Opportunity to present to you the overview of the armys 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am even more more so pleao be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform, as an army soldier. So, thats always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here in the process of providing an overview of what the army is doing today. Ill sketch out the current operating environment, what our fiscal posture has looked like over the last five to six years and how this request supports the administrations and the Army Leaderships priorities. And then of course ill spend some time to provide a biapproach ration review of some of the details of the armys request. We are increasingly more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that the current pictorial on the slide before you not only represents some of the Current Operations where army forces are heavily engaged, but it should remind us all of the velocity of instability
On efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing Global Threats to military readiness. This is an hour. All right. Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And today rolling out a report on Army Modernization. Called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin thanking the sponsors of that study because without sponsors we dont get to do studies. This was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics, d. R. S. Technologies, part ofley nardo and l3, as well. So we want to thank them for their support. Im going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80ish pages but a pretty quick read with a lot of pictures. I urge you to read the whole thing. Ill hit the highlights and well bring up our dis
On efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing Global Threats to military readiness. This is an hour. All right. Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And today rolling out a report on Army Modernization. Called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin thanking the sponsors of that study because without sponsors we dont get to do studies. This was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics, d. R. S. Technologies, part ofley nardo and l3, as well. So we want to thank them for their support. Im going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80ish pages but a pretty quick read with a lot of pictures. I urge you to read the whole thing. Ill hit the highlights and well bring up our dis
Modernization. I want to begin by thanking sponsors of that study. Without sponsors we dont get to because do studies. This study was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics. Drs technologies and l3 as well. I want to thank them of their support. I will briefly walk through the chief of findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80 pages. Its a pretty quick read. Theres a lot of pictures. I urge you to go read whole thing. I will hit the highlights. And then we will bring up our distinguished panel to give us the real scoop on Army Modernization, how we should think about and what we should do with it. I want to start by saying with this study weve always every time we talked about it, we had to start by saying this is not a critique of arm acquisition. This is a look at if you start with a premise that the army needs to modernize, how does it develop a strategy for doing that which it can clearly and forcefully communicate within the army, within the dep
Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Next, a look at military readiness and increasing terrorism threats, hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. They focused on Chemical Warfare and modernization of the army. The discussion is an hour. All right, thank you, everyone, for sticking around as we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event, where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And csis is today rolling out a report on Army Modernization called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. And i want to begin by thanking the sponsors of that study, because without sponsors, we dont get to do studies. And this study was sponsored by a combination of support from General Dynamics drs technologies, part of leonardo, and all three, as well. So we want to thank them for their support. Im going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80ish page