Secretary Panetta expressed his unequivocal support for the multi-year procurement plan for the DDG-51 destroyer program.
If sequestration occurs, automatic percentage cuts are required to be applied without regard to strategy, importance or priorities, which wo...
Secretary of Defense Panetta has asserted many times that the impact of these cuts would be 'devastating' and 'catastrophic'--leading to a h...
We do think there's value here, but this needed a major restructuring, and there is statutory language that would need to be adjusted for us...
We've gone through a nuclear review and presented options to the President. But let me be very clear that these options are in no way unilat...
sequestration would have a devastating effect on the Defense Department overall
It is a crazy, nutty tool that, frankly, cannot be restructured.
This is a responsibility we all have. It is not just my responsibility. It is yours as well.
Let me be clear, you cannot take a half a trillion dollars out of the defense budget and not increase the risks.
We need a fifth-generation fighter, and the F-35 is that.
What we need to see is the administration saying, here is an alternative and something besides your budget.