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 priorities, then of course all spend some time providing a by appropriation reviewed some of the details at the armies request. Americas army is increasingly more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. With authority that the card 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 across the road and have the same pictorial continue to change in the years to come. This observation alone makes it increasingly clear that the ability to simultaneous conduct Decisive Action, major combat operations while maintaining our counterinsurgency competencies for the current fight or present the most demanding challenge that the army faces. Properly resourced and trained, and ready army can perform successfully across this full Spectrum Operations but it must also continue to advance its capacity and capabilities for tomorrows complex. Today ground force remained the most globally committed u. S. Military force with more than 100 80,000 u. S. Army soldiers from the active component, the National Guard and reserve committed to combatant command missions in over 140 countries worldwide. America soldier struck to contribute to our nations efforts to defeat isis, support governance in afghanistan and to do to accomplish threat europe, and the middle east. This data demand for trained and ready army units provides our nation with the billy to defeat adversaries, assure our allies and deter potential aggressive while this depicts Current Operations were Americas Army is engaged, the next fight could represent an existential strategic challenge those by peer powers. Some with nuclear capabilities, advanced technologies and large a more sophisticated militaries. While it is difficult to define with precision the character of future warfare, its broad outlines can be anticipated. We should plan on all domains of warfare being contested. A technologically sophisticated and numerically superior enemy that initially possesses positional advantage. These anticipated attributes of future warfare demand continued investment not only current competencies of the armys future capacity and capabilities in order to protect Americas National security interest both today and tomorrow. Inducting Current Operations consisting current readiness and making progress towards a more modern capable and lethal future army will require predictable, consistent funding yeartoyear. The armys fy 18 request take simple steps to improve readiness in close vulnerable to get for supporting the groundwork for future force ready to face the changing threats of tomorrow. Its about to start by looking at the armys budget over time. And providing a little commentary that may inform your views of the armys current funding requested as you can secluded from the truck the armys ace budget has been on the decline since 2012 base that you want inflation during the same time. As avidly one and 2. 5 . The 2017 defense appropriation act at the fy 18 request represents an upturn in the armys suppress toppling funny sense of the mentation of the budget control act and starts to ouarrest the armys reduce decle that fits the condition for approving the current and future readiness of the force. The basic budget represented on this chart and as you know is meant to man train and equip the nations army has been severely impacted by the budget control act as this optic to fix therefore joined the army has been able to maintain some court were fighting readiness with the flexibly provided through two bipartisan budget agreements in the oco funding provided by our government. The market decrease in our basement level over the past few years had forced the army to more good longterm investment for the benefit for nearterm readiness. Likewise in oco not fully represent on this chart its large Contingency Operations have become smaller, the armys oco budget has been reduced consistent with requirements atf the Contingency Operations where supporting. As is clear portrayed on this chart the funding levels of the recently enacted 17 budget and this 18 days request are consistent with the administrations goals the u. S. Army to rebuild readiness, reverse in strength reductions and prepare for future challenges. With this fy 18 president s budget submission the following are some of the main highlights of our request. First and foremost the budget has been formulated to provide the combatant commands with the best trained and ready land forces we can generate. To do that we must fully find the counterterrorism and counterinsurgency competencies necessary for the current fight while also building Decisive Action capabilities for potential major combat operations consistent with the threats that some near peer nationstates may pose. That requires the army to increase its global responsiveness capabilities and support regional engagements and Partnership Activities with our allies to the budget request for the sustained a force of 1 million and 18,000 soldiers across the total army with reenlisted and specialized training in the best maintained equipment we can provide. We are able to focus some of our resources on the armys installations and infrastructure needs to better support the operations and training of the force. With this but you able to sustain the armys modernization programs and investment programs to advance soldier and technological overmatch