Government owes the responsibility for the cost about that milestone i would be happy to sit down with Committee Staff to walk through what you need to ensure that you do have confidence that all of the statutory requirements in terms of cost estimate doc Acquisition Program and documentations is just like a milestone in be will prepare them for you and walk through it with hugh if we need to establish a milestone. I dont hesitate to do that. Is important to have that very specific items even with the initial testimony that they would cost 200 million and it when you have been asked to justify those changes against it will be good to have the specific items to check off if we go forward. We will work with the staff Going Forward. If i may, i would say all of these are modifications at least 100 million per ship that cost has not been independent validated but if were that close to have everything ready for the milestone the muscats have the milestone. Although there are not legal requi
In a program chosen for affordability that the gao has reported has doubled in cost with a potential for future overruns. Like so many major programs that preceded it though cs failure predictably from an inability to stabilize requirements and roofs date cost estimates and unreliable assessments of technical and integration risks race made worse by repeatedly buying ships ignition packages before proving they are affected and can be operate together. What is so disturbing is that these problems were not unforeseen. In 2002, the navy first requested congress authorize funding for the lcs program. After reading the plan that two Armed Services committees said quote lcs has not been vetted through the pentagons top requirements. The second article of the joint requirements oversight counsel the Navy Strategy for the lcs does not clearly identify the plan and funding for development in the valuation of Mission Packages upon which the operational capabilities of lcs will depend. Despite su
Capabilities to counter here adversarys like china and russia. Joining me is my guest who served as the air force controller before taking his current post. Welcome to the program. Thank you very much. Vago im glad you are here. Many people saw the decision as an indication of shifting priorities from somewhat lower and systems to higher end. What was the logic under that decision . You have got into one of the core strategic considerations. In the course of the fall at the review, we looked whole range of the departments capabilities as we do each year. Processeson wide encompasses the secretary of defense. This year secretary ash carter gave us clear guidance early in the process. We are fighting posture versus presence in the world. He said, focus on the capabilities and the capacity necessary to fight and win wars because by doing that, thats how the United States most effectively deters those conflicts from emerging. The lcs decision really stemmed from that, but it was in a sense
Against the terrorist threat. So the idea is we sit together almost every day in the National Security council in the situation room x youll have a terrorist or terrorist group, and well each go around the table with all of the different authorities and expertise we bring to bear and say how do we disrupt them, stop them overseas before they can do an attack. For us though, when we realize looking at some of the success we had against the terrorist threat, that we needed to get better to applying that model when it came to cybersecurity nets. So over the last several years, weve reorganized in the division to do things like train prosecutors in every u. S. Attorneys office across the country to, on the one hand, handle that which is on the classified side sensitive sources, methods, what threats are and on the other hand, learn about bits and bites and the specific laws that apply to computer hacking like the Electronic Communications privacy act. And then send those trained prosecutor
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