If you are confirmed as Deputy Secretary of Defense, how would you approach this issue?
Mr. Sheehan has been nominated to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for SOLIC.
So you get a memo and it says it is part of Operation Fast and Furious and you do not say, hey, what is Operation Fast and Furious?
If confirmed, Mr. Sheehan and Mr. Lippert would play a key role in guiding Department of Defense (DOD) policy.
You would not ask how did the murderers get the weapons that they were using? That again did not arouse your curiosity?
If confirmed, will you vet the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's initiative to reform JCIDS?
I look forward to working with Secretary Panetta in driving solutions to the strategic management challenges facing DOD.
In accepting a concurrent program, the Department planned to replace aging, less capable legacy fighters sooner.
I believe it is necessary to create a closer alignment of the acquisition, requirements, and budget processes across the Department to conti...
The Department conveyed to the Government of Japan the urgency of taking the necessary steps to get construction on the airfield underway, s...
Section 838 of the Conference Agreement on the fiscal year 2012 Defense Authorization Bill, which originated as amendment 1071 by Senator Mc...
This often leads to higher costs, lengthy development times, and late deliveries to the warfighter.
At the '2+2' meeting in June of this year, Secretary of Defense Gates and Secretary of State Clinton endorsed a plan for the configuration o...
But when a Border Patrol agent is murdered, you did not say, hey, what is the story here? How did this happen?
I expect that the U.S. cost for construction of facilities will only rise as we include land acquisitions and improvements to the infrastruc...
The current 20-year military retirement system has come under scrutiny.
Again, you were not curious even though the issue of guns being smuggled into Mexico has been widely discussed, widely--a source of deep con...
By virtue of being an aircraft carrier, it's typically offensive. It's made to project power.