capabilities. We do all this while seeking to achieve the highest levels of accountability and stewardship to maximize the purchasing power of the armys budget. This budget and those that follow should provide army necessary resources to conduct Current Operations, improve current readiness and make progress towards a more modern, capable and lethal future army. Provided predictable and consistent fun is available in a timely manner and that a funny level commensurate with current and future demands on the force. The topical discussion that follows highlights both the priorities we used to format the budget and the components of this 2010 budget request to cheat Senior Leader priorities and objectives to achieve the u. S. Armies ultimate goal of remaining the best lead, equipped and most ready ground force in the world. The armys based budget request is 137. 2 billion, an increase of almost dollars, an increase of almost 7 billion over the fy 17 enacted amount. For the base. As you should observe with a margin of growth that are notable increases in military pay. A winwin for operations and maintenance, and infrastructure to support the larger in strength. This slide represents funding requirements for all three components of the army. The regular army, the National Guard and army reserve. And theres a breakout across the major defense appropriations. Wwell talk about each appropriation in more detail in such slides. However, i take this opportunity to point out at the aggregate level where much of the growth is represented. The 2017 National Defense authorization act reversed a previously planned in the strength decline and authorize a total army and a strength of 1,002,000 soldiers. A much appreciated start to ensuring the army has fully manned formations. The increase in this fy 18 request goes to covering the readiness requirements of that growth both military pay and funding for training the force. Additionally i know is able to leverage the growth to address recurring readiness shortfalls primary and her own in the funded operation in your training and infrastructure. Only a small portion of the growth remain to apply to our future modernization accounts. I will walk you through the details in subsequent discussions. So i will start with our mail count because i provide you a clear picture of army in strength levels and how to remain stable from 17 as a language requirement reversibly continue to increase the demand on the land force of carbon. Many of you are aware that use army into strength has declined markedly in recent years. The army corp accordingly had rd its fourth structure for stricter void build a hollow army. With the recent authorized increase to the 1 million, 80,000 of the arm has been able to increase personal readiness, fill some holes in his formation and soar some of the Necessary Force structure changes. The fy 18 budget request maintains this increased into strength. The army will achieve this increase to elicit an officer a session and retake the Funding Association with this efforts is represented in the following slide. Military personal appropriation accounts for the largest portion of the army space budget. Our request funds a over 1 million soldiers and covers pay, allowances recruiting retention an incentives, permit change station moves and mandates are some training in the reserve components. Given our initial end strength ramp in fy 17 and subsequent reversal and full sustainment in 18 of the 1,000,018 forceful because you request is a fall 2. 8 billion higher than the fy 17 enacted amount. The armys increase in strength and the rate increases and our soldiers basic pay cut Housing Allowance and subsistence account for this growth. I won a transition to the armys operations and maintenance appropriations. As i mentioned this is one area where we are requesting growth on the current years budget. Starting with the regular army, the 2010 budget request totals 38. 9 billion and seeks to resource a more balanced readiness across the force. This readiness is more than being prepared for a current day Contingency Operations but includes readiness for Decisive Action missions with the capability to conduct a major combat operations. This spectrum of readiness is reflected in the armys 19 combat Training Center rotations for which we are seeking funding. These rotations are focused on Decisive Action training for both regular army and reserve components. The armys request provides for critical funding for engagement activities with our allies and Strategic Partners for Training Missions such as pacific pathways which some of your family with. This request will cover the sustainment of the armys equipment and represents a small increase in maintenance to help bring our equipment to a greater level of repair and by enhancing army prepositio preposition sf improve Global Response capabilities. This request supports base Operations Support requirements on the armys 74 major installations. Funding it at the 98 , at 98 of the critical requirement. Fortunately we were also able to increase Facilities Sustainment funding from 67 of the critical requirement of last year to 75 for this year. These funding levels are consistent across all three army components. While represent an improvement over recent years we still assume risk across our installations. As a large amount of backlog maintenance still exists across the force. The armys 2010 budget request supports 10. 