[inaudible discussion] good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis layman auditorium. We join white house join us on the heritage. Org web site and those chinaing us on cspan booktv in the future. Those here inhouse we ask that courtty heck that our mobile devices of various sort have been silenced or turned off. Those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or commentses at any time. Simply email us as speaker heritage. Org and we will post the program on the heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guests today and leading our program is dakotawoods, Senior Research fellow for defense programs and our center for national seps defense, mr. Wood served our nation for two deck theyd u. S. Marine concerned, including strategic analyst for the commandants of the marine corps and the office of the offers of net assessment. Upon retirement he helped organize the National Biosurveillance integration statement at the department of homel
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Getting numerous reports of that. Clouds will continue to spill in over the low cloud deck with the lows all in the 50s and the Oakland Airport at 59 degrees here. Even to the south a few 40s in the Santa Cruz Mountains but san martin and guild award also at 49 with santa clara at 34. It is still a west breeze but look for a lot of cloud cover going back into a rainy pattern and nothing compared to january and february but things will start picking up by the weekend with 50s and 60s near the water. We got busy all of the sudden. We did get busy. We do have a lot of slow traffic and the slowest right now or at least one of the areas is highway 24 westbound driving up to the tunnel due to some earlier problems and they are gone it was a noninjury crashed near the tunnel all of the lanes are clear but the traffic is taking a while to unwind with close lanes and that is what caused all of this slow traffic here in lafayette and also in orinda. This is a look at the bay bridge with the traf
Phase three in particular, 630 million towards epaa phase three to include the second agency. We anticipate beginning construction in 2016 of the tcd by tend of 2018. We continue procurement of missiles, continue to deliver missiles to the fleet. We continue the development at a pace of 106 million and that program went through two successful flight tests in 2015. With two intercept tests scheduled later this year and then another intercept test scheduled in early 17. For thad, one unit is deployed to guam in 2013 in response the north korean threat in the pacific area of operations. We continue procuremen of that equipment including 24 interceptors for 370 million request. By the end of 17 it will deliver 61 additional interceptors to the army by tend of 2017 for a total of 205. Shift gears to sensors and space. Continue work on deployment and testing and sustainment of the radars. The air force uawr, total of just under 500 million is requested in this area. Continue to support the s
Say is under the control of extremist groups like isil . Isil and daesh control the area in and around sirt. I couldnt give you exact percentage. The other places have transitory effect. Would you consider libya at this point a failed state . Yes, sir. Thank you all very much for your service. Thank you, mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses. I echo the comments about the appreciation for the service. The many times you have been before this committee. General rodriguez, i want to ask a couple of questions touching on each of your expertise about the training we do with foreign militaries and in africa i know the u. S. Military is a preferred training partner in many nations seek our assistance. I kind of like to have you talk about the success of those training efforts over the course of your three years in the position and what other nations do significant training of African Military . I view this as one of the most Cost Effective investments that we make. I would like to hear y