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Thornberry Urges DoD to Lay Out Reforms in Time for Defense Authorization Bill Markup

Valerie Insinna

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

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Thornberry Urges DoD to Lay Out Reforms in Time for Defense Authorization Bill Markup

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) on March 22 pressed the Defense Department’s top two officials to reveal the results of its Goldwater-Nichols review so that proposed changes could be included in the 2017 defense authorization bill.“I’m anxious to see what you suggest even if it’s not all of the reforms that some of these other folks are pursuing,” he told Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford at the…

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