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At his first appearance before Congress since his hospitalization for complications from prostate cancer surgery, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin repeatedly stressed that there were never any gaps in command and control of the military during his emergency hospitalization and that procedures for notifying other Pentagon officials and the White House of absences have since been improved.