P. M. E p. M. Eastern also on cspan3. Now a conversation on women in combat from the institute of World Politics. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Okay, i guess we can get going. Welcome to everyone. My name is owens. We are an independent security school. We offer three masters degrees. We offer an executive and professional masters as well. In addition we have 18 certificates. Were very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyar. We have a great speaker who is done a great deal of work in this area. Its a topical topic as you know. I think the department of redundancy department. But as i say we are cosponsoring this with the center for military and diplomatic history. And mark moyar, to say a couple words and i will introduce our moderator. Im dr. Mark moyar. I wanted to thank dr. Owens, and katie bridges and kevin dunne, you have done a wonderful job organizing this event. Thanks also to Lindsay Markell and daniel, the Foreign Policy initiative. We do events on history that
P. M. E p. M. Eastern also on cspan3. Now a conversation on women in combat from the institute of World Politics. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Okay, i guess we can get going. Welcome to everyone. My name is owens. We are an independent security school. We offer three masters degrees. We offer an executive and professional masters as well. In addition we have 18 certificates. Were very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyar. We have a great speaker who is done a great deal of work in this area. Its a topical topic as you know. I think the department of redundancy department. But as i say we are cosponsoring this with the center for military and diplomatic history. And mark moyar, to say a couple words and i will introduce our moderator. Im dr. Mark moyar. I wanted to thank dr. Owens, and katie bridges and kevin dunne, you have done a wonderful job organizing this event. Thanks also to Lindsay Markell and daniel, the Foreign Policy initiative. We do events on history that
Have been with an average age of 25th. Averages average. That means quite a few of the fleet are substantially older. The shocking statistic, more than half of our our forces are not sufficiently ready today for our highend play. Interfere with you. You did your defenses and the like. More than half of our forces are not sufficiently. I think we also realize that demand we do that and alltime high all around the certainly its dangerous complex and constantly changing the that i can ever remember in the 34 years that i have been. Have to join my colleagues and say that a budgetary trajectory that resulted in sequestration is not going to allow us to sustain the space. Let me now do my plays became. I believe sequestration is going to place american lives at greater risk at home and abroad. Sequestration remains the law of the land in the United States air force simultaneously be able to defeat in adversary and one for cant deny a 2nd adversary the objective a seat as well is the from th
Privilege of operating. Admiral greenert cannot be here due to a death in his family but im joined by the very able vice chief, admiral michelle howard. Uniquely, the navy and marine corps provide presence around the globe around the clock. The nations first line of defense. Presence means we respond faster. We remain on station longer. We carry everything we need with us. And we do whatever missions are assigned by our nations leaders without needing anyone elses permission. We have always known americas success depends on exceptional navy and marine corps. Article one of the constitution, which you quoted mr. Chairman authorizes congress to raise an army when needed. But directs it to provide and maintain a navy. From the first six frigates to our growing fleet of today from tripoli to afghanistan sailors and the marines have proven the founders wisdom. American leaders across the spectrum have understood the vital significance of the sea power. We deploy in peace just as much as in
The state of colorado and the workforce men and women of for your presence there. And i thank you for that. On the Virginia Class Program along with the virginia payload module and the ohio replacement, as we faced significant budget challenges, secretary, can you tell us how is your ability to keep those programs on track at the president s budget level or if we have to drop back to bca levels or even worse, how is it impacted if sequestration goes into effect to keep those programs on track . Especially given the challenges we face with the submarine forces declining if we dont keep those on track just at the same time our adversaries in china especially are increasing their size of their fleets. Thank you, congressman. The Virginia Class Program is a model program. As you know we signed a ten boat multiyear, where we got 10 submarines for the price of nine because of this committees support in allowing us to do the multiyear. To break a multi year because of lack of funds, that is p