Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Major general will spend the next few minutes [inaudible] watch is complete he will take questions and youll be moderating this discussion. Please limit it to one question or one followup. That allows anybody an opportunity to try to get questions. So without further ado, general horlander. So good afternoon. Great to be back in again and see some family faces here and i really appreciated the opportunity to present to the overview of the armies 2018 budget request. More importantly i will tell you i and even more so pleased to be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform as an army soldier. So theres always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here and, in the process of provide an overview of what the army is doing today. I will sketch out the current operating environment, where our physical posture has look like over the last five to six years and have this request supports the administration and the Army Leadership pr
The army, navy and air force and Missile Defense. This is two and a half hours. Once hes complete, he will take questions. He will moderate questions. Without further adieu general. Good afternoon, great to be back here again and seeing some familiar faces here. I appreciate the opportunity to present to you the over view of the 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am everyone more so pleased to be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform as an army soldier so it is always something that inspires me. I will take a few minutes here and in the process of providing an over view of what the army is doing today, i will sketch out the operating environment of our fiscal posture have looked like over the last five or six years and how this is in the priorities. Of course, i will spend some time providing appropriation review a reviews and some reviews. Americas army is more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that th
The army, navy and air force and Missile Defense. This is two and a half hours. Once hes complete, he will take questions. He will moderate questions. Without further adieu general. Good afternoon, great to be back here again and seeing some familiar faces here. I appreciate the opportunity to present to you the over view of the 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am everyone more so pleased to be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform as an army soldier so it is always something that inspires me. I will take a few minutes here and in the process of providing an over view of what the army is doing today, i will sketch out the operating environment of our fiscal posture have looked like over the last five or six years and how this is in the priorities. Of course, i will spend some time providing appropriation review a reviews and some reviews. Americas army is more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that th
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
Branch. He is going to deliver his presentation, roll out the navys budget and then well go over some ground rules and take some questions. Good afternoon. As he mentioned im brian lute luther and i want to thank you ft. Opportunity to brief the fiscal year 2018 president budget submission in which i will address our portion of the second step of the department of defenses multiyear effort to restore readiness. The brief will be broken into four parts. The first will briefly review the current and evolving strategic guidance. The second, provides the operational context in which the naval forces operate in todays world. The third ill review historical challenges that underlie the requirement for the current readiness reset. And finally,ly provide a summary by appropriation group. The National Level guidance that provided us the mission sets which drove the operations of the last decade are under review. Earlier this month the department of defense began a defense Strategic Review. This