
Those challenges are further compounded by the threats posed by North Korea, Russia and violent extremists in the Indo-Pacific.
“But Indo-Pacom has risen to meet the moment, together with our allies and partners,” Austin said. “And it has moved us closer to our shared vision of an Indo-Pacific that is free and open and secure — again and again and again.”
Austin credited outgoing Indo-Pacom Commander Navy Adm. John C. Aquilino for his leadership in transforming the United States’ posture in the region during “a decisive time for our defense strategy” under his tenure.
The secretary noted Aquilino’s leading voice behind major investments in critical munitions and drive to arm the warfighter with critical capabilities.
He also highlighted Aquilino’s leadership in deepening partnerships throughout the region — a critical component of U.S. strategy to deter conflict throughout Indo-Pacom’s expansive area of responsibility.
“Indo-Pacom is working with our regional allies and partners like never before,” Austin said noting a series of major combined regional exercises that are indispensable for bolstering interoperability with key allies.
Austin also noted the long strides made with allies and partners in strengthening the United States’ regional force posture — from stationing the most advanced Marine Littoral Regiment in Japan to expanding U.S. access to four new sites under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Philippines.
He also noted milestones under the Major Defense Partnership with India and the AUKUS partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom.
“Our allies are also working together in unprecedented ways, like the growing trilateral relationship among Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States,” Austin said. “And we’ve continued to strengthen our ties across the region, including with, the Quad and other groups of partners.”
That commitment to partnerships was on full display leading up to the change of command ceremony as Austin hosted a series of meetings with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the Philippines at Indo-Pacom headquarters on Thursday.
In a press conference following the meetings, the leaders underscored their commitment to further improving interoperability between their forces and promoting peace and security throughout the region.
“We’ve gathered here because we share a vision for peace, stability and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific,” Austin said. “We’ve charted an ambitious course to advance that vision together, and that’s why today’s meetings were so important.
During the change of command ceremony, Navy. Adm. Samuel J. Paparo assumed command of Indo-Pacom.
Paparo, a Naval Aviator with 37 years of service, most recently served as the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Austin highlighted Paparo’s experience flying critical missions around the world and deep experience in the Indo-Pacom theater.
“It’s all been leading up to this — to the challenge of leading United States Indo-Pacom,” Austin said. “Sam, we know that you will excel. We know that you will lead with principle and pride. And we know that you will keep America safe.”
In his address, Paparo further underscored the importance of close partnerships with allies in ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific.
“As we look to the future, the joint force will meet this great responsibility with strength, resolve and confidence,” he said. “Indo-Pacom, together with our partners, is positioned to deny and defend against attempts to break the peace afforded by international rules-based order.”
Adm. Aquilino will retire after 40 years of service. He holds the title of the longest-serving Naval Academy graduate on active duty. (Source: U.S. DoD)
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