Ladies and gentlemen, were going to get started here. Ladies and gentlemen, im captain hope cronin, air force public affairs. Thank you for being with us. First, just to reiterate ground rules. One question, one followup, please, so we can get to as many questions as possible. Additionally, ill give a final question towards the end. As a reminder, tomorrow at 9 30 in the morning well have the air force space budget rollout, that is a separate budget rollout. If you would like more information about that, please find me afterwards and ill give you further details. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, general martin and ms. Gleason. Good afternoon, im general james martin and im joined by my associate, carolyn gleason. I think what youll see in this budget is that our message and our budget is consistent with what weve done over the last two years. For the last seven years, though, american airmen have always been there, breaking barriers, dominating the high ground, and providing
Its really going to depend on the local environment. So, how how about southwest florida . Well, this is one of the reasons we need a supplemental to give resources so we can look at mosquito populations, trap them, analyze them and then sometimes larva siting can have an impact on mosquito populations. Your point is quite correct that the outdoor spraying may have limited impact, if any, on the mosquito population, but were looking at different ways of doing mosquito control. And in some circumstances what theyve done in australia, for example, is use targeted indoor residual spraying for this particular mosquito with as far as weve seen some pretty effective results. But all of that is quite complex to do. And let me see if just taking off on that point so that i understand it correctly. Because, again, we want to get in the game here legislatively so im not just asking to take your time here. Like a lot of things it always impacts the poor. And people that, you know, lifes never fai
I want to talk about an area that i talk to you once before about Community Banks they were not the speculators that brought about the financial collapse then theyre trying to figure out a way to remain relevant. During the tarp time the preferred stock of Community Banks or now held by treasury considerations of treasury to make it easier to be able to recoup theyre preferred stock. We share the view that Community Banks way a Critical Role in local economies and in creating an engine for Small Business growth and local economic activity. We have in the incb t. A. R. P. Program to work with Community Banks. Appreciated. I was interested in your exchange in regards to the us harmonize with the Unit International community and the fact that we have high Corporate Tax rates and i i also was interested in the exchange on simplification where you are trying sen. Wyden wants to get the code much more simplified command i agree. I would put in the plug that you take a a look at the progressi
And reserve components. The top block is what we refer to as nonblue, which is a portion of the air force budget that is not directly under our control thats managed by other departments or agencies. The remainder of the budget or air force blue budget is the focus for todays brief. In the bracketed area youll see air force blue budget for fy 2016 is 122. 2 billion or roughly 20 of dods 2016 budget. Of the 2. 2 billion air force blue budge 77 billion or 63 represent daytoday operations. Military and civilian pay, which make up approximately 52 of day to day operating costs. Flying hours weapons system sustainment, approximately 40 . Facility requirements and Installation Support represent remaining 8 of the total operating cost. The gray boxes at the bottom highlight our top procurement and largest rte programs. These programs total approximate 6 of our investment accounts. So hopefully you can see the largest portions of our budget are in people, readiness and future capability. When
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