Modernization. This is about 45. Good morning this is for secretary and to the sheet chiefs. You talked about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. I am hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year, do you have an assessment whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp. Thank you. I would say it is very early to be speculating about where we will land at the end of fy 23. I do not think we are in a good position to answer that question. In terms of what we will be doing the next few months, we have started the future soldier prep course. As i said at the early results look pretty promising. Depending on how that plays out in the next month or two, i think we will look at expanding that two additional training sites, which would help us. Another thing we have done is, we have partnered the full power of force, with our recruiting brigade. We are just i would say increasing the profile of the army i events across the United States. We will be increasing the marketing that we spend, and we have very datadriven analysis that helps us look at how marketing, what return on investment we can get. We can put more investment into marketing. We have our recruiting task force who are tasked with helping us come up with what i think is what is the next big thing or future prep course. Part of the mandate of the task force is to help us identify that and get it moving. We really believe that exposure to the armory is important. It is just recruiters, but soldiers for life. I talk to our soldiers for life. Those who served, talking about the value of having been a soldier. Our retired veterans think it is important. We enjoy eating our soldiers who have been successful in the army to go back to the high schools, communities and talk about what a difference it made in their life. We opened up our gated communities. People can see what is the life or a soldier. We talked about this before. 83 of the young men and women who come, come from military families. If they know what that is, and we have to do is expose those who may not have had the opportunity to understand what the army is about. What . Right now, we are in the process of developing plans to do that. We want to make sure there is a moment of recruits i can do that. The initial results we are seeing is fundamentally changed how we do recruiting. What i mean is we get young men and women, some do not have the best access or fitness. We are finding them a lot about their commitment and whether they want to serve. We think this is very valuable. We can do this in front before we invest in a lot of resources. What it takes to go to go through initial training. The other thing where finding for these young men and women they are getting a head start on additional military training. When they enter, theres ranks, they are ahead. Those who are seen military training, we choose student leaders. They get a chance to do that. We are seeing some of recruits, in some ways might have been at the lower end of that capability doing extremely well. So we are excited to see how far this will go. Cant link with defense one. Kaitlyn with defense one. During your comments you seem to recognize the end to the duet area. In said today we are ready to defend this country as we face Nuclear Armed competitors. Do you believe that the error is now over and the new doctrine you are releasing is heralding in a new era for the army . I think we are in a new era of being focused on peer competitors. You see that in the National Defense strategy, ec that and secretary and other d. O. T. Leaders dod leaders is a challenger and rushes an acute threat. We have a problem with violent extremists organizations. There is no doubt. Ask the army who are in iraq and syria dealing with that and africom. I think we will continue to monitor and deal with that problem as it needs to be dealt with. It is not going to be the center of our strategy the way it was the last 20 years. The war and terrorism is over . It is not as global or as much as front and center as the army. The way i would characterize it is, the level of our focus on violent extremists organizations is not at the level of award. It is an ongoing challenging problem we have to manage. Come over here to davis. Davey, army retired. The report faulted multiple general officers for ceding the social media space. In the wake of the act. However, the ig report we obtained about where his retirement is now delayed says his tweet, when he was responding to tucker carlsens comments about women in the army and military cast in the army in a negative light. Where is the middle ground where you want your Senior Leaders to exist and engage on social media . You have folks who are getting hammered for not doing it, and folks getting hammered for seeing and doing it to the greatest extent they think appropriate. What do you want your next general officers to do with regards to social media . I think the key with social media it is an important obvious information tool. The key for Senior Leaders in an environment that is as politicized as the one we are operating is, is to exercise good judgment. One of the things i think is most important to general mcconnell mcconville and i is keeping it a political and out of the culture war. We have to be able to have a broad appeal. When only 9 of kids are interested in serving, we have to make sure we are careful about not alienating wide swaths of the public to the army. I think we want our general officers on social media, but they need to exercise good judgment. They need to be positive, and factual about what the army offers. Not get drawn into the inflammatory environment that twitter lends itself to. Interested in breaking defense . Sorry, andrew emerson. During her speech today, you mentioned you asked and general daily to lead a comprehensive effort to strengthen logistics and sustainment efforts in the indo