US DoD Transition Plans

DoD has already dropped the press release addressing the coming transition plans:

The Defense Department has made extensive plans for a smooth transition from the present administration to that of the president-elect, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said here today.
Pentagon officials are ready to begin briefing a new president-elect’s transition team as soon as he’s chosen, Whitman said.
The transition between administrations comes when the United States is at war, the first time this has happened since 1969, when the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson transitioned to that of President Richard M. Nixon in the midst of the Vietnam War.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has launched early preparations to minimize disruptions as the administrations change, Whitman said. Gates has created a transition task force that will operate under five guiding principles:
-- Maintaining continuity of operations;
-- Assuring efficient and effective transition of outgoing leadership;
-- Assuring the efficient and effective in-processing of the incoming leaders;
-- Facilitating the transfer of information to the new administration; and
-- Sustaining focus on existing programs and processes while allowing the incoming administration to focus on its governing processes.
“One of the important components of this is ensuring that we’ve identified and highlighted some of the key department events, actions [and] milestones that a new administration will face in its first 90 days,” Whitman said.

By: Brant