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Defense News Weekly,
find out the latest country looking to buy the F-35,
get the inside scoop on the new National Defense Strategy,
and see the latest weapons from SHOT Show 2018.
With in-depth interviews,
up-close video,
and leading analysis,
this is Defense News Weekly.
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Welcome to this week's edition of Defense News Weekly.
I'm Jeff Martin.
The federal government has reopened
after a three-day shutdown,
but another is looming on the horizon.
After the U.S. Senate was unable to come to a deal
on January 19th,
the government was shut down for about 67 hours.
Lawmakers eventually came to a deal
to fund the government temporarily,
but roadblocks like immigration and defense spending
still stand in the way of a comprehensive budget deal
almost four months after one was due.
Belgium is the latest country to set its sights on the F-35.
While the European nation hasn't yet announced
the winner of their fighter competition,
the State Department has cleared Belgium
to purchase 34 of the conventional version
of the Lockheed Martin- made aircraft
along with 38 Pratt & Whitney engines for the aircraft.
The F-35 is competing against the Dassault Rafale
and the Eurofighter Typhoon.
It's unclear when a final decision might be made.
Belgium currently operates Lockheed Martin F-16s.
The Royal Singaporean Air Force takes delivery
of its first of six KC-30 tankers from Airbus this year
according to officials in Singapore.
The tanker, based on the Airbus A330 commercial airliner,
is also in service in Australia, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
Countries that have ordered the tanker include South Korea,
Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
For Singapore, the aircraft will replace
American made KC-135 tankers.
(woman) We have ignition
and...
liftoff of the United Launch Alliance...
(Jeff) What you're watching
is the latest launch
of the Pentagon's space-based infrared surveillance system,
which is designed to monitor ballistic missile launches
all over the world.
The mission atop an Alabama-built Atlas V rocket
was successful.
The SBIRS system replaces and supplements
Cold War era defense support program satellites.
The Pentagon has released a new National Defense Strategy,
its first in more than a decade.
The strategy, unveiled in a speech
at Johns Hopkins' Washington campus,
details how the U.S. needs to focus on nations
like Russia and China as the top priority
rather than fighting terrorism.
While much of the document is classified,
the unclassified version offers a wealth of insight
into Secretary Jim Mattis's goals for the Pentagon.
The Secretary said in his speech that America has to continue
to work to maintain dominance.
(Mattis) ...military is still strong,
yet our competitive edge has eroded
in every domain of warfare--
air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace--
and it is continuing to erode.
And history makes clear that America has
no preordained right to victory on the battlefield.
Simply we must be the best
if the values that grew out of the Enlightenment
are to survive.
It is incumbent upon us to field a more lethal force
if our nation is to retain the ability
to defend ourselves and what we stand for.
To get the inside scoop on what exactly
this new strategy means,
I sat down with Defense News associate editor Aaron Mehta.
Here's a look at that interview.
So, Aaron, for those that don't know,
what is this National Defense Strategy
that we're hearing talked about all over the news right now?
(Aaron) Yeah, so the National Defense
Strategy is part of the series
of kind of nested strategies
that are coming out of the Trump administration.
Uh, the first step was the National Security Strategy,
which happened in December.
That's kind of the overarching interagency,
"This is what we think the security picture looks like,
this is how we'll try to address it."
The National Defense Strategy,
which was released on January 19th,
is the Pentagon's portion of that.
Essentially this is a document
crafted by Secretary Mattis and his team that says
in accordance with the National Security Strategy,
we're gonna meet those goals and those missions,
this is how we're gonna do it,
and this is our portion that we're really focused on.
How much do we actually see of this document that's public?
I mean, a lot of it would seem to be more classified.
Yeah, so this is about a ten page, give or take, document,
uh, that we've seen, which is the unclassified summary.
There is a classified version.
Uh, we were told it's about five times in length
from the document that we've seen.
Uh, general assumption among us
is it's probably longer than that, frankly,
just figure tables and all sorts of stuff are in there.
Um, the other past part of this that's still to come
is the National Military Strategy,
which is gonna be crafted by the Joint Chiefs,
and that's kind of a document that'll come later this year
that's essentially saying,
"This is how we're going to do
what's in the National Defense Strategy,"
which is the focus of the National Security Strategy.
