Senator Warner says Hampton Roads-based Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) will be renamed, retooled, refocused and resized – but the bipartisan Virginia delegation worked together to save about half of the 4,000 JFCOM jobs in Hampton Roads that were originally targeted for elimination.

Senator Warner spoke to WAVY-TV via satellite: 

"I think that we have made a solid business case to the DOD that there were critical functions in JFCOM that needed to be maintained and the fact that we started in August that they were going to get rid of all 4000 jobs, and now we're north of 50 per cent of those jobs being maintained, I think we made that business case," said Warner.

Senator Warner told Federal News Radio that expects the timeline for JFCOM’s reorgnization to be announced in the next few weeks. The retooled command will report directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.