John McCain

What is the closest range from shore the Navy and Marine Corps can conduct an amphibious assault in a contested Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) environment today and projected into the future?

What is your assessment of the readiness of the air and missile defense radar to begin procurement as part of the Flight III Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG) in fiscal year 2016?

I know the Marine Corps is experimenting with operations off a wider range of noncombatant ships, but we must ensure that our warships are capable of supporting them in the manner they plan to fight in the future.

Admiral Greenert, what time period is this requirement valid for?

The Navy identified the need for a solution for the Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) mission capability.

Secretary Mabus, are you on track to meet the $4.9 billion target for hulls 2 through 12?

The V-22 (Navy variant) extends the range and increases the flexibility of Strike Group resupply.

Can you describe your vision and current planning for the future surface combatant force?

The Navy is proposing to deliver CVN-79 in two phases, which extends the delivery of the full ship by what appears to be at least 16 months into 2025.

In the event of further budget reductions, what must this committee be particularly mindful of related to the industrial base?

Request congressional support for Navy's original plan

Secretary Mabus and General Dunford, why is the Department requesting an additional $20 million for the civilian water and wastewater infrastructure on Guam?

How certain are you that the costs and schedule now proposed will be met?

Stopping the drug demand in the United States. That's the first step.

I would tell you, in Latin American Southern Command, it will be a--just simply put, a catastrophe.

What is being done to ensure these key systems are ready for the next carrier, USS John F. Kennedy?

The MCM package has not yet demonstrated sufficient performance to achieve the Navy's minimal Increment 1 requirements.

I hope, Mr. Secretary, given new technologies, and drones, and a lot of other aspects of warfare, including the F-35 capabilities, that we will be looking at alternatives as well to the Nimitz-class or the latest class of aircraft carriers.

You and I are in pretty violent agreement that the way the Ford was built is not the way to build a ship.

If sequestration is implemented in fiscal year 2016, it will damage our national security.

I think they've tripled the number of embassies.

There is the prospect for no war in the Americas, maybe for the first time in history.

What steps you would recommend to alleviate these insufficient inventories?

We have insufficient munitions in 2020, and even in some munitions in the [2016] budget.

General Welsh, will placing A-10s into backup active inventory status result in longer duty days or work weeks for your remaining maintenance professionals who must still maintain these aircraft?