The problem of the F-35 is a shared problem. It's a problem of the contractor, Lockheed Martin, and others.
It has not been solved. It has not been--the attention necessary to sustain this $1.7 trillion platform has not occurred...
The meeting will come to order.
I'm coming at you in a very angry mood. You gave us an engine, and it doesn't work.
Let me start with a thank you for the good work you have been doing with regard to Ukraine, pushing the necessary equipm...
We can build more and more ships, but if we cannot keep them at sea because they cannot be maintained in an orderly and ...
Building on that, and on what Mr. Courtney was raising with regard to sealift, it is clear that we are in a position now...
Well, we will be working on that, a National Maritime Security Program, in the coming months ahead of us.
They were virtually destroyed in the previous 4 years of the previous administration. Very rapidly rebuilt.
The bottom line of this is if we develop a National Maritime Security Program that uses the Jones Act fleet, makes them ...
We do not have in place today the fleet, the ships, the vessels, the personnel to sustain ourself.