pacific. Can you provide more detail on what you asked the general to do and the specifics of what they are are in the goals . We are just Getting Started with that initiative, but there are a few things i wanted to emphasize. First of all, i think we have to focus on contested logistics in the indo pacific. Which is the most demanding theater from a logistic perspective because of the distances involved and the reasons obvious reasons. What will be useful about what general bailey and the Army Material command can do, is like i said look at where there are opportunities with things like autonomous distribution. With things like energyefficient combat systems. To explore where can we get ahead, leveraging those kinds of technologies or making greater use of Predictive Analytics . And then emphasizing partnering with the part the commercial sector. We have a lot we can learn from the innovation that is happening in the commercial sector. I think we have done a good job of partnering with industry around the development of new combat capabilities. I think we need to make sure we are exploring what we can do in terms of logistics with the commercial sector. I think that is where he will be focusing. Hi haley with purpose. You mentioned how important it is to not alienate the public with recruiting. Frankly the last few days, a lot of soldiers who exist and more marginalized groups feel alienated by their own organization they exist in. What would you say to the women in the army, people of color who saw this response to donahoe and thought the army will not have my back. No one is coming to my defense. When these very volatile, political figures come after them. And question the purpose and belonging. I do not want soldiers, whether it is women or soldiers from other communities to feel alienated. We always want to have the backs of our soldiers. I think there are ways to do that, that are more effective than others. In the past, pointing down towards the estimate,. He spoke not for women against the good commentary for being combat or maternity uniforms. I think there is a way to stand up for our soldiers and have their backs. I think the key is tone. And kind of looking at your audience. I will come onto that. Talking about women in the army. My wife was a soldier, daughters a soldier, we have hundred 85,000 women serving with distinction in the army. I serve with women multiple times in combat zones. When i remember specifically, in 2000 four when i job was getting overrun, we got a frantic call from the core headquarters. We responded with a team of apaches, and they got there and saved a bunch of lies. The leader of that team was roselle, and i do not remember anyone questioning her gender after they saved their life. Those stories need to be told. Not getting into a left, right, back and forth on twitter. We need to talk about and show what our soldiers are doing. That is what we need to do. One more thing, i would emphasize is more broadly, in terms of soldiers coming from marginalized communities or demographics that are not widely represented in the army. That is part of why we have to emphasize positive command climates and inclusion. We get criticized for being woke, i am not sure what woke means. I think it means a lot of Different Things to different people. First of all, i would say if woke means we are not focused on war fighting, we are not focused on readiness. That does not reflect what i see at installations around the country or overseas when i go and visit. We do have a wide range of soldiers in our army. We have to make them all feel included. That is why a lot of our diversity, equity and inclusion programs are important. Lets go over to charo. Just to followup on the questions. Is the army considering revising its guidance to Senior Leaders about engaging on social media platforms in wake of this . I think it is something we should look at. I confess i am not intimately familiar with what our guardian says now. I know for example, we have precut recommend courses for our battalion commanders. Which other Senior Leaders go over all sorts of things to help them prepare for those demanding assignments. I think it is worth looking into , do we feel like we have the best available training out there for our leaders who will be on social media . Kimberly with psycho magazine. You mentioned direct energy. You elaborate on your goal for energy and what you are looking from the industry for the next advanced men of laser energy and directed energy . I will start. I know the people want to add. I think particularly given the unmanned aerial system threat, we need to be looking at directed energy as an important capability for the future. We are doing that, whether it is with the directed Energy System we are working to develop, or the highpowered microwave. We have a couple prototypes systems that are looking at different kilowatts of lasers. I think right now, we are seeing good results with those initial development programs. When are the things will have to look at is the cost of scaling up those kinds of programs. The big advantage is it has an unlimited magazine. Theres a cost efficiency there, but looking at the platforms and lifecycle cost. We have to make sure, overall it is going to make sense from an overall cost perspective. We talked about the challenge or threat of unmanned systems. Are there over the battle system. We will see them everywhere. We need to develop the arrows that we will use for each specific system. We want to give the command multiple options if they can engage lethal drones. We run from fat initials to patriot missiles and everywhere in between. We are talking about swarms of unmanned systems. We want to have that capability to engage multiple threats on time. Where we are going, some heard about project convergence. We are taking multiple sensors, bringing them to an integrated commandandcontrol system using Artificial Intelligence to get that information updated to the right system. That is where we see a lasers coming into being. We do not want to shoot patriot missiles hundred thousand dollars ua ss. It would not be very effective against swarms. We are trying to give our commanders the capabilities they need to have so they can react to whatever threat they get. Lets go to tony and steve. Of a hardware question in place with recruiting. The most enduring symbol for the army for those of us who have grown up with the tank. Your equivalent of the 18 f18. Given the lessons we learn from ukraine, how the javelin and other systems cannot cap attend. What is the relevance for the future of the abrams, especially in the army 3. 