Robert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, believes information sharing efforts can help bolster the security of space assets, DoD News reported Thursday.

Jim Garamone writes Cardillo noted the Joint Interagency Space Operations Center’s role in facilitating information sharing during a hearing before the House Armed Service Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee.

“[The center] is an amazing effort between the [Intelligence Community] and the [Defense Department] to share information… through a whole unity of effort between the two organizations,” he said.

Cardillo, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016, noted that adversaries currently aim to dismantle U.S. space capabilities, the report said.

He said space-based systems such as global positioning systems, missile warning and communications serve as the “core” of U.S. defense, Garamone reports.

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has said the service branch needs more time to train and achieve the level of readiness it needs to counter global threats the U.S. currently faces, Air Force Times reported Thursday.

Oriana Pawlyk writes James made her remarks at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday on the service branch’s budget request for fiscal 2017.

“Half of our combat air forces are not sufficiently ready for the kind of fight [Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley] just described,” said James, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2016.

Milley, also an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2016, cited Russia, China, North Korea and Iran as potential threats to U.S.’ national security.

“Money is helpful, but freeing up the time to do this training is equally important,” James added.

Lara Seligman also reported for Defense News that James also asked Congress to fund the three components of the service branch’s nuclear triad through a “strategic deterrence” joint fund.

These components include the B-21 bomber, the U.S. Navy’s Ohio Replacement Submarine program and the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent initiative.

“If [there] is a strategic deterrence fund that would help or benefit one leg of the triad, I would ask for consideration that all legs of the triad be included in such an approach,” she said at the hearing.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, chief of the U.S. Army Reserve, has said his organization is in need of sufficient training resources in order to maintain readiness as well as respond to unanticipated contingencies, DoD News reported Wednesday.

Lisa Ferdinando writes Talley joined other National Guard and Reserve chiefs at a Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee hearing Wednesday on the budget request for fiscal year 2017.

“This committee’s support is crucial to ensuring that we remain ready to provide support to the total force as unique current global requirements, respond to national emergencies and mobilize for contingency operations when our nation needs us most,” Talley told subpanel members.

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), committee chairman, said the proposed defense budget for fiscal 2017 seeks to allocate $46.6 billion for the National Guard and Reserve.

Army Gen. Frank Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Vice Adm. Robin Braun, head of the Navy Reserve, also issued statements at the hearing.