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Title 10 grants the Department waiver authority for core requirements and for 50/50 requirements for depot maintenance.

Title 10 requires depot core workload to be conducted by government employees at a level that ensures efficiency with the goal to generally be one of cost effectiveness since this workload is funded through working capital funds.

In your opening remarks, you stated that the Department will be forced to use existing authorities to begin the realignment and closure process in the absence of the Congress passing new BRAC authority.

Do you support efforts to get better accounting and visibility into contracted services, as required by law?

If--and I stress, if--another BRAC round were authorized, what could the Congress do to help ensure a quicker payback time?

I am deeply concerned about the administration's intent to request another BRAC round.

Does the National Ocean Policy consider national security interests in the planning process?

How can we ensure that all stakeholders are involved in the creation and implementation of the national policy?

The citizens in Guam and the other Pacific Islands have a vital interest in protecting ocean and coastal resources, since naturally we are surrounded by the ocean.

There was a lot of discussion last year about the 'exceptions' to the FY10 civilian levels Secretary Gates mandated.

In this era of constrained budgets, why would we pay more for contractors and not use military or even civilians, to do the necessary work of the Department?

Are you comfortable that all contracted services currently supporting CENTCOM are the most cost-effective and risk-averse source of labor?

President Obama has made reducing reliance on contractors and rebalancing the workforce a major management initiative of his Administration.

In the SOCOM plan for the inventory of contracted services in accordance with section 8108(c) of last year's appropriations act...

Did CENTCOM seek relief from DOD-mandated civilian personnel levels in order to insource contracted work more cost-effectively performed by civilians?

DOD officials considered the use of government personnel to perform the mission and found that the ANP training program did not include any inherently governmental functions.

You stated you have a large number of contractors conducting training in Iraq associated with the Office of Security Cooperation.

As you are well aware of the President's initiative to increase our force presence in the Asia-Pacific region, can you share with the committee the strategic significance of Guam in your global en route infrastructure and how critical will…