Mark esper, secretary of the army. Heather wilson, secretary of the air force, and james gurts, assistant secretary of the navy for Research Development and acquisition. Acquisition reform is one of the most important and frustrating topics this committee addresses. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technological advantage. I hope you all have seen the work by rand on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform. Not just for efficiency or to save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address the threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I want the witnesses to Pay Attention here, okay . Were still dealing with a trilliondollar f35 program that continues to operate in dysfunction. The air force still subsidizes ula for space launch with costplus fixed fee contracts. The army has sunk nearly 6. 5 billion into wint. And that work that doesnt work. A
The Senate Arms Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the acquisition reform efforts. We welcome our witnesses, ellen lord, mark esper, secretary of the army, heather wilson, secretary of the air force, and james gerts, assistant secretary of the navy for ak we ziglaskk acquisition. I hope you all have seen the work by rand on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform, not just for efficiency or to save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address the threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. We will be watching closely to make sure you do business differently and use that authority wisely. Second, while we have empowered the services, that doesnt mean you can go and do whatever you like. The Services Must let osd set strategy and policy and do real oversight. That means being transparent, providing data to and following the guidance set by osd. Agai
Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
D where more than a dozen shipyards really shut her down and leaves us with an industrial basis has for less capacity now. So we need to protect that with everything we can. I think both of you know this but when we stood up at shipyard for mobile, we had the entity under my direction that had to create the workforce for the shipyard in mobile. And we had the lux youre riff time, a whole lot of time, and we had a recession where we had a lot of people lay off. We have exactly the opposite situation right now. We do not have the luxury of time, we have a very active economy where people with those sorts of skills, if we lay them off they can go anywhere and get a job. And its very hard to both train the people that you need to replace them and the people you train will not have the experience that the people theyre replacing had, which means youre going to have a less efficient production schedule. And the ships going to cost more. Which we all dont want the ships to cost more. So i jus
Welcome to the transportation meeting. Our clerk is alberto. Please call the road. Commissioner breed. Absent. Cohen, absent. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner fewer. I am present. Commissioner kim. Kim present. Commissioner peskin present. Commissioner ronen, present. Submissioner safai present. Commissioner sheehy absent. Commissioner yee, present. Can we have a motion to excuse those not here. Well take that without objection. Colleagues, i would like to make a few remarks. The year has started with a bit of good news with the arrival of 10 new bart vehicles which will eventually grow with our help to a fleet of over 1,000 new vehicles. Barts current vehicles are the original set that were put into service over 40 years ago and its clearly time for a facelift. The new cars are spacious, quieter and easier to use, and feature three sets of doors for faster loading and unloading and real time maps and announcements for easy navigation and barts plan is to replace all of their