The head of the House Armed Services Committee is urging Pentagon leaders to submit their recommendations for how to modify the Goldwater-Nichols Act before lawmakers mark up the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill. During a March 22 committee hearing, Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) told Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford that the committee's mark-up is about a month away. "For us to have time to look at it, we will...
