It is no secret that the overruns in the DOD acquisitions consume billions of dollars every year, and I am still amazed.
Systemic cost growth jeopardizes the ability of the United States to execute a long-term, coherent, and stable strategy.
When you say poor performance, by the contractor?
None of us escape blame. And if we are going to turn this around, all of us have a role to play.
We need to change the thinking that if only we give a program a couple more years and a couple more billion dollars the ...
What we are trying to do is to improve our ability, when fraud occurs or when we just make overpayments, mistakes, to be...
That is not the kind of behavior that taxpayers expect, and that is not what they should get.
We try to work on prevention with respect to health care.
An ounce of prevention, as my grandmother used to say, 'Is worth a pound of cure.'
Now, more than ever we have to find the best value for our tax dollars, and I am amazed as I stay here longer as to how ...
We ended up with a balanced budget approach that worked on the defense side, defense spending, worked on domestic discre...
One of the questions I often ask of witnesses, particularly when we see a real problem, $402 billion worth in cost overr...
We have to do better than this. Otherwise, we will end up having $1.5 trillion deficits for as far as the eye can see. W...
Is the Joint Strike Fighter.
We actually pay the providers up front. Then we figure out it was wrong, and mistake, and then chase them down and try t...
When we have seen major weapon systems cost overruns rise from $42 billion in fiscal year 2000 to $402 billion in fiscal...
OK. Thank you.
Sometimes when we hold these oversight hearings, we focus on disappointing performance, bad actors, that sort of thing.
