To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. Unacceptable. And i fully expect the navys ongoing study of alternative Aircraft Carrier designs to provide real options. In all three of the lcs Mission Packages most overcome Major Technology integration challenges to deliver the promised warfighting capability. Building the first ohio class replacement submarine building the first flight three destroyer with the new Missile Defense radar, radar, radar. In Naval Aviation it will take strong leadership to oversee the smooth and timely integrati
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Good morning, this hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets to continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military services find themselves in. Readiness includes many things such as and strength, chair training and modernization. Today we will focus on he house sequestration in the years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corpss ability to modernize the current force to ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned for the army this week. Id like to welcome our witness, gary l thomas, the deputy commandant for resources at the marine corps. General thomas, we thank you for your service and look forward to receiving your important testimony today. Todays hearing will allow for a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant commandant to the marine corps during last months hearing on the sta
Tudentcam. Org. Now marine corps deputy commandant Lieutenant General gary thomas on the Corps Readiness to respond to overseas conflicts and its modernization efforts. He spoke to a House Armed Services subcommittee today for about an hour. Good morning. This hear willing come to order. The subcommittee meets today it continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military services find themselves in. Readiness includes many things. Such as end strength, training, and modernization. Mr. Turner today we will focus on how sequestration and years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corps ability to modernize the current force to be ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned with the army next week. Id like to welcome our witness, the deputy commandant for programs and resources, United States marine corps. General toments, we thank you for your ser