Government owes the responsibility for the cost about that milestone i would be happy to sit down with Committee Staff to walk through what you need to ensure that you do have confidence that all of the statutory requirements in terms of cost estimate doc Acquisition Program and documentations is just like a milestone in be will prepare them for you and walk through it with hugh if we need to establish a milestone. I dont hesitate to do that. Is important to have that very specific items even with the initial testimony that they would cost 200 million and it when you have been asked to justify those changes against it will be good to have the specific items to check off if we go forward. We will work with the staff Going Forward. If i may, i would say all of these are modifications at least 100 million per ship that cost has not been independent validated but if were that close to have everything ready for the milestone the muscats have the milestone. Although there are not legal requi
In a program chosen for affordability that the gao has reported has doubled in cost with a potential for future overruns. Like so many major programs that preceded it though cs failure predictably from an inability to stabilize requirements and roofs date cost estimates and unreliable assessments of technical and integration risks race made worse by repeatedly buying ships ignition packages before proving they are affected and can be operate together. What is so disturbing is that these problems were not unforeseen. In 2002, the navy first requested congress authorize funding for the lcs program. After reading the plan that two Armed Services committees said quote lcs has not been vetted through the pentagons top requirements. The second article of the joint requirements oversight counsel the Navy Strategy for the lcs does not clearly identify the plan and funding for development in the valuation of Mission Packages upon which the operational capabilities of lcs will depend. Despite su
My name is howard unger and on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum it is my honor to welcome you to todays program title, a relentless pursuit bringing holocaust perpetrators to justice. I am the son of holocaust survivor and have served on the council for the u. S. Holocaust museum for the past five years. Ive come to learn that the museum is so much more than just a building that houses exhibits. The museum researches history cup trees educators, members of the military and judiciary, both in the u. S. And internationally and has many programs focus on preventing the future genocides from occurring again. Here in new york, the museums northeast Regional Office offers a variety of of events including talks like the one you are about to hear, plus Film Screenings and programs on holocaust histories as well as contemporary genocides and antisemitism. Tomorrow, well be holding the same program at the synagogue and mount cisco new york. So please encourage your westchest
Bang theory. And so penrose is arguing that all three of these ideas have a place in science. They move progress forward and inspire researchers. But theres also the potential for researchers to be led astray, and he talks about this in relation to three different topics. So quantum mechanics, string theory and cosmology. So this is basically an expert in the field and his take on 21st century physics, a real critique of the field. Colleen boig is a publicist at Princeton University press, and she just gave us a preview of three titles princeton is publishing this fall. When i tune into it on the weekends, usuallyc its authors sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subject. Booktv weekends, they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and im a cspan fan. Good evening. And welcome. My
Mentioned i think its always fun when you can put documents together that casts several different lights, several different kinds of light on the same event and sometimes even the same person saying something differently at different points in time. A little example of that for example, in hemingways novel about the war for whom the bell tolls, the central episode in that novel the blowing up of the bridge behind nationalist lines, hemingway himself part in a. That lou up the bridge and i tell that story in the book. Anyway in that novel he paints an excoriating picture of stalins man who was in charge of the international brigades. When the book appeared in this country, the communist press was outraged because they had expected hemingways muchanticipated book about the war would be about workingclass men from Different Countries standing shouldertoshoulder in the fight against fascism and the hero is a lover of Spanish Literature who is nonpolitical and heres this portrait of stalins