Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Next, a look at military readiness and increasing terrorism threats, hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. They focused on Chemical Warfare and modernization of the army. The discussion is an hour. All right, thank you, everyone, for sticking around as we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event, where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And csis is today rolling out a report on Army Modernization called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. And i want to begin by thanking the sponsors of that study, because without sponsors, we dont get to do studies. And this study was sponsored by a combination of support from General Dynamics drs technologies, part of leonardo, and all three, as well. So we want to thank them for their support. Im going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80ish page
Their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the bonds of earth to touch the face of god. You can see all of president reagans remarks and tributes to the crew by members of congress on the house floor and more, part of our special programming tonight on the 30th anniversary of this Space Shuttle. Challenger explosion. Thats at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Now here on cspan3, a discussion about federal Land Management in Western States and the potential for the transfer of control of those lands back to the states. Its hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our douglas and Sarah Allison auditorous. We join those who join us on our heritage. Org website on all of these occasions. Would make our inhouse guests to make that courtesy check that cell phones have been silenced. It is always appreciated. You are internet viewers can submit questions at any time. Simply emailing speak speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion and opening
Thank you, guys. At this point, ill turn it over to q a from the audience. As you ask your question, a gentle reminder, please ask, if you have a panelist, please let us know who it is and please ask a question. Thank you. Okay, my question will be about database sets. My names peter gisele, i work in a hospital laboratory, im not a computer geek. As a military veteran, i was interested in a bill that was in the congress a long time ago. My frustration is that 99 of the people i contact i never get feedback from. What i want to create is a website, a viewer easily available database that has database sets in it of like the members of congress, people in the executive branch, but also governors and that. But also academic professors so that i could, over my retirement years, contact these people and try to get feedback, but at least document on this website that contact has been attempted and no response has been given. Database sets are very expensive and i just dont understand why the
There are reports and theres a lot of oversight in this subCommittee Mark. So i would say while i agree with some of her comments and ideas behind why she wants to see this, i would also agree with mr. Turner that the unit cost as come down for us and make date in some ways more affordable as well as for many of our allies looking at some of these buys in order to make sure they are also applied by this. Thank you for your time. Appreciated. Gemmill and from mr. Castro appeared i would like to yield three minutes to the gentlelady from california ms. Speier. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I have a question or to chair the subcommittee. Mr. Turner, the fact that the gao, the Inspector General and the department of Operational Testing and evaluation have all said that there are problems and that we need to recognize moving forward we dont even have to ramp up capacity as i believe the gao, do you basically disagree with the conclusions made by those various oversight entities . No.
For those kind words. We go way back. Im always worried when doug introduces me. He knows an awful lot of stuff he could say. But he always kind of he is on his way to the Supreme Court to i guess a woman we know, great lawyers, going to argue the dna case, and its something we probably ought to win 90. Dont you think . So dont blow it. [laughter] ninezip, you know. Now, as some of you know, as doug said, we worked noth the u. S. Attorneys office, but the notion i was his boss is a complete joke. But its always a privilege to be with him today, and its a privilege actually to be included in this important annual meeting. Id particularly like to welcome this organizations newest members. 11 state attorneys general who are participating for the first time and id like to recognize and thank all the good friends and colleagues here today. Thank you for lending your time, you diverse perspectives and your talent to this associations critical work. Over the past four years ive been fortunate