Congress, meanwhile, has named a new commission to review the NDS, military readiness, the strategic environment and other issues.
Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy who is now an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, will chair the commission. He declined to discuss the panel because it has yet to be formally established or have its first meeting.
The Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, which established the commission, requires the panel to produce a classified report and an unclassified summary