Today in the Department of Defense, Dec. 14, 2016

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is traveling. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. have no public or media events on their schedules.

Lt. Gen. Bill Bender, chief, information dominance; and chief information officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, discusses Air Force information dominance at 9:30 a.m. EST at the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), briefs the media via DVIDS at 11 a.m. EST 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.

Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief, National Guard Bureau, speaks at 5 p.m. EST at the National Guard birthday celebration, Kennedy Caucus Room, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, District of Columbia.