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Defense Secretary Ash Carter is traveling to California and Colorado to continue his outreach to innovators in the technology sector, receive an update on key space issues, speak to Air Force Academy cadets and preside over an historic change of command at North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.

Today in the Department of Defense, May 11, 2016

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is traveling. His remarks at the Department of Defense’s innovation hub, Defense Innovation Unit – eXperimental (DIUx), in Mountain View, California; and to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, in Santa Clara, California, will be streamed live on www.defense.gov at 12:30 p.m. EDT and 4:30 p.m. EDT, respectively.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work is traveling. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. has no public or media events on his schedule.

Deputy Chief Information Officer for Information Enterprise David Cotton moderates a panel on strategic information technologies and cyber initiatives at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association breakfast program at 7:30 a.m. EDT, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, Virginia.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) holds its annual DARPA Demo Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT in the Pentagon Center Courtyard. DARPA Demo Day provides the DoD community with an up-close look at the Agency’s diverse portfolio of innovative technologies and military systems at various stages of development and readiness, spanning every military domain from undersea to outer space and across all of DARPA’s strategic focus areas, from sensors and microsystems to cyber and spectrum to biological technologies and counterterrorism. More information is available at http://www.darpa.mil/demoday. Journalists without a Pentagon badge who have not yet registered with DARPA to attend the DARPA Demo Day should contact DARPA Public Affairs at outreach@darpa.mil.

Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, commander, Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve, and commander, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), briefs the media live from Baghdad, at 11 a.m. EDT in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2E973), to provide an update on operations. Foreign journalists without a Pentagon building pass must plan on being escorted from the River Entrance Pedestrian Bridge only, or, if arriving at the Pentagon Metro Entrance Facility, must contact 703-697-5131 a minimum of one hour prior to your arrival. Please arrive no later than 45 minutes before the briefing if coming by Metro. U.S. journalists without a Pentagon building pass will be picked up at the River Entrance Pedestrian Bridge or the Pentagon Metro Visitors Entrance only. If arriving by Metro, please contact 703-697-5131 a minimum of one hour prior to your arrival, and plan to arrive no later than 30 minutes before the event; have proof of affiliation and photo identification. Please call 703-697-5131 for escort into the building. The briefing will also be streamed live on www.defense.gov.

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