Screeria nigeria. Then the u. N. Secretarygeneral talks about priorityies for the u. N. In the new year. The u. S. Naval academy recently hosted a debate on the role of Air Contractors carriers in u. S. National security environments. Two retired Navy Officers looked at whether the vessels were the most effective and efficient Maritime Defense strategy for the u. S. Military. This is just over an hour. Food good evening. Im c. C. Felker. On behalf of superintendent vice admiral ted carr, i want to welcome those flag officers and navy senior civilian leaders escaped the beltway to join us our distinguish faculty in the indianapolis economy, and most of all our midshipmen, who are the real reason were here tonight. Id like to recognize Lieutenant Commander claude bareby for respond forring this event. Hes continued the transformation of the Naval Academy museum to a more active educational medium for the midshipmen. Tonights debate is representative of his energy and imagination. Id also
With his capabilities. Many of us in Higher Education understood that as a challenge to us as well. I was wondering what Higher Education do to be more supportive and useful to you in your mission . Thank you. Thank you, doug. Coming from an institution like George Washington as i look at academia, i count on us having lots of dialogue associated with deterrence at large. Across the Broad Spectrum that i talked about, from the various areas. Nuclear, space cyberspace, but this business also of extremist organizations who would love to have in their hands a weapons of mass destruction, for example. And then talking about the art of deterrence and what do things can we have in the tool bag . Perhaps some of them are not so new, but to make sure they are being gone about as we go forward. Also, in our nation has a whole the education spectrum particularly in cyberspace. Everybody uses it in a big way but the vulnerabilities associated with things. I could go around and ask everybody to ra
Acquisition reforms tos Bead Technology and systems delopment, and defense to Speed Technology and systems development, and the d defense secretary has gone to Silicon Valley to enga minds. We met with the assistant secretary of defense for resear and engineering. Next month schaefer is headingg to paris for a new job as the head of natos office of collaboration support area diaspora dod is trying to achieve and how it fits into the support of collaboration support. I asked how dod is trying to achieve this and how it fits into the broader goals. Schaeffer all strategies become hollow in less you have the engine to make it work. The engine in this case are the dod laboratories we have a today who can take some of these great products. We have seen a number of search efforts that are taking in the very best of these smsmall companies that secretary carter is reaching out to. But there are some areas where we dont see every company. I really applaud the idea of reaching out to Silicon Va
That we normally dont have heard namely 25 fuel efficiency as an example. We very much would like to have competition on all of our programs. Continues,estration its compounding effects, we may be forced to down select earlier than we would like. That is the risk of sequestration, ok . I would like to give an example that is exactly what had happened on jack comes program. Joint air to ground missile it 30 million mark and then a 69 sequestration on top of that. It is not that we wanted to make the cut, but we were forced to cousin budget shortfall. General posten would you like to add . It is critical not only because as you say we have fuel savings, 25 there. It also has a maintenance savings. It is key to our developmental programs in the future. We are working to get that in the current platforms of and apache but it is also tied to our joint multirole aircraft. Sequestration places this program at risk of having to do it early down select which will, appearsntinue and it that we w
Answer it in two parts. The two takeaways are the terms. Ncertainty and inflexibility uncertainty is the budget environment we are in right now. Not knowingnty of when we are going to have a budget or with the budget is going to be. As a navy, we are asked to with capablence ships to do our nations is this. To do that, we have to plan. We have to plan a strategy, a budget. Aviation andan for ship depot maintenance. We have to train our people and we have to have a plan for that. We also have to have a maintenance schedule. With the uncertainty, it is comes toid, when it the planning. With the inflexibility that we budget environment now, we haveht already seen what happens in 2013 and when we look at 2014, the combination of a continuing resolution and a sequester will impact our training. Its going to reduce the number carriers that we can effectively train. Had two carrier rings then had to go to reduce training. In 14, its going to be more than twice. Half of our carrier air wings w