I appreciate your response to that. But I also recognize that as I talk to these AGR folks back home, they have got decisions to make.
if we don't take care of our people, if we don't give them predictability, those decades of experience that they have, that will take decade...
Thank you for being here, thank you for your leadership.
I think would be a strategic critical error.
Count me amongst those that are worried about our shipbuilding capacity and our infrastructure.
So, let me ask a question about the expansion of research and the modernization funding in OSD.
I think that tight coupling is where when the dollars get big there needs to be a service partner identified in advance before the money get...
We are trying and we are making some headway, but again, it is these little things.
Thank you all for being here and your focus on what we need to be doing better when it comes to accelerating in the acquisition space.
What is really going to cost us is when these people vote with their feet, when they leave, and then we lose that experience that we have in...
I need to know and I'd like your commitment, Admiral, that the Navy as the contract agent for this effort is proactively supporting the Coas...
the concern here of course is that you are going to have an impact on the mission on our preparedness.
I look at the Marines' role in Arctic Ops as absolutely necessary.
Last year you testified that the Air National Guard makes up 30 percent of our Nation's Space Force capacity.
we're moving forward with the first deep water Arctic port, the Port of Nome. It's going to be incredibly important to our national defense ...