Ash Carter: “If confirmed, I plan to continue the Department's efforts to effectively implement each provision.”

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.