
An independent U.S. Cyber Command, a longer term for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the end of the Quadrennial Defense Review were just some of the Goldwater-Nichols style organizational changes suggested in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) chairman’s mark of the National Defense Authorization Act.The overhauls proposed by HASC Chairman Rep. Mac. Thornberry (R-Texas) correspond with some of the same broad areas that the Pentagon focused on in its own reform effort, including the role of…