WEBVTT 00:01.929 --> 00:03.929 Good afternoon , everyone . Welcome 00:03.929 --> 00:05.818 back from lunch . I know our next 00:05.818 --> 00:07.762 speaker is sure to hold everyone's 00:07.762 --> 00:09.929 attention . Lieutenant General Dimitri 00:09.929 --> 00:11.929 Henry has served as the joint staff 00:11.929 --> 00:14.151 director for Intelligence since July of 00:14.151 --> 00:17.069 2022 . In this role , Lieutenant 00:17.079 --> 00:19.246 General Henry supports the chairman of 00:19.246 --> 00:21.023 the joint Chiefs of staff , the 00:21.023 --> 00:23.520 Secretary of Defense , joint Staff and 00:23.530 --> 00:25.780 Unified Commands providing crisis 00:25.790 --> 00:27.623 intelligence support to military 00:27.623 --> 00:30.459 operations , indications and warning 00:30.469 --> 00:32.900 intelligence . Please welcome General 00:32.909 --> 00:33.360 Henry . 00:44.680 --> 00:47.979 Yeah . So , so when they , 00:48.450 --> 00:50.669 when they uh when a team asked me what 00:50.680 --> 00:52.847 uh what I wanted for , walk on music , 00:52.847 --> 00:54.791 I told them that I wanted to Darth 00:54.791 --> 00:56.624 Vader , you know , whatever that 00:56.624 --> 00:58.847 whatever you call that , uh they , they 00:58.847 --> 01:00.958 were kind of taken aback a little bit 01:00.958 --> 01:03.124 about it . And uh I said , no , no , I 01:03.124 --> 01:05.236 I'll , I'll be able to tell the story 01:05.236 --> 01:07.124 of why , why that music here in a 01:07.124 --> 01:09.236 little bit . Uh But uh for everyone , 01:09.236 --> 01:11.879 uh Thanks for uh once again for doti uh 01:11.889 --> 01:14.111 and for Doug and the team for having me 01:14.111 --> 01:16.069 out . Uh I , I get to uh leave the 01:16.080 --> 01:18.500 Pentagon . It's a good thing to be able 01:18.510 --> 01:20.566 to do it . Uh But the reason why I'm 01:20.566 --> 01:22.566 able to do it is because of defense 01:22.566 --> 01:24.566 intel enterprise and my teammates , 01:24.566 --> 01:26.919 some of whom are sitting out here right 01:26.930 --> 01:28.708 now and then the combat support 01:28.708 --> 01:31.099 agencies that support us . Uh We're a 01:31.110 --> 01:34.739 network of uh as subject matter experts . 01:34.940 --> 01:37.162 Uh Whether they be inside the uh combat 01:37.162 --> 01:39.162 support agencies or whether they be 01:39.162 --> 01:41.384 inside the services or at the combatant 01:41.384 --> 01:43.329 commands and then can't forget our 01:43.329 --> 01:45.496 partners and allies , uh many of which 01:45.500 --> 01:48.019 are here as well . Uh But uh I'll , 01:48.029 --> 01:50.029 I'll get back to the Darth Vader uh 01:50.029 --> 01:52.500 piece . But uh most of what I'm going 01:52.510 --> 01:55.400 to talk about , uh may you may be able 01:55.410 --> 01:58.220 to refer back to that uh to VR and what 01:58.230 --> 02:00.940 Vader uh represented , it represented 02:01.500 --> 02:04.559 and what he represented was really hope , 02:04.569 --> 02:08.059 right ? The joint staff J two is 02:08.070 --> 02:10.889 supposed to represent that hope , right ? 02:11.750 --> 02:13.917 Um And it , it's really weird when you 02:13.917 --> 02:17.360 think about uh the Star Wars series and 02:17.369 --> 02:19.710 what uh you know , he was supposed to 02:19.720 --> 02:22.429 do , he's supposed to bring balance to 02:22.440 --> 02:25.179 the force and I talk to my team about 02:25.190 --> 02:27.529 this all the time . My job is to bring 02:27.539 --> 02:30.860 balance and harmony to my team , my J 02:30.869 --> 02:34.250 two team uh and then into the die when 02:34.259 --> 02:36.600 it comes to the combatant command J 02:36.610 --> 02:39.169 twos and those combat support agencies , 02:39.179 --> 02:41.346 so that , you know , everything can be 02:41.346 --> 02:44.259 harmonized and in sync uh which enables 02:44.270 --> 02:46.830 the combatant commanders to have the 02:46.839 --> 02:49.089 best intelligence possible to make sure 02:49.100 --> 02:50.933 that the combat support agencies 02:50.933 --> 02:53.100 understand what the requirements are . 02:53.100 --> 02:55.322 And then to make sure that the services 02:55.322 --> 02:57.433 can help build to train man and equip 02:57.433 --> 02:59.600 in order to enable a joint force to uh 02:59.600 --> 03:01.770 perform its function . Uh again and uh 03:01.779 --> 03:04.110 to the J two's here , uh They get the 03:04.119 --> 03:06.990 benefit of all of that . So Vader was 03:07.000 --> 03:09.167 all of that as well in case you didn't 03:09.167 --> 03:12.149 know . Uh And in the end , it actually 03:12.160 --> 03:14.160 uh starts to bring balance into the 03:14.160 --> 03:16.479 force . But as a theme says , there's a 03:16.490 --> 03:19.919 lot of chaos . Uh as you watch the uh 03:19.929 --> 03:23.410 the different uh elements of Star Wars , 03:23.419 --> 03:25.850 lots of chaos . But from all of that 03:25.860 --> 03:29.619 chaos came clarity uh over time and it 03:29.630 --> 03:32.389 is uh a testament , I think to uh the 03:32.399 --> 03:35.110 defense intel enterprise and to our uh 03:35.119 --> 03:38.360 to academia to uh uh 03:38.369 --> 03:40.419 industry and to our partners who 03:40.429 --> 03:42.559 continue to stick with us even though 03:42.570 --> 03:44.681 they , we leave them scratching their 03:44.681 --> 03:46.737 heads a lot of times uh because they 03:46.737 --> 03:48.848 don't understand what we're trying to 03:48.848 --> 03:50.514 do because sometimes we don't 03:50.514 --> 03:52.737 understand what we're trying to do . Uh 03:52.737 --> 03:54.959 But nonetheless , we figure it out . Uh 03:54.959 --> 03:57.181 and through all the chaos , we start to 03:57.181 --> 03:59.403 bring in a little bit of clarity . What 03:59.403 --> 04:01.779 I'm gonna talk about today is my role 04:01.789 --> 04:05.639 in all of that uh uh chaos and how we 04:05.649 --> 04:07.830 go about trying to on a day to day 04:07.839 --> 04:10.410 basis , not just deal with the current 04:10.419 --> 04:12.759 crisis , but ensure that the joint 04:12.770 --> 04:16.049 force and a joint combined force is set 04:16.059 --> 04:18.649 up for the future uh against the pacing 04:18.660 --> 04:21.339 threat . So I'm gonna read a couple of 04:21.350 --> 04:23.940 things uh verbatim . Uh One because it 04:23.950 --> 04:25.839 makes it easier . I didn't try to 04:25.839 --> 04:27.783 memorize it . Uh But two because I 04:27.783 --> 04:29.894 don't want to miss any of the words . 