Institute, this is one hour. [indiscernible] im honored to have with us to have with us the assistant secretary of the navy, the navy comptroller, Russell Rumbaugh. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He has worked in a variety of positions at dod, on the hill, and think tanks, and he most recently came into the department of the navy from aerospace corporation. Previously he had worked at the Simpson Center and other places here in d. C. , the Congressional Research service for many years, and he began his career as a u. S. Army infantry officer. You dont talk about that with the navy folks. Navy i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much the navy took from them this year. [laughter] its a pleasure to have him here for this discussion. We will also be taking discussion from the audience in the room and online. So, when we turn to that, if you are online you can go ahead and start asking questions on the site where i get to read the questions off the ip
A front row seat to democracy. Next, a discussion on the navys priorities and budget for the upcoming fiscal year with Navy Secretary for Financial Management. From the American Enterprise institute, this is an hour. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I am honored to have here today for our discussion the assistant secretary of the navy, assistant secretary of the navy for Financial Management and comptroller, otherwise known as navy comptroller. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He most recently came into the department of the navy from the Aerospace Corporation and previously worked at another think tank here in d. C. He actually began his career as a u. S. Infantry officer. Maybe i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much money it is a pleasure to have you here for this discussion. We will also be taking questions from the audience, both in the room and online. You can go ahead and start emailing and questions, i think there is a link on the s
Special consideration of the United States and the future. Its not going to be subject to the same budget control rules as the other expenditures. Last night steve corn aky show showed an interview about how you and he were gym buddies and turned marco rubio around on immigration and used the gym as a Hunting Ground to turn people over. Who are some of your targets that you might like to was Chuck Schumer lying . I go to the senate gym daily. He said that republicans go early and democrats go late. Yes. I tend to be thats why i try to be there first at 5 30. I go there every day for no obvious reason. A way to relieve stress. The first one there is an Orthopedic Surgeon from wyoming. We talk about these issues. And theres an opportunity there. Your guard is down when youre sweating and puffing and all the rest of this stuff. To talk about some of these issues. I have solved some big problems in the gym with my colleagues. I caught them at a vulnerable moment, you know. I think approach
To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. Unacceptable. And i fully expect the navys ongoing study of alternative Aircraft Carrier designs to provide real options. In all three of the lcs Mission Packages most overcome Major Technology integration challenges to deliver the promised warfighting capability. Building the first ohio class replacement submarine building the first flight three destroyer with the new Missile Defense radar, radar, radar. In Naval Aviation it will take strong leadership to oversee the smooth and timely integrati
Why dont we get started since time is short. Good afternoon, everyone. I serve as the director of defense studies here at the center for National Interest in washington, d. C. Welcome to our friends here with us in the flesh as well as those joining us on Facebook Live and as well as cspan 3. We present to you a real treat. Not one but two part discussion on u. S. Missile defense policy. Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me on the right, senator tom cotton from arkansas. Part two, keynote address, as well as a q and a session. Now, im going to keep my remarks very brief as we want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible. Obviously it goes without saying that washington faces severe challenges when it comes to the missiles and proliferation of missiles throughout the world. Obviously north koreas very much in the news it due to the developments of its short, long range missiles and its ability to actually at some point hit the homeland. Senator cotton has been