On DoD: Congress needs to cool its jets on Defense ‘reform’; DISA stands up DoD’s biggest cyber command center

  On this week’s edition of On DoD: As Congressional staff continue to iron out differences between the House and Senate versions of the 2017 Defen...

On DoD: Justin Johnson, Heritage Foundation; Col. Paul Craft, Commander, DISA Global

08/31/16 11:00

 

On this week’s edition of On DoD: As Congressional staff continue to iron out differences between the House and Senate versions of the 2017 Defense authorization bill, both chambers have posed items framed as “reforms” to the landmark 1986 Goldwater Nichols Act, particularly in the Senate version. Justin Johnson, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation argues Congress needs to pump the brakes on those efforts, mainly because it’s still not clear exactly what problems they’re trying to solve.

Later in the program: the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Global Operations Command just cut the ribbon on the largest cyber defense watch floor the Defense Department has ever built, at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

Col. Paul Craft, the commander of DISA Global joins us to talk about the cyber missions the joint team will perform from that new facility.

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