2 billion owing a requirement for the army National Guard and the u. S. Army reserve. For the army National Guard its 2018 request is also not only higher than 2017 funding level, consistent consistent with the regular army it seeks to restore readiness and base Operations Support as well as provide funding to continue supporting families and soldier programs to promote the wellbeing of the armys most viable asset, our people. For the use army reserve there are 2. 9 billion o m budget request support 77 functional brigades. Its three installations over 840 reserve centers and the professional education and specialized skills tranfourteen 199,000 soldiers. Having spent a few minutes discussing army neutral readiness and manning the force, lets now transition to army modernization. The armys fy 18 research, development and acquisition budget request of 26. 8 billion present an increase of 600 million from the fy 17 enacted level. That and enact a level that includes a pretty sizable uptick because of the amendment that was recently included and the fy 17 appropriation act. However i would say the majority of this increase is more so in Research Development testing and evaluation candidates in the procurement accounts as you will see. This budget request represents modernization priorities that we must pursue in order to advance Material Solutions that enable the army to retain our advantage against advanced adversaries and to address a broader range of potential threats. This request prioritizes requirements necessary to deter, and if required, defeat near peer adversaries. The army is accepting risk in developing of new capabilities in order to prioritize enfamil upgrades of our ground and air systems so that we can put in the hands of our soldiers in the near term a greater and more lethal capability. In the upper righthand quadrant of the chart you will see a list of the armys top ten modernization priorities. Im going to break a script here. This important list that as i go through the remainder of this briefing you will see me kind of go in order here ace upon these top ten priorities but these are really important. As you try to understand how we made some choices across our modernization portfolios. These were developed as result of the strategic portfolio Analysis Review process to prioritize limited modernization funding in order to balance nearterm readiness requirements against longterm force development. We call this thus far, spar process allows army leaders to review and address are most critical capability gaps or to make informed decision within existing resources. In the next two charts i will highlight how our budget request supports these priorities. The lower right pie chart shows the army 11 largest of the portfolios. What i ask you to take away from this is that the army requires a broad comprehensive set of modernization efforts in order to successfully execute the diverse missions the combat commanders require. So let me transition to the procurement portion of our research, development and acquisition or our modernization portfolios. Our fy 18 request of 17. 4 billion is consistent with what we saw in 18 come if not just slightly below that, or 17 come excuse. As mentioned in the previous slide, and this budget request the army has focused its modernization efforts within the ten priorities areas. These priorities will ensure we allocate resource to weapon systems, munitions and other critical equipment are units require for a near peer fight. I want to highlight, i will now provide highlights for these ten priorities starting with an air and Missile Defense, the air Missile Defense represent the armys most urgent and pressing capability needs. Given the possibility of confronting a force at substantial access and aerial denial capability the army need to advance its short range air defense and longrange buyers capabilities. This budget request includes funding for several critical air and Missile Defense systems to include the procurement and installation of 131 patriot modification kits and investment in the avenger surface to air Missile System supports an interim modernization plan. In the area of longrange fires who improve our ability to respond effectively to surface to surface fires for artillery and missiles, this budget request includes funding for three of the armys most critical fire systems. The Service Life Extension of 121 expired missiles adding another ten years of service life to them, the procurement of 6000 guided multiple launch rocket system, and the continued low Rate Initial Production of 93 Patriot Missile segment enhancements. The budget accounts for both the armys operational and training munitions requirements, consistent with the efforts to increase our inventory of munitions in 2017, the 2018 request will help ensure the availability of critical munitions for the combatant commands. Three areas to highlight include the increased production of over 80,000 unguided rockets, 48, 480 rounds of war reserve inventory replenishment for the excalibur, and the modernization of ammunition and actual facilities to improve munition production, place depleted stocks and great capacity for increase future demand. For example, the army is pursuing a multiyour effort to improve the army nation ammunition plant in tennessee. In the area of mobility, lethality of protection of our maneuv