
The new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is looking for “significant improvement” in the way the Pentagon classifies information, he said Jan. 29. “In many cases in the department, we’re just so overclassified, it’s ridiculous, just unbelievably ridiculous,” said Air Force Gen. John Hyten at a Wednesday breakfast event sponsored by the Air Force Association on Capitol Hill. Senior defense officials including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Mark…