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Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eight Congress, First Session on S. 1050
AS Senator Reed knows, the passage of the goldwater-nichols Act in 1986 did initiate a process that has greatly changed the way our Armed Forces operate together. It puts into place processes to assess gaps in our joint capabilities and try to really identify the requirements to fix these gaps.
Members of this subcommittee have been instrumental in getting a joint experimentation process initiated. I remember well my first trip to the Atlantic Command, that is what it was called in years past, and that was under the command of Admiral Gehman, and the difficulty staff and all of us had in obtaining any funding for any joint exercise.
The events of September 11, however, changed a lot of things, in cluding the urgency with which we need to review the capability of our Armed Forces to ensure that they are organized, trained, and equipped to be adaptable and capable of deterring and, if nec essary, defeating known and emerging threats to our national secu rity.
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