Special consideration of the United States and the future. Its not going to be subject to the same budget control rules as the other expenditures. Last night steve corn aky show showed an interview about how you and he were gym buddies and turned marco rubio around on immigration and used the gym as a Hunting Ground to turn people over. Who are some of your targets that you might like to was Chuck Schumer lying . I go to the senate gym daily. He said that republicans go early and democrats go late. Yes. I tend to be thats why i try to be there first at 5 30. I go there every day for no obvious reason. A way to relieve stress. The first one there is an Orthopedic Surgeon from wyoming. We talk about these issues. And theres an opportunity there. Your guard is down when youre sweating and puffing and all the rest of this stuff. To talk about some of these issues. I have solved some big problems in the gym with my colleagues. I caught them at a vulnerable moment, you know. I think approach
To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. Unacceptable. And i fully expect the navys ongoing study of alternative Aircraft Carrier designs to provide real options. In all three of the lcs Mission Packages most overcome Major Technology integration challenges to deliver the promised warfighting capability. Building the first ohio class replacement submarine building the first flight three destroyer with the new Missile Defense radar, radar, radar. In Naval Aviation it will take strong leadership to oversee the smooth and timely integrati
Scene from beloved drones must seem like an angels of death. The gods can see you. All the time. A toy has turned into a deadly weapon. Has this become our god. Tell of the five the white city so far away from and yet so near to war at the beginning of our journey i want to visit a country that is mentally and often physically at war. And he saw his name on the news about my sure that i thought he had somewhere like we are in Israel Aerospace industry was one of the leading manufacturers of drones the day the army and his two colleagues invented something here four decades ago they call themselves the three musketeers without it. And the three of you this is your first three of it im sure this is was the first that will be getting in seventy seven. And nineteen seventy seven where we began to develop it from scratch so mean nothing was happening and we were thinking we knew with that we have to do a flying camera so we will begin to think about it and then this is it three years after
Branch. He is going to deliver his presentation, roll out the navys budget and then well go over some ground rules and take some questions. Good afternoon. As he mentioned im brian lute luther and i want to thank you ft. Opportunity to brief the fiscal year 2018 president budget submission in which i will address our portion of the second step of the department of defenses multiyear effort to restore readiness. The brief will be broken into four parts. The first will briefly review the current and evolving strategic guidance. The second, provides the operational context in which the naval forces operate in todays world. The third ill review historical challenges that underlie the requirement for the current readiness reset. And finally,ly provide a summary by appropriation group. The National Level guidance that provided us the mission sets which drove the operations of the last decade are under review. Earlier this month the department of defense began a defense Strategic Review. This
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