Office of the Secretary of Defense: 022_SASC_Transcript_2023

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1 work through policy and guidance issues to the forces and to
2 the services, and I would like to just make sure that we
3 message back to all of the operators the importance of their
4 reporting and the fact that you are about to get a bunch of
5 new requirements that we are issuing through the Joint Staff
6 on all of the data that we are going to need you to save and
7 report back to us.
8 It is invaluable and we are working to try to take the
9 most advantage of that to learn what it is that we are
10 trying to mitigate.
11 To get directly to your question, the first thing that
12 we are doing is normalizing our reporting. We are
13 standardizing our reporting and the requirements associated
14 with that.
15 Guidance from the Joint Staff, I think, goes out maybe
16 this week, maybe next week, that we have been working with
17 them for some months that does exactly what I just said. It
18 gives them timelines. It gives them requirements. It gives
19 them here is all the data you have to have and you have got
20 to retain it.
21 The next thing that comes after that is a plan ord that
22 will go out to the commands for mitigation and response. So
23 there is a couple of things that we have to do.
24 One, I need to work with the commands and with the IC
25 and with our -- outside of our DOD and IC partners to extend
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IAW FY24 NDAA, Section 1841(a)(1)(C)
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