Defense Writers Group
April 12, 2022
Moderator: Greetings everyone, good morning and welcome to this very exciting Defense Writers Group. Our special guest is the Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks who is joining us at just a fantastic, interesting, important time in our history. Your timing today, Madame Secretary, is really terrific. The new budget is out. Not many days ago you delivered the classified National Defense Strategy to Congress and released the bullet points. If you could, as a strategic level leader of the department, talk about what priorities that sets and how you will move ahead fulfilling the National Defense Strategy.
DSD Hicks: Sure, first of all I am masked because I had a close contact six days ago, so so far, so good.
