Management of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) transfers from DARPA to joint Air Force-Navy leadership. (The Quadrennial Defense Review issued in 2006 would cede the program to the Navy alone.)
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.