04:29.894 --> 04:31.839 And the 20th chairman of the Joint 04:31.839 --> 04:33.950 Chiefs of Staff General Mark A Millie 04:33.950 --> 04:36.172 uh said this at one point uh during his 04:36.172 --> 04:39.059 tenure , he said the time is now and 04:39.070 --> 04:41.760 the window of strategic opportunity we 04:41.769 --> 04:45.350 have is closing . What we do in the 04:45.359 --> 04:47.160 next few years is going to set 04:47.170 --> 04:50.119 conditions for victory or defeat in the 04:50.130 --> 04:54.079 next war . We must adapt now 04:54.089 --> 04:56.559 in order to win the next war . And by 04:56.570 --> 05:00.109 doing so , we will deter the war from 05:00.119 --> 05:03.160 happening in the first place . So that 05:03.170 --> 05:05.337 was chairman Millie and this was early 05:05.337 --> 05:07.559 in his tenure when he came up with that 05:07.559 --> 05:09.670 and I don't think he ever backed away 05:09.670 --> 05:11.726 from that , that point . And that is 05:11.726 --> 05:13.892 the things that you're talking about , 05:13.892 --> 05:15.892 the things that we have been talked 05:15.892 --> 05:17.892 about this morning . Uh are all the 05:17.892 --> 05:20.003 things that we need to do in order to 05:20.003 --> 05:22.226 continue to maintain our advantage . Uh 05:22.226 --> 05:24.170 our warfighting advantage over our 05:24.170 --> 05:26.880 potential adversaries . And then um I 05:26.890 --> 05:29.119 was out visiting Indo Paycom and 05:29.130 --> 05:32.640 Admiral Aquilino and his team and , and , 05:32.649 --> 05:36.010 and most visits I get to uh have a have 05:36.019 --> 05:38.200 a session with the combatant commander 05:38.380 --> 05:40.491 kind of get their thoughts on what uh 05:40.491 --> 05:42.549 what it is that concerns them , but 05:42.559 --> 05:44.615 specifically what are their concerns 05:44.615 --> 05:46.989 about how the defense intel enterprise 05:47.000 --> 05:49.290 is helping support their J two . And 05:49.299 --> 05:51.640 therefore his decision making as a 05:51.649 --> 05:54.959 combatant commander and as Admiral 05:54.970 --> 05:58.600 Admiral Colino is uh want to do , um , 05:58.609 --> 06:00.553 he beat me up pretty bad about the 06:00.553 --> 06:03.160 things that uh could be done better , 06:03.260 --> 06:05.316 not things that weren't being done , 06:05.316 --> 06:07.538 things are being done , but they're not 06:07.538 --> 06:09.760 being done at scale . They're not being 06:09.760 --> 06:13.109 done at pace . Uh And his concern is 06:13.119 --> 06:15.175 that , uh , at some point , we would 06:15.175 --> 06:18.079 find ourselves uh in this competition , 06:18.100 --> 06:21.179 uh playing catch up and in some areas , 06:21.190 --> 06:23.779 I think , uh you may find that we may 06:23.790 --> 06:26.160 and well may well be , uh playing catch 06:26.170 --> 06:28.829 up . Uh But in some other areas where 06:28.839 --> 06:31.200 we are dominant , we certainly do not 06:31.209 --> 06:33.690 want to , uh , have that gap , uh , 06:33.700 --> 06:37.250 narrowed and we discussed that for 06:37.260 --> 06:39.730 several minutes . And then he asked me 06:39.739 --> 06:41.683 what I thought , I told him what I 06:41.683 --> 06:43.572 thought . Then I told him what we 06:43.572 --> 06:45.940 assess as a , as a joint staff J two 06:46.070 --> 06:48.670 and the discussions that I have , uh at 06:48.679 --> 06:51.380 the time with , uh General Millie and 06:51.390 --> 06:53.540 now with General Brown about war 06:53.549 --> 06:56.339 fighting and about never uh losing our 06:56.350 --> 06:59.220 competitive edge uh to fight and win in 06:59.230 --> 07:01.600 conflict . You'll hear us talk about 07:01.609 --> 07:03.776 deterrence , you'll hear us talk about 07:03.776 --> 07:05.776 competition , you'll hear all those 07:05.776 --> 07:07.500 words , but in the end , every 07:07.510 --> 07:09.288 discussion that I have with the 07:09.288 --> 07:11.399 chairman and the Secretary of Defense 07:11.399 --> 07:13.540 when it comes to the future is about 07:13.549 --> 07:15.549 war fighting and about fighting and 07:15.549 --> 07:17.493 winning in a contested environment 07:17.493 --> 07:19.730 where every domain is challenged where 07:19.739 --> 07:22.989 every uh place on the globe is at risk . 07:23.250 --> 07:25.472 And we have to be able to fight through 07:25.472 --> 07:27.583 that . We have to be uh able to fight 07:27.583 --> 07:29.806 in a disconnected environment . We have 07:29.806 --> 07:31.972 to be able to fight uh in uh any climb 07:31.972 --> 07:35.690 and place my Marine Corps uh motto , uh 07:35.700 --> 07:38.410 and so on and so forth . So Admiral 07:38.420 --> 07:40.329 Aquilino was , you know , he , he 07:40.339 --> 07:42.660 acknowledged that said , good , keep 07:42.670 --> 07:44.850 the focus . And then he said these 07:44.859 --> 07:47.149 words to me and those words really 07:47.160 --> 07:50.429 shook me uh somewhat to my core . And 07:50.440 --> 07:52.607 if you've ever worked with me , that's 07:52.607 --> 07:54.718 probably a hard thing to imagine that 07:54.718 --> 07:57.540 at my core would be shaken . Um Because 07:57.890 --> 08:00.959 one , I , I uh I've seen a lot and two , 08:01.429 --> 08:03.540 you know , I think I've heard a lot . 