Our guest today, general ann dunwoody, has scored a number of firsts. She is the first woman in u. S. Military history to achieve the fourstar rank, she was the first woman to command a battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division, and she was the first woman to command the combined arm support command. For the last four years of her active duty, ann helded the u. S. Army material command. Now retired, she was in charge of the Largest Global Logistics Command in the army comprised of 69000 military and civilians located in all 50 states and more than 140 countries. She managed a budget of 60 billion. Im jealous. And was responsible for oversight of approximately 70 billion in service contracts. Army chief of staff general ray odierno called ann quite simply the best loy sticks the army has ever had. And has pads ann has passed on some of the strategies she used to earn this praise in her new book. Walter isaacson, president and ceo of the Aspen Institute and author of the innovators, has sa
Our guest today, general ann dunwoody, has scored a number of firsts. She is the first woman in u. S. Military history to achieve the fourstar rank, she was the first woman to command a battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division, and she was the first woman to command the combined arm support command. For the last four years of her active duty, ann helded the u. S. Army material command. Now retired, she was in charge of the Largest Global Logistics Command in the army comprised of 69000 military and civilians located in all 50 states and more than 140 countries. She managed a budget of 60 billion. Im jealous. And was responsible for oversight of approximately 70 billion in service contracts. Army chief of staff general ray odierno called ann quite simply the best loy sticks the army has ever had. And has pads ann has passed on some of the strategies she used to earn this praise in her new book. Walter isaacson, president and ceo of the Aspen Institute and author of the innovators, has sa
Modernization. This is about 45. Good morning this is for secretary and to the sheet chiefs. You talked about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. I am hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year, do you have an assessment whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp. Thank you. I would say it is very early to be speculating about where we will land at the end of fy 23. I do not think we are in a good position to answer that question. In terms of what we will be doing the next few months, we have started the future soldier prep course. As i said at the early results look pretty promising. Depending on how that plays out in the next month or two, i think we will look at expanding that two additional training sites, which would help us. Another thing we have done is, we have partnered the full power of force, with our recruiting brigade. We are just i would say increasing the p
Hello to our viewers to the United States, i am john king in washington, this is cnn, we are closing a big workweek as america is reopening. Well hear from the president on a topic of concerns to all of us here around the world and the United States, the race to find a vaccine. The president is introducing his team what the white house calls operation war speed. He predicts a vaccine by the start of next year. His own experts say that would be a miracle pace. You can see the daily reminder of how urgently the world needs the vaccine. 1. 7 cases here in the United States. Soon to be 86,000 americans dead. New warnings of the virus and the Counter Measures in place to guide the 50 states reopening experience. The fda says the abbott lab tests, the one being used by the white house should not be trusted. Where ever you are watching, unlocking is happening outside your door. Maralago, the president s resort will open this weekend. As we told you any moment well hear from the president of t
Operation warp speed will integrate existing efforts that are coordinating vaccine, therapeutic, and countermeasure development, including nihs active and red x initiatives. This week, hhs and dod already announced new contracts to manufacture hundreds of millions of needles and syringes here in america for distributing and eventual vaccine. Finally, the president s efforts will ensure not only that we get vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics faster, but that we get large donations of the eventual products of their affordable for the American People. Thank you, mr. President , and thank you for all the american scientists and innovators at hhs, dod, and elsewhere hard at work already. I want to appreciate my personal produce this partnership is whats going to make this truly an historic endeavor. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mr. President , for your leadership of this bold and historic initiative. The department of defense is very excited and committed to working closely with ou