Lieutenant General Bunch, could the Air Force accelerate the program once the winning bid is determined?

Congress has done no small part to hamstring the Army over the last 5 years due to the Budget Control Act and sequestration and the stop and start nature of our appropriations process.

The situation is far from ideal. There is a potential, though, for a full-year continuing resolution for all of fiscal year 2017.

A strong Air Force is key to our joint war fighting capability.

soldiers and commanders, quote, did not consider it to be very helpful. End quote.

The committee last year increased the cap for bonuses from $25,000 to $35,000. Do you anticipate a request that you'll be increasing the cap further?

The nature of this future battlefield... makes that unavoidable.

Deploying large numbers of American military forces onto foreign soil to nation-build vice accomplishing a defined mission is counter-productive.

The biggest challenge our defense establishment faces is one of institutional inertia.

For the life of our country, we have mostly thought away games, especially in the last 100 years.

The pace and tenor of our lives has been irrevocably altered by the acceleration of change.

We have to contend with increasing personnel and procurement costs at a time when defense budgets are decreasing.