One thing I'm confident of is that Senator Inhofe will stay on this until he gets that answer.

So here, as well as in some other key decision areas, you're really waiting for the QDR to give some guidance about where we go from here?

We are adamant, and I know the members of this esteemed subcommittee are equally adamant, that we never want to send our soldiers into a fair fight.

I agree. I was thinking when Senator Chambliss said you were messengers that you should be assured that this is a subcommittee where we do not kill the messengers.

I think the point is that we're pushing you hard and you're pushing the aircraft that you have hard to meet the requirements, because we're not replenishing rapidly enough.

we're going to work to increase the authorization by 30,000 and hope that together we can find the money

However, we understand that initial insights will be available to Army budget planners as early as the end of July.

The subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon. We particularly welcome General Chiarelli and General Thompson.

Do you want to flesh out that conclusion just a bit, about why did you conclude that in some cases the Army was too close to the lead systems integrator?

We're in a most unusual moment, which is, as you said, recruitment is going very well, there is a high level of recruits coming in.

we can't afford the second engine and it will compromise the JSF program. So I hope we stick with the President's recommendation on that one.

It's been a very constructive panel and it helps to guide us as we go forward to our markup next week.

So this has real consequences. In a normal case, of course you'd like to have two programs. But you can't have it all.

a 10-kiloton device detonated near the White House would kill more than 100,000 people.

the sooner the better.

The implementation of these decisions will require detailed analysis and planning, prioritization, and resource alignment, none of which has been done yet.

To say that the service of the personnel of the Army has been extraordinary, whatever the phrase is, it seems to me that this is the next greatest generation in service of our country.

We on this committee are always mindful that we're a Nation at war, and obviously the budget has to play some role and resources have to play some role.

I hope we've all learned. I agree with you, we're going to get a lot out of it, we've already gotten a lot out of it, some of it quite amazing really in technological advances.

There will be a serious effort in this subcommittee... to increase the authorized end strength of the Army by 30,000.

My hope is that we can move your nomination through the Committee and through the Senate as quickly as possible because GSA, the President, and the government need you to be at your desk.

In the last Congress, with leadership from Senators Carper and Coburn, our Committee reported out a bill to allow agencies to keep a portion of the proceeds of the sale of excess property.

One major concern that I mentioned in my opening statement that has been a real focus for Senator Carper and Senator Coburn, Members of the Committee, has been the excess property held by the government.

The Department of the Treasury, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Justice would be three other major participants.

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