Cases. Talk about modernization efforts aimed at improving military readiness. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming. I am with the Foreign Policy program and it is my distinct honor to have the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, here with us. Of the armys id on modernization of its future force, but first, a brief introduction and i ask you to give him a big welcome. That a few thoughts by him to frame our topic. We will follow up with a little discussion between him and me and then go to your questions. It will be a crisp, quick session. Mister mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, has a bachelors degree in history which seems appropriate given the aura i have around all of the traditions and histories in the country. Then he joined an Operational Army unit, was deployed to afghanistan during his period as a soldier. He saw combat with the rangers. Since that time, he has done all kinds of additional things you would want somebody to do that has the kind of job he has
Modernization efforts aimed at improving military readiness. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming. I am with the Foreign Policy program and it is my distinct honor to have the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, here with us. Of the armys id on modernization of its future force, but first, a brief introduction and i ask you to give him a big welcome. That a few thoughts by him to frame our topic. We will follow up with a little discussion between him and me and then go to your questions. It will be a crisp, quick session. Mister mccarthy is a proud native of chicago, has a bachelors degree in history which seems appropriate given the aura i have around all of the traditions and histories in the country. Then he joined an Operational Army unit, was deployed to afghanistan during his period as a soldier. He saw combat with the rangers. Since that time, he has done all kinds of additional things you would want somebody to do that has the kind of job he has today. He has work
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Other crew shipping activities, i know what the price per passages if i want to book affair of the crystal serenity, for what . And if im in the crew shipping industry this is a business, so you might want to get in on this business and i fully anticipate that we will see more and more crew shipping into this a very pristine environment coming up in the future as well. So we are not done there. We also looked at what is happening in the cyber domain and i know all of you follow cyber. I look primarily through the Maritime Transportation lens, i was out at long beach earlier this year and it looks like something out of star wars, even though that is where george lucas got that design for those robots, but there are these Autonomous Vehicles moving containers across the yard and there on mans. In fact, they are not even, theyre using natural gas so theres no carbon, very little carbon footprint. But they put they put transponders down beneath the tarmac of this entire tainer terminal and
Saying we need a bigger coast guard, how do you feel about the resource picture now that the fy 17 budget request is in . You mention several of the new major investment strings underway. The growth of the structure and the readiness picture. What most challenges you at this point and executing all of that . I am immensely pleased with our acquisition budget. On the other side we have our operations in maine is, what our operations and maintenance, would cost to do operations and people from under that funding portfolio as well. Were not keeping pace. In fact were fact were not even keeping pace with budget control funding levels. Where funded below that level to sustainer operation so its great that were modernizing, the sustaining piece is still a bit of a challenge for me. Thats work that i need to do in demonstrating how critical that is because lets face it, ive been to enough commissioning ceremonies now more than i have decommissioning ceremonies, thats a good thing, more births