So it's almost you have your ideas,
your "here's how we're gonna do it
and here's the force we need to do that"?
-Exactly.
-Okay.
So with all of this, what--
you were at Secretary Mattis's speech when he unveiled it.
What was your feeling about this,
the actual strategy that was unveiled?
Yeah, so it's interesting.
Um, you're gonna hear this is
the first National Defense Strategy in ten years.
That is a true statement.
But part of the reason is that this National Defense Strategy
is actually mandated by Congress.
It's a replacement for what was called
the Quadrennial Defense Review, every four years defense review.
-That's quite the mouthful.
-It quite is.
And Congress was never a big fan of that.
They've gotten rid of that.
The QDR, which 2010 they happened,
2014 they happened,
those were kind of these big overarching documents
that said-- everything was in there.
Each service had a portion, each part of OSD had a portion.
It was this massive just kind of state of defense.
Uh, this document is much more focused,
and it's focused very much on what Mattis's priorities are.
Now since coming to office, he's said consistently
he has three priorities:
reform the business practices, increase lethality,
which a lot of ways means technology or capability
for the, uh, war fighter,
and to support and grow allied capabilities.
You saw those three things very much in this document.
Again, this is the Mattis document.
A lot of people have said, "Well, growing allies,
that seems to be at odds with some of the things
the Trump administration has said."
Mattis has consistently said this.
This is the Pentagon's document.
(Jeff) And that's something
we've heard from DoD leaders
across the board.
Growing allies is a priority
and work that has to be done.
With your kind of reaction, what else have you kind of heard
about the strategy from other Defense Department officials?
Yeah, you know, the big question that--with any sort of strategy,
right, 'cause the Pentagon is basically a five-sided box,
and if you look at the walls of that said box,
uh, it's really made up of calcified reports
from decades and decades that went nowhere.
So the big question is, why should this be different?
Why does this document matter?
And when you talk to officials, they say,
"Look, it's because Jim Mattis knows the building,
he understands what needs to be done,
and he's the one driving this."
I was traveling with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Joe Dunford,
right before the strategy came out;
I asked him that specific question.
Why should we believe this document will matter?
And his answer was, "Jim Mattis, by force of will,
will make this thing happen."
We'll see, we've heard that certainly from other people.
Mattis is quite the personality.
(Jeff) That's a bold statement.
(Aaron) It's a bold statement.
Mattis is a personality.
Nobody's gonna doubt that.
Whether he can drive this thing through, we'll see.
The big question is gonna be where the money goes,
and we'll see a little bit in the '19 budget,
which is gonna come up, and then they've said already
from the Pentagon the 2020 budget will be
where you really see the influence of this thing.
So with all of this, what's next?
So we've gotten the National Security Strategy,
got the National Defense Strategy,
we have the National Military Strategy.
What's after that?
Are we ever gonna see an end
to reports being dumped on us, it feels like?
(Aaron) No, it's the Pentagon,
there's always gonna be
-reports dumped on us.
-Fair enough, fair enough.
(Aaron) So, right, upcoming, uh,
I would expect late summer is when we'll see
the National Military Strategy, based on what Dunford told me.
Uh, we have coming up in early February
the Nuclear Posture Review,
which has actually leaked already,
so we've seen pretty much what's in that,
but we'll see the final version in early February.
And then either late February or early March,
we'll see the Ballistic Missile Review,
which is gonna take a look at that area as well.
So reviews always coming, and the question always is,
what will their lasting impact be?
We'll see when the budget comes.
(Jeff) All right, Aaron,
thanks for joining us.
-We appreciate it.
-Thank you.
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And when we come back,
find out who's being honored in Washington,
hear from the military's top enlisted leader,
and go inside a cyber attack.
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Welcome back to Defense News Weekly.
It's been more than a hundred years
since America entered World War I,
and yet there's no true memorial to it in Washington DC.
So one organization is working to put that memorial
in Washington DC's Pershing Square.
As part of that effort,
the World War I Centennial Commission
presented the first of the 2018
World War I Centennial Silver Dollars to Military Times
at our headquarters outside Washington DC.
On hand was the grandson of the famous
and highly decorated soldier Sergeant Alvin York.
Retired Colonel Gerald York
says the coin raises awareness
for all those who died in the Great War.
The last veteran died several years ago,
of World War I,
so there are no living veterans.
