Coupleted in committee a weeks ago and had over 650 amendments submitted to the official mark of the chairman and the subcommittee marks. We process to those amendments and adopted 475 amendments in. Ommittee i want to thank our staff for the incredible amount of work to work with members and various interested parties to get us to that product. I am very pleased we were able to get that done and pass the bill out of the Armed Services committee unanimously 560 with broad support. I want to thank the Ranking Member of the committee for his incredible leadership during this process. Partnereen a terrific as the chairman of the committee and as the Ranking Member. As heill be his last ndaa is retiring from congress. I want to thank him for his great work and leadership. I want to emphasize a point i have made many times, the Armed Services Committee Works in a bipartisan way and produces a legislative product in a manner i think should be an example for all of congress. That does not hap
Okay folks. Thanks for coming out today. This should be a good conversation and a fun exchange. My name is tom karako and direct the missiledefense project. Before we get into things, i will say just in case we have something pop up, missiles fired or Something Like that, look to me and i will direct you either down the front stairs or at the back. Were not expecting anything like that but just in case we will do one of those couple of routes. We are very pleased to have with us today to talk about the new army air and Missile Defense 2028 col. Chad skaggs. Col. Skaggs is the chief for air mission missiledefense integration for the u. S. Army space and Missile Defense command, and Army Forces Strategic command. His division coordinated the effort to put together this strategy document so hes the exact right person to talk to us about what it means. We are going to get right into it. We will have a conversation, a quick coffee break, and then will come back with a plan on panel to broad
Direct the missiledefense project. Before we get into things, i will say just in case we have something pop up, missiles fired or Something Like that, look to me and i will direct you either down the front stairs or at the back. Were not expecting anything like that but just in case we will do one of those couple of routes. We are very pleased to have with us today to talk about the new army air and Missile Defense 2028 col. Chad skaggs. Col. Skaggs is the chief for air mission missiledefense integration for the u. S. Army space and Missile Defense command, and Army Forces Strategic command. His division coordinated the effort to put together this strategy document so hes the exact right person to talk to us about what it means. We are going to get right into it. We will have a conversation, a quick coffee break, and then will come back with a plan on panel to broaden the context and think about what this means for big army and everything else. So col. Skaggs what is new about this doc
Test test test thank you, general. Thank you senator duckworth. Senator cotton. Thank you, gentlemen for your appearance here today. Generals thomas, lets start with syria. We talked a little bit about state of the fight there and the great advances our troops have made, a little bit about what will happen when our troops depart syria. One thing thats been on my mind is all the bad guys currently detained in syria. Some of your colleagues have testified before the committee that that number would go into the hundreds. We dont have to be more specific in that setting. They have testified that while some of those detainees are front line untrained canon fodder, some are also external operation plotters and master bomb makers and other really bad guys. Is that your understanding as well. Senator, without getting into specifics on the number its closer to a thousand than it is hundreds. Already in detention with more to potentially come. A huge area of concern for us especially because the
The u. S. Cyber command. Id like to welcome our witnesses, the honorable owen west who i met for the first time today, general tony thomas who is planning to retire somebody told me and i think youre far too young to retire, but thats up to you. You have two sons that are west point graduates. You dont need to put them loose this soon. And then general nagasoni i preervt the fact that weve had open and closed meetings because of the seriously of what we will be addressing this morning. So the Senate Armed Services committees top priority is to support the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. Central to the nds is a growing focus on competition with china and russia, our peer competitors, and of course we also at the same time i dont want to forget about the threat posed to us from the terrorist organizations. Our special Operations Force have proven remarkably effective in combatting isis, al qaeda and other terrorist grups over the last 17 years, however, these g