Marine Corps Gen. Michael Hagee told reporters in Washington today that progress via the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System is moving too slowly. He stopped short of criticizing the JCIDS concept, but said, “The process … would I like to see it go faster? Yes.” JCIDS is at the core of the Pentagon’s shift away from service-specific weapons development toward a process that leads to joint decisions about what capabilities DOD needs. “I would agree the process is frustrating and slow,” said Hagee, adding that from his perspective the system needs better modeling. Too much of what currently is in use is inherently manual in nature.
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…