Health.mil – Readiness is a strategic imperative to ensure warfighter dominance, survivability, and resilience, as well as sustaining the skills of the medical force and ensuring accessible, high-quality and sustainable care.
“Readiness cannot be secondary. You cannot do readiness at the last minute. You cannot cram for readiness. When it comes to mission success, readiness is everything,” said Dr. Stephen Ferrara, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
It starts with maintaining the ready medical force, and the Defense Health Program budget, which this year is approximately $61 billion, is about 7% of the Pentagon’s topline budget.