08:03.540 --> 08:06.850 So Admiral Aquilino when we got up to 08:06.859 --> 08:09.339 leave , when I got up to leave , he 08:09.350 --> 08:12.250 looked at me and he said Dimitri , I 08:12.260 --> 08:14.809 feel like it's September 10th out here 08:16.359 --> 08:19.670 and everyone else doesn't know 08:19.679 --> 08:22.880 September 11th is coming and that's 08:22.890 --> 08:25.529 because of the pacing threat . These 08:25.540 --> 08:27.707 are my words now and that's because of 08:27.707 --> 08:30.059 the pacing threat and what he's faced 08:30.070 --> 08:32.880 with and what his organization and that 08:32.890 --> 08:35.001 combatant command is faced with every 08:35.001 --> 08:37.099 single day . Uh for those of you who 08:37.109 --> 08:40.059 watch uh this pacing threat , realize 08:40.070 --> 08:41.903 that the scope and scale of what 08:41.903 --> 08:43.903 they're doing is only progressing . 08:43.903 --> 08:46.820 They continue to take our technology uh 08:46.830 --> 08:48.719 in some cases , improve on it and 08:48.719 --> 08:50.941 others just go ahead and use it because 08:50.941 --> 08:52.969 it's tried and true . And uh that's 08:52.979 --> 08:54.923 where a lot of what you're doing , 08:54.923 --> 08:57.146 whether it's uh on the security side or 08:57.146 --> 08:59.257 whether it's on the transport side or 08:59.257 --> 09:01.479 whether it's on the application side or 09:01.479 --> 09:03.646 whether it's on all the other analysis 09:03.646 --> 09:06.440 is being done . Uh That's what uh was 09:06.450 --> 09:09.869 concern of Admiral Aquilino and it is 09:09.880 --> 09:12.630 definitely a concern of my boss uh who 09:12.640 --> 09:15.400 just took over and uh sat me down the 09:15.409 --> 09:19.049 first week and we went over uh the war 09:19.059 --> 09:21.760 fighting concept uh that we have right 09:21.770 --> 09:24.530 now , uh joint uh war fighting concept 09:24.539 --> 09:28.400 3.0 And what he needed from me in order 09:28.409 --> 09:31.380 to help make that concept a reality uh 09:31.390 --> 09:34.010 from an intel perspective . And some of 09:34.020 --> 09:36.242 the things that I talked with him about 09:36.242 --> 09:38.520 uh on that day that evening , actually , 09:38.820 --> 09:41.280 uh I'll share with you today and I 09:41.289 --> 09:43.567 think most of it you've heard , I mean , 09:43.567 --> 09:45.622 I sat here this morning and I got to 09:45.622 --> 09:48.539 hear that the speakers and most of what 09:48.549 --> 09:50.929 I'm gonna say is just in a condensed 09:50.940 --> 09:53.107 form , but they talked about it . They 09:53.107 --> 09:55.162 touched on pretty much everything in 09:55.162 --> 09:57.162 there . Uh But what was clear to me 09:57.162 --> 09:59.329 during my discussion with the chairman 09:59.329 --> 10:02.349 is that it's the people right now that 10:02.359 --> 10:05.250 give us truly our advantage . It's our 10:05.260 --> 10:07.371 innovation , which was talked about . 10:07.710 --> 10:11.530 It's our attitude . It's our ability to 10:11.539 --> 10:13.719 think . It's our ability to innovate 10:13.869 --> 10:17.489 all of those things . But all the other 10:17.500 --> 10:21.059 competitors also have people . But the 10:21.070 --> 10:23.126 one thing that they don't have , and 10:23.126 --> 10:25.400 this is a truism today and we need to 10:25.409 --> 10:28.000 make it that way in the future is they 10:28.010 --> 10:30.232 don't have the allies and partners that 10:30.232 --> 10:32.570 we do . And I know there's a panel this 10:32.580 --> 10:34.729 uh this afternoon , uh that's gonna 10:34.739 --> 10:37.359 talk to that , but it is truly our 10:37.369 --> 10:39.929 advantage is our people and then the 10:39.940 --> 10:41.996 people that come with our allies and 10:41.996 --> 10:44.849 partners in that partnership , how we 10:44.859 --> 10:47.409 are able to operationalize . That is 10:47.419 --> 10:50.590 something that I think is uh me needs 10:50.599 --> 10:52.710 more examining and I'll talk a little 10:52.710 --> 10:55.309 bit about that as well . Uh Because the 10:55.320 --> 10:58.880 idea that we wait until crisis to occur 10:58.890 --> 11:01.239 in order to make sure that we can share , 11:01.359 --> 11:03.359 make sure that we have processes in 11:03.359 --> 11:05.248 place , make sure that our people 11:05.248 --> 11:08.710 understand how uh fast , how much of a 11:08.719 --> 11:10.775 scope or scale that our partners can 11:10.775 --> 11:12.969 deal with . At one time in my mind , 11:12.979 --> 11:15.035 it's , it's too late at that point . 11:15.109 --> 11:17.220 Certainly . Now we deal with it , but 11:17.220 --> 11:19.330 we're not facing a peer . We're not 11:19.340 --> 11:21.469 facing the pa the chase , the pacing 11:21.479 --> 11:24.789 challenge we're facing right now , 11:24.799 --> 11:26.799 tangentially , we're looking at the 11:26.799 --> 11:28.799 Russians in Ukraine . That's not us 11:28.799 --> 11:30.966 engaged with the Russians . That's our 11:30.966 --> 11:33.132 partners in Ukraine , engaged with the 11:33.132 --> 11:35.132 Russians . So we can learn , we can 11:35.132 --> 11:37.077 adapt and then we can implement uh 11:37.077 --> 11:39.270 based on that same thing in Israel , 11:39.280 --> 11:42.669 Israel and Hamas there in the Gaza . Uh 11:42.679 --> 11:45.030 as that unfolds we're continuing to 11:45.039 --> 11:47.229 learn but that we won't have that 11:47.239 --> 11:49.650 luxury . Uh If we're challenged with 11:49.659 --> 11:51.960 the facing threat and our partners and 11:51.969 --> 11:54.830 allies don't have time for us to put 11:54.840 --> 11:56.950 bandaids on and then come to some 11:56.960 --> 12:00.210 resolution as that uh contest uh heats 12:00.219 --> 12:04.190 up and 12:04.200 --> 12:07.530 one thing for the dous uh team , thank 12:07.539 --> 12:09.872 you for putting me on right after child . 