The Department of Defense’s plan is designed to create a defined method and schedule for identifying certain significant rules that are obsolete, unnecessary, unjustified, excessively burdensome, or counterproductive.
The DoD Chief Infonnation Officer (CIO), in coordination with the Under Secretaries of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Intelligence and Security, and Research and Engineering will develop and submit the SWFT Framework and Implementation Plan within 90 days.
WartimeProductionUnit:Rebuild theU.S. defense industrywith manufacturing and supply chain experts fromDoWand industry to surge Americanmanufacturing capacity anddeliver weapons the at speed of relevance.
The requirement to look across Military Departments and Defense Agencies at the various portfolios and programs necessary to close kill chains will be met by the DOW’s CPM processes using mission engineering.
Authority, Direction, and Control Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency Defense Intelligence Agency National Geospatial Intelligence Agency National Reconnaissance Office National Security Agency and Central Security Service Agency
On 5 September 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order authorizing the secretary of defense, Department of Defense and subordinate officials to use the secondary titles "Secretary of War" and "Department of War."
More than any of his predecessors, he served as a roving ambassador for the Defense Department, traveling widely in the United States and abroad and discussing defense issues through numerous speeches, press conferences, and interviews.
He was a three-time recipient: in 1994 and 1995 as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; and in 2011 as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. He also received the Defense Intelligence Medal from the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The MEIA shall organize experimentation campaigns for considered KOPs, to include consideration of insertion of relevant capabilities from Military Services, Defense Agencies and Department of War Field Activities, and industry, and for exploration of new concepts.
Entities Identified as Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States in Accordance with Section 1260H of the William M. (“Mac”) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283)1*