0 . I heard those comments, and heres what i would say. You do not need armor if you do not want to win. I mean is, to go on the offensive, if you look at theyre great lessons being land from ukraine. You talk about javelins and stingers. That was the initial part, and that was when we were in complex. There were in complex terrain trying to defend cities, and today they did that very well. You do not win by being on the defense. You have to go on the offense. If you look at what the ukrainians ask for. They ask for walk longerrange fire. You saw the triple sevens going. You described high mars as a game changer, with buyers. As the ukrainians go on the offensive, what they are looking for is vehicles and tanks. I would argue, in the future is it is about combined arms. You never want to present your adversary one dilemma. You throw if you push tanks at them they can do it what you seem to you want him a treat infantry, armor, aviation, and intelligence. Although systems working together. The other thing i would add is this notion of longerrange decision fires. Where the army is going as not longerrange decision fire. If you look at the Strike Missile that will come out. That will be 500 kilometers and 300. You start to see the capabilities. You start to imagine how this will change, not the nature but the characteristics. Where fielding marble protective fire to support infantry. Those who sought fought in cities, you want to have that armor capability. At is more along the lines of the fight we will have. The difference you will see is the importance of error and how we will fight. I see as we developed, we have unmanned aerosystems and unmanned ground systems. You will see with man unmanned teaming. Eoc a lot being done on the ground. You will see the capability command will have to take the visual what they are seeing on the battlefield back into it. There will be able to make decisions based on that. The future, we never want to see someone go into a minefield or through roads with an ied that has a manned vehicle in front. We can do that with unmanned capabilities. I think you will see systems we bring on board. They come together, they are bigger. Like everything else. We do transitional change it takes time to get there. You will see how that changes the way we operate. You brought up the National Production for i looked all them and i recognize. To me the goal. Maybe one of our. Less qualified when. You have the recruiting most recently, i do not know how the situation then partisan media. I mean i just read set on a rant. Where you want your generals to be, and how do you want women to see. First about when i made my comment earlier, on i was not commenting on general done hose if you look carefully at what i said i was not speaking directly about his tweet. I have not come through his tweet. I am talking generally. I think Senior Leaders need to be careful about not getting engaged in partisan discussions over social media or in public remarks. I will not comment on an ongoing investigation. General done hose investigation is not completed and has not come forward for any adjudication. What i will say is i want our leaders to be able to have a social Media Presence and be able to speak up for soldiers and defend soldiers being unduly attacked. I think in this environment, Senior Leaders have to choose their words carefully. They have to exercise good judgment. Unfortunately, we are in an environment where things that people say, the things the chief and i second be taken out of context. We chuckle sometimes because statement winter the other of us criticizing both from the left in the right. I think it demonstrates the difficulty of being in the public arena and not being capable of taking a partisan side. There sectors will not comment on. One thing that is important. I tell you what we expect. We expect the highest level of character, and you may not know this, but routinely our system works is our generals gin work at any allegation that was made is investigated. Something investigated is not mean the person is guilty. It is frustrating. Someone will make an allegation, and it is in unfair system. It does take time, and i believe the system will handle that case in the appropriate manner likely handle every case with general officers. Brandy vincent. I am curious interview, what is the armys that is a good question. I think the most pressing challenge for us is delivering on fully developed technologies we are pursuing. Making good on 24 and 23, which we set a lot. I would not say one particular technological challenge. I think the challenge for us is getting those results over the finish line. Are we satisfied with how the armys meeting assets . I would say no, we are doing more and more every day to use data more effectively. I see it in all sorts of ways. Army material command, i think has done a tremendous job to improve our ability to see inventory of infrastructure. Using data, i was just over in germany with 18 airborne corps. The way we are using data and ai is tremendous. You know, we have so much more to do. Especially when it comes to the private sector. I know our development has taken over longer than we would