Senator donnellys question about your concern about count fitted parts. And i believe you said that you do have a concern about that. I just wanted to ask you one question though. You do have a concern about counterfeit parts. I i heard that correctly. Yes. I was wondering if you are aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure it is not a counterfeit part. Senator im not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you can embed in it. What i am aware of is that our Quality Control folks at places like crane indiana that the senator was talking about are exceptionally good at spotting those counterfeits. I am aware of a particular product i would love to talk with you further in a different context. Regarding your Energy Efforts we do need a sustained longterm commitment to research and development in this area and meeting our Energy Security needs and preserving the superiority of our forces in the face of Energy Supply challenges in the 21st century are
Building up their military presence in crimea . Ambassador nuland . Yes, sir. Mr. Poe that would seem to me that they are there to stay. What do you think . Ambassador nuland i think we need to maintain the pressure and we have to maintain the cost and we have to keep mr. Poe when i talked to the president of ukraine last year asking what we could do, he replied that they would prefer that we send something other than canned food to them, which is what we were doing0 are we what we were doing. Are we still talking about help them fight for their own freedom, giving the military eight . Or are we actually doing it . Ambassador nuland we have provided 118 million in Security Assistance. I can give you a rundown, but it improves counter fire radar batteries, communication equipment, counterjamming, a suite of emergency medical, all those things training, and we will continue to look at what we can do. Mr. Poe that is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . Ambassador nuland
Ill start from sip the fact were going have to deal not only with nation states that are going to have crises and groups and individuals that are highly empowered and able to bring threat against nation of the capability most addressing the likely. The second thing, we have to bring down the alliance on Strategic Deterrent and increase the reliance on other capability and tools diplomatic and military for strategic defense. The technology and capabilities and the architecture that would allow us to have those kinds of capabilities at the strategic level to deter conflict and increase other options so that our state options dont run out prematurely or less than effective against the wide range of threat. We have to increase the tools on the state craft to prevent these thick things. Making sure its still an element of membership and nato. You commit to your defense goals. The second thing i would say is to really look at those things which could enable nato at large to take greater adva
The committee will come to order. I want to thank you all for joining us here today as we consider the fiscal year 2015 budget request for the department of the air force. I appreciate our witnesses testimony and their support for our airmen. Joining us today are the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark sub to chief of staff of the air force and he has brightened up the room a little bit by inviting his wife that betty and his daughter lives to be with us. Thank you for joining us. I want to especially welcome secretary james the 23rd secretary of the air force as this is her first Posture Hearing before a committee. We are also delighted that she is the former house staff member and in fact we were talking before we came in here and she pointed out to us where one of her offices was in her tenure on the staff. We are happy to have you back. Welcome back. This committee and you general welsh have warned about the consequences of the cuts to our Defens
I wrote it and i will be happy to field your questions. It is great to have something to refer to give in the corporate takeover and id like to begin with we did not have so much time and that you try to control the people who are supplying the commodity of the supply and demand. And we dont spend enough time on these resources on the demandside strategy. I am actually hoping young people make healthy choices and we are talking about minimizing the harms of marijuana and what we need it to be about with this initiation. Because that is what we need to do. If we can protect children and help them make smarter decisions, we want to do that. That is a major battle. Once children get to be 21, 25 years old, preferably in age, the risks are diminished demonstrably. So in this powerpoint, most of us would agree, we do have some questions. First, what are the egg increases in heavy use. We have to consider the factors. Alcohol use has actually fallen since 1970. And its then that in the absen