Air Force Space Command boss Gen. Bob Kehler told industry representatives at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Infotech 2009 in Dayton, Ohio, Tuesday, that they must bring the US military “integrated solutions” to aid cyberspace defense efforts, reports the Dayton Daily News. According to the newspaper, Kehler said, “Otherwise, we’re where we’ve been for 50 years, buying stovepipe systems that don’t talk to anybody else.” He added, “We don’t have enough money for that, and we don’t have the time for it.”
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.