To show them the best web site, how to show them the best information from their friends is constantly trying to assess what makes the best Information Service for you. At the same time, universities for the last 20 years as weve moved more and more social Exchange Online have been moving to think about this as a social environment. This is the public square. So there are plenty of universities, plenty of researchers like myself who have come up with, you know, over the years come up with Research Projects that have to do with studying peoples experiences online. And in both those cases theres as much interest in figuring out what it is that people do as there is in people figuring out how to navigate those spaces. So theres both wanting to know what people do and people wanting to figure out the best way to find information. Theres two different threads of research that go on. Host how sophisticated is it getting . Guest um, what part . Host the research part. Guest you know, we have,
Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first comment i would make is over the last two years where above the level of sequestration and the army was only 33 ready. And so yes flexibility will give us the ability to manage insufficient funds in our department but thats all it does. It allows us to better manage because today we extend our aviation programs so the cost for every apache has gone up to the cost for every ua 60 has gone up. The cost for every ch47 has gone up because we have extend the programs longer and longer so we are paying m
The orion and sls the vanguard of the program are the key to advancing these interests. I look forward to hearing from mr. Gerstenmaier and ms. Chaplain about the challenges and opportunities facing these important programs. I now recognize the Ranking Member from maryland. Its been a good morning to the witnesses. I want to join the chair man in congratulating nasa, lockheed, United Launch Alliance and the Contractor Team on conducting the exploration test of the orion capsule last week and i think that it was exciting and i know that around the country and around the world there were many of us working on Solution Division for the first time in a long time at the u. S. Space program that is very forwardlooking. They are below the orbits to test and verify the design can reduce technical risk and recover ability operations. Mr. Chairman, i belief that this Shows Americans the tangible progress is in fact being made on returning humans to exploration beyond earths neighborhood in the g
Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyone accuses me of saying this i will deny it. Let me ask you this general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of the a10 are the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems yes or no . No maam, not at all and there is an investigation currently ongoing with the incident. When i read the newspaper article i contacted the general officer invo
Command general and they are in regards to addressing a group of airmen this month. What he has said to have made in comments to the airmen was anyone who is passing information to congress about these capabilities is committing treason. As part of those comments he has also said that if anyone accuses me of saying this, i will deny it. Let me just tell you general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems . No, maam, not at all. There is investigation currently ongoing with that incident. And i actually contacted the general involved and his commander and the department of defense is overseeing an investigation being run by isaf eiji. And they will present that as soon as the investigation is complete. I hope that this is a thorough investigation because obviously, i think its very serious to accuse peo