Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the department of defense acquisition Reform Efforts and we welcome our witnesses, ellen lord undersecretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics. Mark esper, secretary the army. Heather wilson, secretary the air force and james geurts assistant secretary of the navy for acquisition, technology, and logistics acquisition reform is one of the most important and frustrating topics committee addresses. Four years we have been warned that america is losing its technological advantage. I hope you have seen the work on the topic. Thats why the department of defense needs acquisition reform not just for efficiency or to save money, simply put we will not be able to address threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I went to witnesses to pay attention. We are still dealing with a trillion dollar after 35 program that continues to operate i
Under secretary. And the civilian officials from the army. Air force and navy. They discussed military readiness and modernization efforts. This is about two hours. [ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for research and development. Acquisition reform is wup of the most important frustrating topics we address. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technology advantage. I hope you have seen the work on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform. Not just for efficiency or save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I wan
[ inaudible conversations ] Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the Department Reform effort. We welcome our witnesses ellen lord under secretary of defense for technology. Mark es per. Secretary of the army. Heather wilson secretary of the air force. And james gerts assistant secretary of the navy for research and development. Acquisition reform is wup of the most important frustrating topics we address. For years, we have been warned that america is losing its technology advantage. I hope you have seen the work on this topic. That is why the department of defense needs acquisition reform. Not just for efficiency or save money. Simply put, we will not be able to address threats facing this nation with the system of organized irresponsibility that the defense acquisition enterprise has become. I want the witnesses to Pay Attention here. Okay . Were still dealing with a trillion dollar f 35 program that continues to operate in dysfunction. The air force still su
Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. To roll into the second half of the event where on armying to focus modernization. A report oning out marine modernization called the imperative. Zation new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin by thanking of that study. Without sponsors we dont get to do studies. Study was sponsored by a combination of support from we want to thank them. I will briefly walk through the chief findings of recommendations of the report. Its about 80 page. Its a pretty quick read. A lot of pictures. I urge you to go read whole thing. Highlights. He saying withart by this study weve always every time we talked about it, we had to start by saying this is not a critique of arm acquisition. Look at if you start with a premise that the army itds to modernize, how does develop a strategy for doing and which it can clearly forcefully communicate within the army, within the Department Defense and with the congress in order to get the