The decisions we make in the face of these demands will help to determine whether future generations of soldiers, sailor...
Why is this JSF, which all of us acknowledge is an extraordinary program and a great plane, why is it now behind schedul...
Thank you, Senator Inhofe. Thanks for your questions.
It's a FAR-based contract.
I'm going to come back and ask you about Secretary Gates' 80 percent solution idea which seems to respond to some of wha...
Both.
So what would you do if you were Secretary of the Army today with this program?
I'm proud to say that I believe it was this subcommittee that brought the program back from the dead.
Is the concern you have about the fact that we're putting a lot of money in, and the systems are not going to be able to...
That's a really interesting answer because in a way it's a variant on Secretary Gates' 80 percent solution.
I think I'll focus in on my followup question, too, because I'm concerned--and I know you know others are--about risks o...
Over the 5-year period--it would be 53.
Thanks very much, Senator Hagan. Good questions.
I think the Secretary of Defense made some big leadership decisions and got some attention last year.
There's obviously a lot of support for the JSF program in the Senate, and particularly on this committee.
In other words, technologies that are mature out in the commercial marketplace.
how soon will we know how much the JSF program has breached its baseline estimates?
Good enough. Thank you. I'll follow those developments with some interest and look forward to working with you on them.