So this commission was formed to tell the story of World War I
because they're no longer around to tell the story.
The importance for me, being a veteran myself,
and my grandfather, of course, was in World War I,
but, uh, for me the significance is
that America doesn't forget their veterans.
That even though there are no living veterans around
to speak for themselves,
the commission is there to speak for those veterans
that have passed on.
Red carpet award ceremonies
are typically reserved for movie stars,
but in Washington recently,
the awardees were not household names.
Still, their contributions to society deserve recognition.
(Matt) People that take the time
and the energy
to give back and be unselfish,
um, there's probably no greater gift that you can give
to another human being than, you know, than that.
(Jeff) It might have only been
the third Veterans Awards show,
or Vettys, but it certainly didn't feel like it,
as celebrities, veterans, honorees, and guests
filled the ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel
in Washington DC.
(Sofia) Such a humbling experience.
I mean, we're giving a spotlight to these people
who we only pretend to play on the screen.
So they're real heroes,
and it's--it's just amazing to be here.
(Jeff) As host Jake Tapper said,
it was an honor just to be there
to shine a light on veterans' issues.
(Jake) The mainstream media
that is not focused on
defense and veterans doesn't do enough of it.
Um, I don't do enough of it,
but it's an incredibly important part.
We've been at war now for, uh,
I can't even count how many years,
more than 14, and, uh, you know,
there are literally millions of Americans who have served.
And, uh, you know, their needs are trotted out
during election years by politicians
and then never really again.
Um, so being a part of this newish program to honor veterans
and veterans groups and bring some attention,
uh, to their needs beyond election years
and beyond scandals, um, is a tremendous honor.
(Jeff) And for those being honored,
like Sarah Verardo,
knowing that they were there for veterans when they were needed
was deeply moving.
(Sarah) To me, seeing so many
incredible people come together
show that America cares about its military,
which is vital right now.
Always, but especially right now.
Throughout the military,
commanders have senior enlisted advisors
who represent the interests of troops under their command.
Not only is Command Sergeant Major John Troxell
the highest ranking enlisted member of the military,
he also serves as the Senior Enlisted Advisor
to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Command Sergeant Major Troxell stopped by Military Times
for a reporter round table.
Here are some of the highlights of his thoughts
on getting the right people into the military.
You know, we've gotta be diligent
in our recruiting stations
and in our recruiting commands out there
in terms of prospecting for talent
more so than processing.
At the height of the surge in Iraq and Afghanistan,
um, whether it be a sense of patriotism
by young Americans or whatever it was,
they were, you know, comin' through the doors
of our recruiting stations,
and it was easy to get the talent we need.
Not so much anymore.
Our recruiters have to be getting out,
and they have to meet the influencers now
that are influencing young men and women.
And that could be educators at school,
it could be coaches,
it could be members of the community,
like the Chamber of Commerce.
But we've gotta be out and getting after
what we call those spheres of influence
or those centers of influence,
uh, that, uh, young men and women look to.
And we've gotta partner with them
to get after the talent we need.
And when you look at the direction we need to go
to maintain competitive advantages
over any potential threats,
especially in cyberspace and nuclear domain
and space domain,
we need some very, very talented young men and women.
We are a respected institution,
the United States Armed Forces,
because we take young men and women
and we train them, we educate them,
and we--we allow them to reach their untapped potential.
And without rigor, without the discipline we need
and without the standards,
we wouldn't be the respected organization we are.
We have to prepare men and women, uh,
because combat is so brutal and unforgiving.
And just because you're not an infantry soldier
or you're not out at sea or you're not a pilot,
at any given time, you could be facing
the worst day of your life.
And so for every man and woman that joins the military,
regardless of what their specialty is,
we have to prepare them physically, mentally,
emotionally, technically, and tactically,
to fight and win and to be victorious
on the worst day of their life.
Over the past 16 years, we've seen several
non-combat specialties end up in close combat
when they weren't anticipating being in close combat.
So we have to have this standard of building a warrior first.
And then we go after the other talents we need now.
Because cyber skills and skills like that
are tough to get at,
that just means we have to, you know,
use a little bit more ingenuity at getting after this talent.
Reforming the Veterans Administration
has been a top priority for Secretary David Shulkin.
As he explains to Military Times's Leo Shane,
it's a difficult task but one he takes seriously.