12:09.929 --> 12:12.780 Um Usually I'm the one that kind of 12:12.789 --> 12:14.678 sends you off to child . So I , I 12:14.678 --> 12:16.956 thought that was a challenge . So Doug , 12:16.956 --> 12:19.140 where , where are you ? I accept that 12:19.150 --> 12:21.206 challenge , but I'm pretty sure some 12:21.206 --> 12:23.483 folks are gonna sleep through this one . 12:23.483 --> 12:25.539 Uh One thing I wanna say though is , 12:25.539 --> 12:27.650 you know , when the panel was up here 12:27.650 --> 12:30.119 with the director and uh with uh PDD 12:30.130 --> 12:33.010 and I , uh they got to say something 12:33.020 --> 12:35.076 and I wanna be able to say something 12:35.076 --> 12:37.131 too . I wanna be able to say some of 12:37.131 --> 12:39.242 the stuff that they said , right ? So 12:39.242 --> 12:41.353 one of the things was , you know , if 12:41.353 --> 12:43.353 you could do something , what was , 12:43.353 --> 12:45.520 what was somebody told to you that you 12:45.520 --> 12:47.742 all remember ? And I wanna Doug , is it 12:47.742 --> 12:47.609 OK ? I wanna answer that , you know , 12:47.619 --> 12:49.786 because I don't , I , I wasn't invited 12:49.786 --> 12:52.479 to sit , sit on the panel . It's like , 12:52.700 --> 12:55.010 and I Omaha is next year . Ok . I 12:55.020 --> 12:57.076 wasn't invited to sit on the panel , 12:57.076 --> 12:59.020 but I wanna answer that question . 12:59.020 --> 13:01.131 Right . I wanna make sure people know 13:01.131 --> 13:03.298 that some people actually told me some 13:03.298 --> 13:06.440 stuff too and it stuck with me too . So , 13:06.770 --> 13:10.000 so it's very simple , um , very simple 13:10.010 --> 13:12.280 what was told to me and , uh , all 13:12.289 --> 13:14.400 jokes aside , I mean , I had a lot of 13:14.400 --> 13:16.567 things that were told to me . But this 13:16.567 --> 13:18.969 one I think is particularly um uh on 13:18.979 --> 13:21.989 point for what it is , Doug and his 13:22.000 --> 13:24.109 team and the rest of the cio s out 13:24.119 --> 13:27.030 there are trying to accomplish and it's 13:27.039 --> 13:30.140 very simple , never walk past a problem . 13:31.450 --> 13:33.506 And I can tell you right now some of 13:33.506 --> 13:35.890 the discussions that we've had today 13:36.440 --> 13:38.760 last year at Dous the year before and 13:38.770 --> 13:40.979 other , other times , other venues , 13:41.010 --> 13:43.580 other different uh discussions about it , 13:43.719 --> 13:47.299 we have walked past problems . And 13:47.309 --> 13:51.239 right now , if you believe in what 13:51.340 --> 13:54.900 the PR C is describing , what they say , 13:55.020 --> 13:57.020 they want to be able to do what she 13:57.020 --> 13:59.799 wants to be able to do by 2027 time is 13:59.809 --> 14:03.780 of the essence . So if we don't solve 14:03.789 --> 14:07.409 problems , uh now , then we will be 14:07.419 --> 14:10.719 unable to engage in a way that allows 14:10.729 --> 14:13.750 us to be uh competitive in the future 14:14.130 --> 14:16.309 and for , for competitive , for me and 14:16.320 --> 14:18.950 everyone uh in the defense intel 14:18.960 --> 14:21.127 enterprise and in , in the joint force 14:21.127 --> 14:23.419 and the combined force is to fight and 14:23.429 --> 14:26.890 win . The deterrence part is amusing to 14:26.900 --> 14:30.700 me , right . The way to deter someone 14:30.710 --> 14:32.969 is to be able to kick their and not 14:32.979 --> 14:34.979 have to worry about it . Right . So 14:34.979 --> 14:36.979 they don't ever challenge you , but 14:36.979 --> 14:39.559 we're being challenged in ways uh that 14:39.570 --> 14:41.679 are unprecedented uh when you really 14:41.690 --> 14:43.523 think about it and it's not just 14:43.523 --> 14:45.690 economically , we're being challenging 14:45.690 --> 14:47.789 some of the domains uh that we had 14:47.799 --> 14:50.690 ownership of and actually uh developed 14:50.909 --> 14:52.965 and , and made them into domains for 14:52.965 --> 14:56.150 war fighting . So as we go through this 14:56.229 --> 14:58.451 and as I bring the panelists up here in 14:58.451 --> 15:00.673 a , in a few minutes , think about that 15:00.673 --> 15:02.896 and think about what it is we're trying 15:02.896 --> 15:04.951 to do and more importantly for those 15:04.951 --> 15:07.173 CIO S out there and those folks who are 15:07.173 --> 15:09.340 trying to have a resilient network and 15:09.340 --> 15:12.320 a way of doing things uh as far as it 15:12.330 --> 15:14.849 goes , uh We , we have got to stop 15:14.859 --> 15:17.026 walking past those problems and we got 15:17.026 --> 15:18.970 to solve those problems . We gotta 15:18.970 --> 15:22.390 prioritize them , figure out how to uh 15:22.400 --> 15:25.320 to deal with them , then we have to 15:25.330 --> 15:27.630 fund it and then we have to actually 15:27.640 --> 15:30.049 execute and we have to continually 15:30.059 --> 15:32.359 update and upgrade our , our me , our 15:32.369 --> 15:35.099 methods and way forward . So the 15:35.109 --> 15:38.299 strategic environment , uh almost every , 15:38.309 --> 15:40.500 every person that came up here , even 15:40.510 --> 15:42.580 the CIO talked about the strategic 15:42.590 --> 15:44.960 environment from a , from a competitive 15:44.969 --> 15:47.619 standpoint , whether it's the PR C as a 15:47.630 --> 15:49.519 pacing threat or whether it's the 15:49.519 --> 15:52.320 Russians as the acute uh threat , which 15:52.330 --> 15:54.552 they certainly are right now or whether 15:54.552 --> 15:56.386 it's the D pr K who's developing 15:56.386 --> 15:58.809 capability to strike the homeland in 15:58.820 --> 16:01.659 ways that uh 20 years ago was not even 16:01.669 --> 16:04.909 thought about uh to the Iranians and 16:04.919 --> 16:06.808 the mischief that they're causing 16:06.808 --> 16:09.130 around the Middle East . Uh , and to uh 16:09.140 --> 16:12.210 ve os who right now are trying to take 16:12.219 --> 16:15.099 advantage of some of the chaos that is 16:15.109 --> 16:18.609 ensuing inside the levant and other 16:18.619 --> 16:21.330 places around the globe . And then you 16:21.340 --> 16:23.451 still have everything else . You have 16:23.451 --> 16:25.507 to deal with climate change . Uh The 16:25.507 --> 16:28.159 rise of technology . A I all of the 16:28.169 --> 16:30.225 things that we've been talking about 16:30.489 --> 16:33.599 the competition for resources , uh 16:33.619 --> 16:36.440 whether it be water or whether it be 16:36.450 --> 16:39.849 food or whether it be people , we're in 16:39.859 --> 16:42.770 competition right now . All of us who 16:42.780 --> 16:45.113 represent these different organizations , 16:45.113 --> 16:47.349 agencies , countries are in competition 16:47.359 --> 16:49.590 for subject matter . Experts are for 16:49.599 --> 16:51.900 those folks with the cap capability uh 16:51.909 --> 16:54.131 to become subject matter experts and we 16:54.131 --> 16:56.429 wanna hold on to them , maintain them 16:56.690 --> 16:59.080 and grow them so that they can lead us 16:59.229 --> 17:02.190 to a better future . All of that is on 17:02.200 --> 17:04.469 top of everything else is going on as 17:04.479 --> 17:06.880 we think about the future we're dealing 17:06.890 --> 17:09.750 with today , the crisis of the day . 17:10.530 --> 17:12.697 And I was told that something happened 17:12.697 --> 17:14.697 earlier today . I haven't seen it , 17:14.697 --> 17:16.752 haven't because I have an enterprise 17:16.752 --> 17:18.974 out there that I work with that is back 17:18.974 --> 17:21.030 there at the Pentagon and across the 17:21.030 --> 17:23.030 globe , taking care of whatever the 17:23.030 --> 17:25.380 issue may have been . Uh And so we can 17:25.390 --> 17:28.349 do that , but in the future , if it's 17:28.359 --> 17:30.770 against a pacing threat , uh I think 17:30.780 --> 17:32.780 it's a whole different story unless 17:32.780 --> 17:34.836 we've prepared for it , unless we've 17:34.836 --> 17:37.002 moved out in a way that's in sync with 17:37.002 --> 17:39.540 our partners and allies uh in a way 17:39.550 --> 17:42.119 that allows them to bring to bear what 17:42.130 --> 17:44.449 capabilities they have and what uh 17:44.459 --> 17:46.626 innovation they have and what thoughts 17:46.626 --> 17:48.650 they have in order to have a more 17:48.660 --> 17:51.010 coherent force in order to deal with 17:51.020 --> 17:53.076 the problems that have cropped up or 17:53.076 --> 17:55.189 will crop up around the globe . Uh 17:55.199 --> 17:58.359 That's in a nutshell . The discussion 17:58.369 --> 18:00.369 that I had with the chairman of the 18:00.369 --> 18:02.591 Joint Chiefs of staff about a couple of 18:02.591 --> 18:05.270 days uh after he took over rightfully . 18:05.280 --> 18:08.270 So the first uh staff member that he 18:08.280 --> 18:11.130 talked to in that setting was his intel 18:11.140 --> 18:14.329 officer . And what it was that Intel 18:14.339 --> 18:17.300 needed to do in order for us to be set 18:17.329 --> 18:20.260 and ready to compete . And if uh 18:20.270 --> 18:23.369 competition should fail and deterrent 18:23.380 --> 18:25.602 should fail , that we have to fight and 18:25.602 --> 18:27.949 win . And we had a really good 18:27.959 --> 18:30.349 discussion about that . And one of the , 18:30.359 --> 18:32.709 the biggest pieces of that discussion 18:32.969 --> 18:35.469 was our ability to operate in a 18:35.479 --> 18:39.109 contested environment uh against a peer 18:39.119 --> 18:41.650 near peer threat that can also 18:41.660 --> 18:44.290 challenge us in the in every domain . 18:44.579 --> 18:47.810 And it specifically deny us in the area 18:47.819 --> 18:49.900 of our , uh right now , I think our 18:49.910 --> 18:52.079 greatest uh capability and that is our 18:52.089 --> 18:54.949 ability to command and control without 18:54.959 --> 18:57.126 being able to command and control . Uh 18:57.126 --> 18:58.848 We're gonna , we're gonna find 18:58.848 --> 19:01.015 ourselves in a , in a hurt locker in a 19:01.015 --> 19:03.619 way that we've never been before and 19:03.630 --> 19:05.741 there's capability out there now that 19:05.741 --> 19:07.908 puts that at risk and for those of you 19:07.908 --> 19:10.719 who are architecting and designing and 19:10.729 --> 19:12.729 trying to determine how we're gonna 19:12.729 --> 19:15.349 have a resilient uh inf infrastructure 19:15.359 --> 19:18.189 for our it capability and how it's 19:18.199 --> 19:20.579 going to enable war fighting . Uh We 19:20.589 --> 19:22.800 have our work cut out for us . Uh And 19:22.810 --> 19:24.866 for those of us who wear the uniform 19:24.866 --> 19:26.699 and for those of us who tell the 19:26.699 --> 19:29.050 uniform wearers what to do , the policy 19:29.060 --> 19:31.116 folks and the other leadership , the 19:31.116 --> 19:33.171 civilian leadership , we have got to 19:33.180 --> 19:36.410 make sure that Doug and his peers have 19:36.420 --> 19:39.489 the guidance , have the resources and 19:39.500 --> 19:41.500 everything that's necessary and the 19:41.500 --> 19:44.449 requirements for them to make sure that 19:44.459 --> 19:46.570 that disconnected environment that we 19:46.570 --> 19:48.650 