STRATCOM chief to be briefed on electromagnetic warfare, stockpile

The Defense Department’s Strategic Advisory Group will brief the head of U.S. Strategic Command on topics including electromagnetic warfare and the annual assessment of the national defense stockpile during a closed-door meeting Oct. 2, according to a Federal Register notice published today.

The scheduling notice comes just over a week after the Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon is failing to provide Congress with sufficient information to address risks or shortfalls in the supply chain for materials deemed critical to national defense in its recent stockpile reports.

Other topics the group will brief STRATCOM Commander Gen. Anthony Cotton on include artificial intelligence/machine learning, implications of the “developing Arctic Presence,” mixed munition load outs, strategic competition, integrated deterrence, COCOM-wide command and control efforts in a nuclear integrated environment and nuclear force sustainment, the notice said.