You've spent a lot of time talking to both committees
up there trying to convince them to reform community care
and talk about the new-- the new care program.
Grade that so far.
I mean, we still don't have a full bill.
You're still working off another bridge fund for Choice.
Do you feel like this is--
are you frustrated at this point?
Are you upset that we're not past this already?
Well, I think it's consistent with my earlier comments,
which is that I'm generally impatient.
And so I'm not happy with our grade
because we've not accomplished our mission.
What we've done is we've continued the status quo
of the Choice Program.
And when you're in an organization where I've come out
and I've said I think we need to move quicker
and we need to transform the organization
and you end up with the status quo,
I don't think you can be happy with that.
I think that what Congress has done is responsible,
which is to continue the funding for the current Choice Program
because the alternative of letting that program
run out of money and essentially go away
would be the worst outcome.
So, fortunately we're able to continue the program
with the continuing resolution adding another period of funding
of approximately five or six months.
But, yes, I'm dissatisfied.
I want this program to be better, to work better,
to implement what we've learned will work better
and what hasn't worked in the past.
It's still too complex, bureaucratic,
and administratively run,
so it's not serving veterans in the way
that I believe it should.
And I know that we can do better.
And so we are working very closely
with both the Senate and the House,
and, as you know, both the Senate and the House--
who have terrific leadership
on both the republican and the democratic side,
I'm extremely proud of our leaders in these committees--
have both passed bills out of their committees.
Now they need to bring them to the floors
and move on with the process,
and that's something which I want them to do
as soon as possible.
Does it--does it concern you at all
that--that, really, a year into these conversations
you're still getting the privatization pushback,
you're still hearing from critics and from, you know,
even some of your democratic allies on the Hill
that too much of this idea of outside care
amounts to dismantling VA.
I know this has been something that you've been sensitive to,
so, I mean, are you-- are you--
at what point does the impatience
turn into, you know, near rage
for this still coming up?
I think this is a very appropriate debate,
so I'm not at all frustrated.
I think these are legitimate points of view.
I think that if you don't handle this well,
you could end up by creating a Choice Program
that's not well thought out,
you could end up dismantling the VA
and essentially privatizing it.
And as I've said many times,
that would be a huge mistake, in my opinion,
for veterans and for the American public.
I believe a strong VA is essential to national security,
particularly when you have a voluntary force like we have.
And everything that I'm doing
is trying to strengthen the VA system.
I think the way that you do strengthen the VA system
and you fulfill your mission
is by working closely with the private sector.
So this is a very, very difficult balance.
Much of what happens in Washington is a balance
between two political ideologies
so that you can get it right for the American public.
And so I think continually having this debate
about whether you are-- the work that you're doing
is strengthening the VA or whether it's hurting the VA
is an appropriate dialogue.
And I don't get frustrated by that at all
because I think it helps define the path forward.
And I believe that what we're doing
is we are finding that path forward
where we are both strengthening the VA
while at the same time using the private sector
to fulfill our mission and make sure the veterans
are getting the care they need.
Okay, but you-- so this is a debate.
I mean, did you expect this much debate?
You're not--you know, you were Under Secretary for Health,
you're not new to any of this.
You know the--the glacial pace that Congress can move at.
But I don't know if you expect it,
given the pressures on the Choice Program
and the funding issues, to still be having this--
this conversation in 2018.
Well, first of all,
I don't think that this is
disappointing me in terms of expectations.
I think that when you think about a system like this,
I actually feel fortunate that we have so many
knowledgeable people on Capitol Hill
and in the White House on this.
And I feel fortunate that there are so many people
who are passionate about getting this right.
I never had an expectation
that things were gonna move quickly.
But as long as they're moving in the right direction,
and I do believe they are moving in the right direction.
You know, I wish that things would move faster,
but I also know that in order to get this right
there has to be a certain amount of dialogue,
public disclosure,
getting this written in the right way,
and that process does take time.
And--and so I think that we're--
I think that we're on track with where we need to be.
Don't go away.
When we come back, see the latest weapons
from SHOT Show 2018 in Las Vegas
and go inside a cyber attack.
♪
Welcome back to Defense News Weekly.
On this week's Money Minute,
personal finance expert Jeanette Mack
offers her tips on getting a home equity loan.
Ask yourself how long you've been in your current home.