keep talking about . So what's 19:48.660 --> 19:51.229 disconnected , it works , we're able to 19:51.239 --> 19:53.959 fight through it . Uh And we owe them 19:53.969 --> 19:56.459 that uh as a , as certainly as AJ two 19:56.469 --> 19:59.219 representing the joint staff and the , 19:59.229 --> 20:01.650 and the combat command J twos , we owe 20:01.660 --> 20:03.827 them that we owe them . Hey , here are 20:03.827 --> 20:05.993 the requirements , here's the priority 20:05.993 --> 20:07.993 of those requirements and here's uh 20:07.993 --> 20:09.993 what we're trying to do when you do 20:09.993 --> 20:12.479 realize this capability in a way that's 20:12.489 --> 20:14.378 gonna make us much more than just 20:14.378 --> 20:16.433 capable . It's gonna make us able to 20:16.433 --> 20:18.267 fight and win uh through that uh 20:18.267 --> 20:21.569 contested environment . Our 20:21.579 --> 20:24.089 strategic objectives still remain the 20:24.099 --> 20:26.439 same . In spite of all of that chaos , 20:26.449 --> 20:28.449 in spite of all of those challenges 20:28.449 --> 20:30.338 that I just talked about uh still 20:30.338 --> 20:32.505 remains the same and certainly for the 20:32.505 --> 20:34.338 United States , number one is to 20:34.338 --> 20:37.660 protect the homeland . That is one that 20:37.670 --> 20:39.392 uh I think is near and dear to 20:39.392 --> 20:42.459 everyone's heart here uh and our allies 20:42.469 --> 20:44.609 and partners . And when we say that 20:44.619 --> 20:46.563 we're talking about our allies and 20:46.563 --> 20:48.786 partners as well , they have to protect 20:48.786 --> 20:51.099 their homeland . And that means a lot 20:51.109 --> 20:54.119 if you're a cio uh fighting through a 20:54.130 --> 20:56.420 contested environment because that's 20:56.430 --> 20:58.729 going to start from home port all the 20:58.739 --> 21:00.640 way through uh through line of 21:00.650 --> 21:04.119 departure into some combat zone or in 21:04.130 --> 21:06.420 some airspace , it's going to start , 21:06.430 --> 21:08.652 it's already started by the way , right 21:08.652 --> 21:10.874 here in the United States and in our uh 21:10.874 --> 21:13.719 partners countries as well as we 21:13.729 --> 21:15.951 continue to see our infrastructure held 21:15.951 --> 21:18.173 at risk . And we understand the dangers 21:18.173 --> 21:21.910 associated with that . We need to deter 21:21.920 --> 21:24.920 strategic attack . I think uh if you're 21:24.930 --> 21:28.020 stratcom , uh and I was with Stratcom 21:28.030 --> 21:30.252 as uh we were discussing with the , the 21:30.252 --> 21:32.939 chairman , some of the uh uh issues 21:32.949 --> 21:35.116 that stratcom has with our indications 21:35.116 --> 21:37.282 and warning and our ability to defense 21:37.282 --> 21:39.780 intel enterprise and the rest of the IC 21:39.790 --> 21:41.901 for that matters , ability to provide 21:41.901 --> 21:45.660 ample warning time . And then I 21:45.670 --> 21:47.503 said it a couple of times , I'll 21:47.503 --> 21:49.726 continue to say it if all of that fails 21:49.726 --> 21:51.781 and we have to be able to prevail in 21:51.781 --> 21:53.892 conflict . All of that is happening . 21:54.199 --> 21:56.540 Uh At the same time that we're trying 21:56.550 --> 21:59.540 to modernize and advance what we have . 21:59.979 --> 22:02.579 Uh Doug talked about that you saw the , 22:02.589 --> 22:05.579 the film uh that was played , that kind 22:05.589 --> 22:08.969 of got at that . Uh But we're , we're 22:08.979 --> 22:11.640 in uh supporting a couple of conflicts 22:11.650 --> 22:14.359 right now . Uh while at the same time 22:14.369 --> 22:16.989 trying to move the joint force and 22:17.000 --> 22:19.770 combine force far into the future so 22:19.780 --> 22:22.589 that it can fight and win . Uh But it's 22:22.599 --> 22:25.130 very difficult task to do and without 22:25.140 --> 22:27.084 guidance and without uh having the 22:27.084 --> 22:29.140 right processes in place and without 22:29.140 --> 22:31.609 having the right people in place and 22:31.619 --> 22:33.841 the right training in place , it's very 22:33.841 --> 22:36.939 difficult to do . I already talked 22:36.949 --> 22:39.171 about , I , I wrote on here while I was 22:39.171 --> 22:41.227 sitting here , hardly able to hear . 22:41.227 --> 22:43.560 And I , I , I've got to tell this story . 22:43.560 --> 22:45.727 I got seven minutes , but I gotta tell 22:45.727 --> 22:47.782 this story . So , before I came here 22:47.782 --> 22:51.219 yesterday , I had um I was gonna go 22:51.229 --> 22:53.451 into the office , I usually go into the 22:53.451 --> 22:55.780 office about 5515 . And then we have a 22:55.790 --> 22:57.901 six o'clock that uh Admiral Whitworth 22:57.901 --> 23:00.880 started a couple of years ago . Uh but 23:00.890 --> 23:03.420 I was gonna go do that and I decided I , 23:03.430 --> 23:05.597 you know , I have a staff , I have all 23:05.597 --> 23:07.874 that . I trust them do that . So I was , 23:07.874 --> 23:10.000 I stayed at home , I vacuum , I did 23:10.010 --> 23:12.066 what you do and I was waiting on his 23:12.066 --> 23:14.709 Uber and my ear started itching . So I 23:14.719 --> 23:16.941 decided to do what you shouldn't do . I 23:16.941 --> 23:19.479 stuck a Q tip in my ear , right . And 23:19.489 --> 23:21.545 when I did that , I pushed something 23:21.545 --> 23:24.020 deeper into my ear and I could not hear 23:24.030 --> 23:26.141 the whole time I was sitting here , I 23:26.141 --> 23:28.363 couldn't hear anything out of his ear . 23:28.363 --> 23:30.363 And uh so my staff was , you know , 23:30.363 --> 23:32.530 frantically laughing at me uh and also 23:32.530 --> 23:34.697 trying to help me , but they got the , 23:34.697 --> 23:38.420 the EMT or uh the , yeah , the EMT to 23:38.430 --> 23:40.652 uh you know , flush the thing out of my 23:40.652 --> 23:42.763 ear , it did work and so I can hear . 