Craig Quigley
Craig Quigley
Craig Quigley is the Executive Director of the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance. He was an officer in the United States Navy and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, who retired with the rank of Rear Admiral...
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You don't assign officers in whom you have no confidence to positions of responsibility like Deputy Director for Operations on the Joint Staff.
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I very much would welcome and do welcome the transparency. To have the Chinese government officially say that there is a 17.7 percent increase in their defense spending next year, I think is a welcome addition to the knowledge that the world can then assess as to the amount of money that the Chinese government is spending on defense.
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Given the circumstances -- the recent attack on the Cole and the generally higher level of threat throughout that region, we thought it was simply the prudent thing to do.
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Within some defense agencies, they have thought the most prudent action was just to take their sites offline.
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I think that when we take guests on board, they do not automatically surrender their rights to privacy, and they've asked their names not be released and we're honoring that.
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We've been watching with great interest. We need to be aware of potential hacking into the DOD computer system and be able to defend against some of those attacks.
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Before the details of the collision start to fade in any human beings' mind with time, we want to see if we can capture their memories while they are still fresh, and get their understanding in their own perceptions and their own words, the details surrounding the accident, timeline leading up to it, everything.
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All the services know that this is coming. It should be signed in a day or two.