"Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday that he hopes to see “significant improvement” this year on loosening classification standards in the infamously overclassified Pentagon.
Hyten said the process, which has the backing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, will attempt to make it easier to communicate with industry, the public and internally at the Defense Department.
“In many cases in the department, we’re just so overclassified it’s ridiculous, just unbelievably ridiculous,” Hyten told the audience at an Air Force Association event.
To underline his point, Hyten said when he was head of U.S. Strategic Command, he invited Adm. Harry Harris, then the head of U.S. Pacific Command, to a briefing — one so classified that their deputy commanders, both three-star officers, were not allowed to attend. If “the only people in the room are four-stars, you really can’t get any work done,” he noted."
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