If you're like most Americans,
according to the National Association of Home Builders,
the average is 13 years.
That's a good long time.
Time enough for your home to want to show some appreciation.
Meaning you may be looking for ways
to tap into the equity in your home.
Home improvements are the number one reason
people go for equity loans.
And it's a valuable one.
Not only do you get the pleasure of living in a renovated house,
but you could also reap the rewards
of increased value when you sell.
Other ways to use equity include paying
for college tuition or advanced degrees,
paying off or consolidating debt.
Wise move since equity loans, most of the time,
have lower rates,
possibly lowering your monthly payments.
As long as the value in your home is steady,
you'll regain equity as your home's value
increases over the years
and you pay off the principal on your loan.
A home equity loan can be a smart way
to reach your financial goals.
Thanks, Jeanette, we'll see you next week.
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The need to protect cyber networks has intensified.
But for those in the defense industry
whose job it is to train the protectors,
that task can be just as daunting.
Executive Editor Jill Aitoro talked to Raytheon recently
to see how cyber professionals there
are using virtual reality to prepare.
Every day in the newspaper or any kind of media
or the things that are going around in our personal life,
the density, the complexity of cyber attacks, you know,
keep getting, you know, worse and worse.
So the cyber force really has to have, you know,
a way to look at how they prepare for a variety of threats
and be agile for those threats in a pretty dynamic way.
(Jill) That's Bill Leigher,
the Director
of Government Cyber Solutions for Raytheon.
Recently, the company took Fifth Domain
through their virtual reality trainer for cyber defense,
showing just what a cyber attack looks like to a computer.
I'm clicking this button and here I am.
And as an instructor, I can come up and I can identify--
and if you come a little closer,
you can actually identify, you know,
this code is the bad code.
(Jill) The trainer allows students
to visualize
the individual factors that comprise a cyber attack,
figure out how to properly respond,
and train on the skills needed
to prevent such an attack next time.
Because of that, they see cyber training systems,
like the one you see here,
becoming standard within the Pentagon,
but they won't be bought like traditional software.
That's gonna be a traditional, I think,
defense industry relationship.
And not the same as we think about it in a commercial space
where I may be, you know, selling a service
and I'm gonna go man your SOC for you
or something like this.
I think these will be a capability
that DoD will procure and, you know,
Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Marines,
will get trained to use it.
(Jill) To read more about
all things cyber,
be sure to visit FifthDomain.com.
And for Fifth Domain, I'm Jill Aitoro.
Typically, a rifle or a pistol
might have a dozen configurations,
but at SHOT Show 2018,
retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson
got his hands on the SIG Sauer MCX,
which has hundreds, and gives us his take.
(gunshot)
(Clint) We had the pros from SIG
tell us all about the MCX.
It's a platform that's been around for a couple of years,
has 500 configurations.
Let's hear it from them and then we'll come back to me.
So the MCX is a incredibly versatile platform.
It's a full modular battle rifle.
This rifle comes in multiple configurations.
What you're looking at here is the DMR configuration Patrol.
It has the M-LOK rigid handguard,
two-position adjustable gas valve,
rigid barrel that has improved accuracy
from the prior generation.
You still have your key feature of the MCX,
which is your foldability as well as a telescoping ability
so you can break it down into a smaller,
more compact variation to transport it
and still have the adjustability to adjust the stock length.
We have our new Matchlite Duo trigger,
which is a super lightweight, two-stage match trigger.
And the MCX is configurable between a--
a 9-inch, 11-inch, 16-inch,
and 6 and three-quarter,
between .300 Blackout and 5.56.
So you have multiple different caliber configurations
as well as also having the versatility
of being able to go back and forth
between different lengths.
So, as noted, this thing has 500 configurations.
Some of those configurations actually take place
at manufacturing level.
And then once it gets to your military unit,
you can do probably another, let's say,
200 configurations specific to the operator
that's changing out the barrels,
allowing you to chamber three different kinds of ammunition.
You can run 5.56, 7.62, or .300 Blackout,
depending on the configuration.
You can do long barrel, short barrel,
you can do different stocks.
It is a great weapon,
I had a lot of time shooting it,
and that's my two cents.
That's all we have time for this week,
but if you want to see and read more,
be sure to head over to DefenseNews.com.
Thanks for joining us and we'll see you next week.
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