23:42.763 --> 23:45.000 But while I was uh laying there talking 23:45.010 --> 23:47.343 to her as she was doing this , you know , 23:47.343 --> 23:50.170 I was thinking about what is it truly 23:50.180 --> 23:53.319 is a role of the joint staff J two in 23:53.329 --> 23:55.496 all of this , right ? Why am I here at 23:55.496 --> 23:58.569 Dous uh in a , in a room full of folks 23:58.579 --> 24:00.468 that are really uh subject matter 24:00.468 --> 24:03.069 experts , very technical . Uh When I'm 24:03.079 --> 24:05.780 certainly not . Uh and it , you know , 24:05.790 --> 24:09.109 for me though , it's about guidance , 24:09.660 --> 24:11.900 having , making sure that Doug and , 24:12.079 --> 24:14.709 and the rest of the dug at the CIO s 24:14.719 --> 24:16.869 that are out there , making sure that 24:16.880 --> 24:19.102 they have the guidance that they need , 24:19.102 --> 24:20.713 make sure that they have the 24:20.713 --> 24:22.769 prioritization that they need , make 24:22.769 --> 24:22.589 sure they have the requirements that 24:22.599 --> 24:24.599 they need and the funding that they 24:24.599 --> 24:27.239 need , which was discussed . Uh So , 24:27.250 --> 24:29.083 you know , I was laying there in 24:29.083 --> 24:31.306 between , you know , her doing stuff to 24:31.306 --> 24:33.528 my ear and I thought , ok , well , that 24:33.528 --> 24:35.750 makes sense . That , that makes sense . 24:35.750 --> 24:37.750 But what is the , what is the joint 24:37.750 --> 24:39.806 staff J two still doing here besides 24:39.806 --> 24:42.028 not sitting on the panel and being part 24:42.028 --> 24:45.849 of the fireside chat and also being 24:45.859 --> 24:49.459 after lunch . Um That's a whole another 24:49.469 --> 24:52.510 story though . But the , the other 24:52.520 --> 24:56.060 thing that struck me was um no matter 24:56.069 --> 24:58.400 where I go , I always talk about people 24:58.640 --> 25:00.810 and I always talk about if we get that 25:00.819 --> 25:04.140 right . Uh Then even the flaws in what 25:04.150 --> 25:07.089 we do from a technological standpoint , 25:07.339 --> 25:09.689 whether it's sip cop and making sure 25:09.699 --> 25:11.866 that that's actually something that we 25:11.866 --> 25:14.189 can use globally or whether it's the 25:14.199 --> 25:18.060 backbone uh JW uh highway that all of 25:18.069 --> 25:20.050 this information uh runs over and 25:20.060 --> 25:23.050 resides or whether it's at the , at the 25:23.060 --> 25:25.310 pointy edge of the spear disconnected . 25:25.750 --> 25:27.806 Uh It's gonna be the people that are 25:27.806 --> 25:31.339 gonna have to make us um decisive in , 25:31.349 --> 25:33.739 in battle and , and uh get us that 25:33.750 --> 25:37.569 final yard . So when I bring the 25:37.579 --> 25:39.579 panelists up , one of the questions 25:39.579 --> 25:41.635 I'll ask him will be something about 25:41.635 --> 25:44.650 people that I don't have on here . Um 25:44.660 --> 25:46.771 You , you guys gave me some questions 25:46.771 --> 25:48.771 to think about . Uh I thought about 25:48.771 --> 25:50.993 them and there's , there's one on there 25:50.993 --> 25:52.938 that I wanna make sure that I talk 25:52.938 --> 25:55.049 about and that the people . Uh but so 25:55.049 --> 25:58.020 for people , we all know that we have 25:58.030 --> 26:00.141 great people . We , we say it all the 26:00.141 --> 26:03.300 time . Uh we , we laud them but we have 26:03.310 --> 26:06.020 to make sure that they have the right 26:06.030 --> 26:08.819 training , right education . They have 26:08.829 --> 26:10.996 the right understanding of where we're 26:10.996 --> 26:13.051 trying to go so they can help us get 26:13.051 --> 26:16.329 there . I'm convinced that the answer 26:16.339 --> 26:18.339 to any of the problems that we have 26:18.339 --> 26:20.500 exist in someone's mind and that 26:20.510 --> 26:22.680 someone typically doesn't understand 26:22.689 --> 26:25.069 the problem that we have and how and 26:25.079 --> 26:27.246 what it is we're trying to solve . I , 26:27.246 --> 26:30.160 I would submit to you that if I wrote 26:30.170 --> 26:33.949 down um If I were to go to the J twos 26:33.959 --> 26:36.181 and say , hey , write down the problems 26:36.181 --> 26:38.292 that you have , uh the problems would 26:38.292 --> 26:40.979 be very similar , but the way you could 26:40.989 --> 26:43.410 convey them would be very different and 26:43.420 --> 26:45.689 you could get a different answer for 26:45.699 --> 26:47.866 each one of them , even though they're 26:47.866 --> 26:50.270 very similar . And if you're the cio or 26:50.280 --> 26:52.280 if you're trying to solve something 26:52.329 --> 26:55.079 that's technical in nature , uh while 26:55.089 --> 26:57.200 at the same time understanding how to 26:57.200 --> 26:59.256 enable a war fight , uh If you don't 26:59.256 --> 27:01.256 have the , the guidance , you don't 27:01.256 --> 27:03.300 have the processes , procedures in 27:03.310 --> 27:05.650 place that allow you to quickly adapt 27:05.819 --> 27:09.180 quickly uh shift resources to where it 27:09.189 --> 27:11.300 needs to go in order to , for them to 27:11.300 --> 27:13.245 be effective . Uh then we're gonna 27:13.245 --> 27:15.739 continue to be behind and we won't have 27:15.750 --> 27:18.089 walked past the problem . Uh , we will 27:18.099 --> 27:20.321 have not recognized that we walk past a 27:20.321 --> 27:22.709 problem , which is probably worse than 27:22.719 --> 27:25.520 just walking past it . At least when 27:25.530 --> 27:27.641 you see a problem , you can walk past 27:27.641 --> 27:29.808 it for those of you who do and realize 27:29.808 --> 27:32.030 that you walk past a problem and you're 27:32.030 --> 27:34.197 gonna come back and fix it later . You 27:34.197 --> 27:36.419 hardly ever go back and fix it . But at 27:36.419 --> 27:38.586 least , you know , when somebody falls 27:38.586 --> 27:38.380 in that hole and break their leg , 27:38.430 --> 27:40.597 you'll know . Oh yeah , I , I remember 27:40.597 --> 27:42.763 that hole . It was there still there . 