With us mr. John roth performing the duties of the understand secretary of defense for comptroller and the joint staff director for forestructure, resources and assessment. The briefing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with a few opening comments from both gentlemen, then well open the floor to questions. With that. Thank you eric. Good morning or good afternoon almost here. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise you. Its there for reference in case i have to go to it. So, again, we will walk through our presentation of the budget here. Between the general and myself, well try to answer your questions as best we can. As you know, today the president , president trump, sent to congress his proposed fy 2018 budget request. What we will do here this afternoon is outline the request for the Defense Department. Go to the first slide, please. The message is really, on the first slide, is the intent is that fy 18 bud
With us mr. John roth performing the duties of the understand secretary of defense for comptroller and the joint staff director for forestructure, resources and assessment. The briefing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with a few opening comments from both gentlemen, then well open the floor to questions. With that. Thank you eric. Good morning or good afternoon almost here. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise you. Its there for reference in case i have to go to it. So, again, we will walk through our presentation of the budget here. Between the general and myself, well try to answer your questions as best we can. As you know, today the president , president trump, sent to congress his proposed fy 2018 budget request. What we will do here this afternoon is outline the request for the Defense Department. Go to the first slide, please. The message is really, on the first slide, is the intent is that fy 18 bud