US Transportation Command has put its new Families First program into a “strategic pause,” postponing the February implementation of phase 2 until it can deliver “quality development” of the plan’s “one system, one standard, worldwide Web-based” Defense Personal Property System. Officials say they need time to “create a more efficient program oversight process” and “provide ample time for user training” outside the peak May through September season for household moves. So that must mean they’re looking at next fall
Secretary of Defense Austin Lloyd III met with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the Philippines to discuss bolstering defense ties on May 2. The discussion included plans for joint F-35 exercises with Japan and Australia in the coming years.