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And that also and this is very important and this gets back to the earlier discussion of sequester if its in the base budget, it is the base upon which we build our future budgets, and we need stability. We need a horizon so that we know what our budget is going to be not only this year but in years to come. Otherwise, we cant spend it efficiently, and we cant spend it strategically. We need that kind of horizon and sequester is what robs us of that, and thats why its bad in a manage yearal sense for anybody who has their budget sequestered. General dempsey, do you want to speak to that and perhaps its affect on readiness . As you know, weve been trying to dig out of a readiness hole. We said three or four years ago if the wars in iraq and afghanistan ended then it would take us three or four years to recover our readiness because we were ready for ten years for a particular kind ever conflict, which you know better than most. And so we had to kind of recapture our credentials for othe ....
Military level over there and things at the political level, both of which are change inging. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And general dempsey, i join my colleagues in sending warm wishes your way and thank you you for your more years of serving o our great nation. Mr. Mccord, i would like to chat about the budget thats upcoming. The House Budget Committee chairman proposed boosting the Defense Budget with an increase of allocation. Is an oko dollar just as useful as a base budget dollar . In other words, should there be limitations on funding that Congress Needs to be mindful of . Both dollars are useful to us for purposes they are intended and needed. We dont need 36 or 38 billion in oko, but we need them in the base budget. Both have restrictions in law and in regulation. So if you had your ch ....
It was going to deliver in 2017, which to my way of looking at it doomed it to a graceless death from the moment, because thats seven cycles of the congress of the United States. I just think we have to take a look at the pace at which we try to develop i think as the secretary said, commercial is outpacing government at this point, and we can either fight that or find ways to conform to it. Rep. Wittman secretary carter just your perspective, it seems like what youre advocating is putting more authority but also accountability in the hands of decisionmakers so making it more away from process, which is more of a process driven effort to more of a person or individual driven effort. Kind of give me your perspective on where you think the balance is there. Because it seems like were too much of a processdriven effort today. Gen. Dempsey i think thats right. We have gotten to a point where there are as many checkers as there are doer ....
Employee with the company and ive watched her be involved with knowledges and universities and the key to almost all of them to succeeding is leadership. If you have strong leadership, be it a company, school, university or agency, i will show you an agency or school or entity that on its way to be more effective with everything that they do. We make it too hard. A hearing withng the federal management subcommittee going through the gao highrisk list. One of the issues we focused on was the cost of Weapons Systems overruns. The cost is gone from 200 billion per year to about 400 billion per year. First the number two person for acquisition the air force, we said talk to us about how long you have been in your job, what kind of turnover you got from your predecessor. This was in the Bush Administration. Had beeny position vacant for 18 months before i got there. There ha ....
Skypes. Ves four that is the miracle of modern technology and it will either work or not work. It is very tricky so somebody may go down, somebody may have a time delay which is happening with one of our three guests. Analogous to the quadruple somersault ringling brothers. Please, bear with us. We will have problems from time to time but we have an Excellent Team of techies. I know because i can understand anything a say. It is my pleasure to interview introduce our interviewer, roger cohen. Thank you. [applause] good morning. We are going to rely on technology to try to bring this in balance and ignore whoever may or may not be listening. I think it is fair to say that in the immediate landscape there is a before and after Edward Snowden. Nsarevelations about global data vacuuming are backed with concrete evidence. The feeling i think that many of us have had since 9 11 tha ....