How can we ensure that all stakeholders are involved in the creation and implementation of the national policy?

DOD officials considered the use of government personnel to perform the mission and found that the ANP training program did not include any inherently governmental functions.

Does the National Ocean Policy consider national security interests in the planning process?

Are you comfortable that all contracted services currently supporting CENTCOM are the most cost-effective and risk-averse source of labor?

President Obama has made reducing reliance on contractors and rebalancing the workforce a major management initiative of his Administration.

In this era of constrained budgets, why would we pay more for contractors and not use military or even civilians, to do the necessary work of the Department?

There was a lot of discussion last year about the 'exceptions' to the FY10 civilian levels Secretary Gates mandated.

You stated you have a large number of contractors conducting training in Iraq associated with the Office of Security Cooperation.

As you are well aware of the President's initiative to increase our force presence in the Asia-Pacific region, can you share with the committee the strategic significance of Guam in your global en route infrastructure and how critical will…

In the SOCOM plan for the inventory of contracted services in accordance with section 8108(c) of last year's appropriations act...

Did CENTCOM seek relief from DOD-mandated civilian personnel levels in order to insource contracted work more cost-effectively performed by civilians?