Joint Press Conference by Secretary Carter and Secretary Michael Fallon > U.S. Department o... 5 of 14 https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/937142/joint-press-conference-... The United States respects the decision of the British people on Brexit. And we're committed to continuing and building upon our broad-ranging military, political and economic cooperation. That's because Brexit does not change at all all that our countries have to do together. It doesn't change all that binds our people together. And it certainly does not change how we will partner together to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities and defend the principled order in a rapidly changing world and amid new threats to the trans-Atlantic community. Indeed, we're going to start partnering together in new ways and in new domains to strengthen our longstanding alliance. Our special relationship is, as Michael noted, also becoming a cyber relationship. Just today, we concluded a memorandum of understanding, the first of its kind, to share more information and carry out vital research and development together to advance our offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. This agreement sends a clear message to our adversaries that the two nations who partnered together at Bletchley Park decades go to crack German codes are going to be doing more together in yet another arena, namely cyberspace. And this agreement is only one example of the British military's continued commitment to global leadership and to using its moral and physical range to take independent action in support of security in Europe and around the world. Others, just to acknowledge a few, include its impending and -- excuse me -including its implementing and funding, as I noted, its ambitious forward-looking strategic defense and security review; its modernization of the U.K.'s continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent; maritime patrol aircraft and attack helicopters. And Secretary Fallon's new defense innovation initiative, which similar to my own innovation agenda at the U.S. Department of Defense, and I very much admired what Michael has been doing here, would help keep 21.02.23, 14:13