like them to take. That shows we have challenges. Anytime you try to mix together 16 different personnel systems, we will have challenges. Especially if youre the government. I would say we are putting good steps forward towards being more data centric. We absolutely the journey of a thousand miles begins with the the first step. I am martinez. Touching on ukraine. Today we are seeing an escalation in attacks against civilian targets. Can you talk about what that means when you talk about the general of the war in the escalation against more civilian targets. What that means on tactical and strategic level. For secretary, the systems. There is been talk of will that affect the u. S. Army if it is active component . Is it something you keep in mind . Is it something you keep in mind when ukrainian skate making request for attack units. When you talk to the other chief enlisted. The army did not meet its recruiting goals. Are they seeing similar challenges. What makes the armys challenges unique. With regards to recruiting. I know i can speak for our army, we do everything we can to protect civilians. That is what you are required to do. Anything else is against the law of modern warfare. The fact that some be targeting innocent civilians is wrong. On your question about the readiness issue for high marks. Every time the ukrainians present the United States government with request for different types of lethal assistance. It is evaluated by all the services in terms of impact our readiness. I think we have been working very closely with osb to balance and mitigate those risks. Right now, i am comfortable with where we are in terms of our readiness. I think we do have a finite supply of those systems, and that is why we put so much emphasis working with our Industry Partners on trying to increase the production lines for these systems. Trying to produce more javelins. That is why we have been doing some really extraordinary things with the ukrainians to allow them to repair the systems they have and get them back into the fight more quickly. On the ascension. I think we struggled to hire people. Just in america, everybody is trying struggling to hire people. I do not think these challenges are unique to the army. I think we are the largest service. We have large ascension, and mission. That is natural. Youre trying to get more. Everybodys trying to get the same talent. Youre the secretary they have a propensity to serve. That propensity to serve in the army and marine corps or national guard. I think we have the same unique challenges. With the chief said as we all need to get out and talk about our army. Everybody, not just here on this room. Everybody down there and in america we are your army. Were not somebody elses. We are the american peoples army. We serve to defend our country. That is a respected profession. We need to remind ourselves of this respected profession because these are the challenges. Everything is said. Those did not come off the plate or the United States army. We have an obligation in iraq, syria and yukon. You do not meet your assessment goals. We will take some of those missions way. We need to talk well about our army, but this is not unique. That is the same thing we said with the Senior Leaders. Evan with inside defense. I wanted to ask if there is a certain modernization programs that you might be worried about. Certainly another cr will have negative impacts for us. There are a number of programs who might have some schedule, particularly if we got into a long continuing resolution. I apologize, i do not have those names off the top of my head. We can get them for you. Sadly, we have all been operating under crs for such a long time, we have gotten pretty efficient at managing through them. Again, if we so a long cr. There would be programs that would be impacted. Chris. I am with newsmax. Was there any talk with the chief of operations. Top gun. The navy and the army consider the navy strategy. The admiral was we have tom cruise. Should the army consider Something Like that . Out be very interested. Tom cruise, come down. What clingy. There are others. Im sure my daughter has more on point suggestions about celebrities we can engage. We absolutely would be open to seeing movies about the army or tv shows. We talk to folks in hollywood about the possibility of tv shows. This is them approaching us. Not separate from our immediate challenges. I think that exposure could be very positive. And we do have a good story. People do not talk about with recruiting challenges is our retention numbers are good. What does that tell you . When a lot of people come into the army, they like it. They want to stay. They see the benefits it can bring. There is a good story to tell. Need to work on finding the right people. Can from new york. We followed where point training on cyber purity might call cyber the silent service. Talked about the need former data experts in the army. How do you feel about cyber Branch Development and readiness . The army has been a leader in the cyber domain. We were the First Service to get going with our Cyber Warriors, and Army Cyber Command is doing some great thanks. We have the Software Factory down in austin, where we are canvassing folks from across the army. They may be in a bunch of different moss that have nothing to do with cyber. They have the ability to code, and some of them coda a high level. Code at a high level. We gathered them up and set up a Pilot Program to build that expertise and are looking at how it can be best used in the army. As an example of the tremendous things the army is doing, in terms of cyber and coding. And i was at in germany i ran into a captain who gotten a masters degree from carnegie malley under the army. And was doing writing code in there and then that was doing immediate operational things. I think that is the kind of thing where we can do more. Im sure that chief