Department of Defense making certain easy transition of energy, says high Pentagon official

The US Department of Defense (DOD) is making certain a easy transition of energy, a high Indian-American official on the Pentagon mentioned, and asserted it’s absolutely cooperating with the Biden administration on this regard.
The Biden workforce initially requested 130 interviews, finally growing that to 225  “a far greater number than prior administrations. Till date, the Department of Defense has completed 213, involving over 550 senior department officials,” Kash Patel, chief of employees to the Department of Defense and to the performing Secretary of Defence, wrote in an op-ed to Fox News on Wednesday.
Patel, who’s the highest-ranking Indian-American civilian within the Pentagon, mentioned the division additionally accomplished 261 requests for data and 43 preliminary transition books constituting upwards of seven,200 pages.
This was all achieved amid the continued problem of COVID-19, which has prompted the Pentagon to function with solely 40 per cent of its workforce within the constructing, he wrote.
The Indian-American refuted allegations from the Biden-Harris transition workforce that the Pentagon has not been co-operating with them.
“Shortly before Christmas, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller paused the interview process for one day (Dec 18, 2020) so that our senior leadership could focus on other pressing national security matters, including threats from Iran, a data breach, and two COVID-19 vaccines,” he mentioned.
“Though this one-day pause caused much false speculation that the DOD was halting the transition entirely, Acting Secretary Miller and I both made sure to reach out to the transition team for President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to personally guarantee them that the transition activities would resume and the media chatter about nefarious plots was just that: chatter,” Patel wrote.
Transition actions did resume as promised, and 20 extra interviews have occurred since, he added.
“Here at the Department of Defense, we will ensure that the new leaders of the world’s most powerful military are fully prepared to assume the helm at noon Jan 20. I wish our team of more than three million the utmost success and we, as a nation, are indebted to them for their service to our country,” Patel mentioned.