Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing on the Findings and Recommendations of the Comprehensive Review of Department of Defense Security Programs, Policies, and Procedures
July 5, 2023
Senior Defense Official
STAFF: Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Lieutenant Commander Tim Gorman, and I'll be moderating today's briefing.
As a reminder, we're on background. All information from our briefer should be attributed to "a senior defense official." The material emailed earlier to you, as well as the information in this briefing is embargoed until the conclusion of this briefing.
Our briefer today is (inaudible). She will have some opening comments, and then we will move into Q&A. I'll call on reporters, and in the interest of time, I ask that you limit yourself to one follow-up. For the Zoom participants, I have your names here. When I call on you, please take yourself off mute to ask your question.
With that, over to (inaudible) for opening comments.
SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Hello, everyone. Hope you all had a happy Fourth of July. Thanks for joining me today.
Late last week, Secretary Austin completed his review of the findings and recommendations of the comprehensive review of security programs, policies and procedures that he directed. That review, led by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security in coordination with the DOD Chief Information officer and the Director of Administration and Management, focused on an in-depth review across four key areas: personnel security, information safeguarding and accountability, physical security and education and training.
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