would want to expand on that. We look at our sources of commission. It cyber is one of the top branches. They compete for it. If you want to be cyber ops you have to finish at the fewer top of your class. The secretary said, we have a lot of young men and women that code at a very high level. The secretary talked about the Software Factory. We have a specialist as a medic, down there who has been coded coding since 12 years old. Part of that from our account management side is how do we know who those people are . We have to do a better job of managing knowledge, skills and behavior of our soldiers. Eventually, we are getting in. That is how we will be able to identify the talent. It is critical. The reason we have a Software Factory and cyber and the Ai Task Force in Carnegie Mellon as we know how important that is. We are coding on the edge, and seeing that happen right now. If you want to hear, and details about what the army is doing. I would encourage you to search out paul stanton who is here. His chapter got one of the awards. He is the chief of cyber center of excellence in fort morgan. Im sure he can talk to all day about the tremendous things our Cyber Warriors are doing. You mentioned some of the capabilities that are going to be fielded in 2024, potentially prism and other longrange capabilities. Have any countries agreed to let these capabilities be faced inside the country . Are you looking at the islands as a potential spot to place capabilities . The state department is in the lead for working out what kind of basing arrangements may be possible for some of these new systems. I would say, when you look at as someone who worked in the National Security space for a number of years. Where countries like japan, australia are today. These are the challenge of china compared to the where where there were 10 years ago is remarkable. I think a lot of these countries are very open to cooperating with United States military because of the concerns they have about chinas course of activities in places like the South China Sea and elsewhere. Our job is to develop the capabilities and make sure they are ready when called upon. Certainly, when we talk to my counterparts and the chief talks to his counterpart in the region. They are interested in formations like the Multidomain Task force. Which includes which will include longrange fire battalions. Madam secretary you touched on arguments and errors. Can you talk more about the future of these prototypes transitioning to a Program GuideRail Replacement . When you look at the technology available. What you see an edge. What is the realistic blend of manned and unmanned . I think when it comes to we are learning a lot from ares and artemis. Being used in a couple of different theaters. We are looking at different kinds of sensors, what kind of platform they need to go on, eventually. I think we will be looking to put out and rsp for the hades platform, sometime in the coming year. Right now, we are using ares and artemis to learn and experiment, and better understand what our needs are. In the middle. Shelley with u. S. Army. What role does research and Development Play in the army of 2030 . Research and development is important. First of all, especially, i talked a bit my speech about looking ahead to 2040 and figuring out what the next generation capabilities. That is a big place where we can use r d to help us understand that. To get some at least looking at new potential technologies and capabilities. We are making sure we find research and development. We are largely through Army Futures Command doing a lot to have partnerships with academia. So we can leverage the cuttingedge coming out of academia. They are doing a lot of interesting research. The Army Research lab they speak role. Hi, matt boehner from defense daily. There has been conversation about the role of command when it relates to asol. As all of these Signature Systems move from developing to feel. How do you view the potential shifting role of command, 2030 and beyond. Is it more about emphasis on Concept Development . How can that shift as futures command heads into the near future, post 35 future system . I would say i do not see Army Futures Command going anywhere anytime soon. 2030 is still eight years away. There is a lot of work that has to be done to deliver the systems we are working on in the six major modernization portfolios. Afc and will Work Together to get that done. As i said afc and the army more broadly do need to look ahead to 2040. And do need to be looking at what are the next kinds of operating concepts we need . What are the new kinds of technologies we need . That is where the Army Futures Command can play an important role. We have the part of futures command Army Futures Command focused exclusively on the future. General scott mckean and steph a burn are leading the future study program. We ask general rainey to accelerate that. Simultaneously, look at delivering 2030, and looking ahead to 2040. I think there is plenty of work for futures command for years to come. We are running on time. Let me check the phones. We have had sin from political talent. Lee with political. What is your reaction to the civilian rocket bombing by russia. President putin said it was in response to a terrorist attack on the bridge. I think as the general said, it is terrific that russia is directly targeting civilians, and Critical Infrastructure for civilians. This is what, unfortunately, president putin and to the Russian Military have been doing for some time since the invasion of ukraine. They directly targeted civilian, civilian cities, and let the civilian soldiers prosecute atrocities. It is concerning, but it is an extension of the tactics we have seen from the beginning of the invasion. Thank you everyone. I will give the panel we covered a lot. Any Closing Remarks . 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