27:42.763 --> 27:44.874 Apparently somebody broke their leg , 27:44.874 --> 27:48.660 somebody else will fix it . Um I 27:48.670 --> 27:50.781 got a couple more things that I wanna 27:50.781 --> 27:52.726 talk about that . Uh I have to one 27:52.726 --> 27:54.837 because I'm the joint staff J two and 27:54.837 --> 27:57.699 they paid my , my uh way here . So I 27:57.709 --> 27:59.987 have to say more about the joint staff . 28:01.150 --> 28:04.839 So the joint staff right now uh does 28:05.290 --> 28:08.530 some experimentation uh that's 28:08.540 --> 28:12.319 looking at mission sets and 28:12.329 --> 28:16.020 capability as opposed to uh the other 28:16.030 --> 28:18.252 things that we normally experiment on , 28:18.252 --> 28:20.359 which is the vice we're looking at . 28:20.369 --> 28:22.536 How do you do mission threads ? How do 28:22.536 --> 28:25.189 you actually do uh go out and , and 28:25.199 --> 28:27.880 complete a kill chain and then all that 28:27.890 --> 28:29.834 other stuff , the good stuff , the 28:29.834 --> 28:32.001 stuff that technologists uh can figure 28:32.001 --> 28:34.001 out , they go in and say , well , I 28:34.001 --> 28:36.057 understand what you want to do . And 28:36.057 --> 28:39.739 now I know how to construct the network , 28:39.750 --> 28:42.260 construct the tools in order for you to 28:42.270 --> 28:45.439 do that . I understand uh how latency 28:45.449 --> 28:48.500 plays into it as opposed to uh the way 28:48.510 --> 28:50.800 I thought it did . So we're doing that 28:50.810 --> 28:53.032 now , the guide experiments , if you've 28:53.032 --> 28:56.319 uh heard those global information 28:56.329 --> 28:57.996 dominance experiments , we're 28:57.996 --> 29:00.162 conducting those , I think we're up to 29:00.162 --> 29:02.218 guide eight right now . And it's all 29:02.218 --> 29:04.385 about missions and mission threads and 29:04.385 --> 29:06.670 how you actually get at a problem . And 29:06.680 --> 29:08.902 then the folks that do technology , the 29:08.902 --> 29:10.569 folks that build networks and 29:10.569 --> 29:12.680 architecture are there and part of it 29:12.755 --> 29:14.811 and they get to see what's trying to 29:14.811 --> 29:17.635 happen and then tell the community how 29:17.645 --> 29:20.395 you're going to enable that with a tool 29:20.405 --> 29:23.505 with a network with whatever it is 29:23.515 --> 29:27.270 you're doing uh in your lane . And then 29:27.280 --> 29:29.502 as I said before , we're focused on war 29:29.502 --> 29:31.447 fighting and uh joint war fighting 29:31.447 --> 29:34.630 concept 3.0 and making that a reality . 29:34.930 --> 29:37.152 And to make it a reality , it has to be 29:37.152 --> 29:39.319 something that is actually doable . Uh 29:39.319 --> 29:42.209 not some pie in the sky uh thing that 29:42.219 --> 29:44.560 some smart person chin scratcher uh 29:44.589 --> 29:46.969 figured out on a piece of paper . But 29:46.979 --> 29:49.035 now you got to actually turn it into 29:49.035 --> 29:51.146 actual real war fighting capability . 29:51.219 --> 29:53.330 And uh so we're doing that along with 29:53.330 --> 29:55.441 the rest of the joint staff and along 29:55.441 --> 29:59.040 with our partners uh in both uh the C 29:59.050 --> 30:02.180 SAS and in the , in the uh the combined 30:02.189 --> 30:04.849 force as well . And uh industries there 30:04.859 --> 30:07.119 with us , uh as we take a look at these 30:07.130 --> 30:09.599 different strings in order to ensure 30:09.609 --> 30:11.760 that we don't miss something or leave 30:11.770 --> 30:13.714 them out so that they have to play 30:13.714 --> 30:15.859 catch up . And then there are 30:15.869 --> 30:17.813 opportunities out there . And even 30:17.813 --> 30:19.925 though I started my theme music out , 30:20.030 --> 30:22.280 uh with Darth Vader and his , uh his 30:22.290 --> 30:24.219 walk in music , uh there are 30:24.229 --> 30:27.910 opportunities out there . Um , all is 30:27.920 --> 30:31.270 not doom and gloom . Uh There is hope 30:31.640 --> 30:34.510 and that hope resides in our ability to 30:34.520 --> 30:36.576 take the requirements that we have , 30:36.609 --> 30:39.010 turn them into real capabilities and 30:39.020 --> 30:41.020 then making sure that we're able to 30:41.020 --> 30:43.187 fund it and do the things that we need 30:43.187 --> 30:45.298 to do . So that most of you here that 30:45.298 --> 30:47.589 uh do it for a living actually can 30:47.599 --> 30:49.949 enable us to fight and win in a 30:49.959 --> 30:51.848 contested environment that we are 30:51.848 --> 30:53.790 surely to be in uh in the next uh 30:53.800 --> 30:56.339 several years if uh if it comes through . 30:56.920 --> 30:58.976 Uh So I'll , I'll pause there and uh 30:58.976 --> 31:02.859 bring up uh the Panelist and uh get 31:02.869 --> 31:05.569 them seated and uh then we'll go on 31:05.579 --> 31:08.199 with the uh panel . So please , can my 31:08.209 --> 31:10.680 fellow panelists , please come up and 31:10.689 --> 31:12.967 this is the best part for me because I , 31:12.967 --> 31:14.967 I don't get to do anything but just 31:14.967 --> 31:17.078 read questions off and bait them into 31:17.078 --> 31:19.245 saying something that they didn't mean 31:19.245 --> 31:18.530 to say .