Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan sat down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with Government Matters' Francis Rose this week at West 2018 -- a Sea Service conference in San Diego co-sponsored by AFCEA International and U.S. Naval Institute.

They discussed elements from the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the Pentagon's push to become more affordable, reorganization efforts inside the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and more.

Francis also spoke with John Hale, chief of the Cloud Portfolio Office at the Defense Information Systems Agency, about milCloud 2.0's accelerated deployment and his call for a "year of planning."