Pure navy bill, it will devastate some part of the navy either our shipbuilding or readiness or something, because the high cost of these and because we dont recapitalize them very often. If you look back in history there is precedent for either making this a National Program because it is the most survivable leg of our deterrence or building another ship to accommodate it. The freedom in the early 60s to late 60s and the maritime maybe in 72 it was increased pretty dramatically to build these submarines. To show you in 76 to 80, the navy ship fund doubled. Our fleet still climbed by 40 because it simply wasnt enough to do both. Admiral green . Senator, first of all i think its a great start. I think we need to pursue clarity of the intent of the congress. What i mean by that is the legal ramifications for sources of the fundings we could put in there. Is it just other Navy Shipbuilding accounts . Is it just other navy appropriations, or do we mean the whole department of defense could
Senator donnellys question about your concern about count fitted parts. And i believe you said that you do have a concern about that. I just wanted to ask you one question though. You do have a concern about counterfeit parts. I i heard that correctly. Yes. I was wondering if you are aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure it is not a counterfeit part. Senator im not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you can embed in it. What i am aware of is that our Quality Control folks at places like crane indiana that the senator was talking about are exceptionally good at spotting those counterfeits. I am aware of a particular product i would love to talk with you further in a different context. Regarding your Energy Efforts we do need a sustained longterm commitment to research and development in this area and meeting our Energy Security needs and preserving the superiority of our forces in the face of Energy Supply challenges in the 21st century are
Where, why, how did this book come about, why did you write this book. And ive to say that the books actually start in the way, ive been working on this book for almost four years now. While i was working on american sniper which i wrote with chris giles, another great american, one night chris and i were hanging around in his den and were looking at some pictures. The picture came up of some guys were about to go out on a seals mission and endorse one was a lot taliban the other people in the room. And growing slightly different uniform. And i said, who is that big guy . Chris looked at me and, well, its the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. Thats pretty interesting. Tell me about that. Told me that was the translator they call the Johnny Walker and chris letang about some of the missions. I have to say that i write fiction and the story that chris was telling me that is so much more remarkable and more fictional and more thrilling than the stores ive ever come up with. I almost s
29th deal was a test just like the agreed framework and just like the september 19 statement. These three tests may have been different in terms of the speed with which they were failed, and the significance of this action so soon in the air of north koreas new leadership in terms of the federal 29th understanding was not particularly encouraging as prospects for authentic and credible negotiations. Most importantly, for us federal 229th demonstrate north korea was not yet prepared to engage in negotiations with the sickness of purpose necessary to ensure that negotiations would result in concrete denuclearization process. So that was the 29th, 2012. And as you know, little seasons in seoul, washington and beijing were looming. And as north korea watched the elections and Political Activities in those three capitals, it began for another series of actions which would commence in december with another launch, followed with a nuclear test the next year, 2013, followed by period of intens
System, tracing, certification, all of that is addressed within forums such as ours. And collaboration, businesstobusiness and with government regulators to ensure uniform compliance with International Standards and reduced incentives for fraud. The achievements of global food safety forum, we did receive a usda grant and we received Chinese Government in kind support. Weve had several conferences worldwide. We did corporate site visits. We have partners like the center food safety, defense what you probably know of in minnesota, its a consortium of 40 universities. We work closely with food and drug law institute. So these partnerships would like to integrate into these handson activities that we do. Chinese delegations visit to the United States, this year we intend to launch online courses on food safety for Chinese Companies and government regulators. And most certainly in that context there will be fsma compliance courses as well. And launching food safety comment and our big proj