Madeleine Bordallo: “President Obama has made reducing reliance on contractors and rebalancing the workforce a major management initiative of…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You always make my day.

I am concerned that the Army is standing up a four-star organization with up to three lieutenant generals as deputies without a clearly defined command relationship.

I am concerned that in a year where readiness has been cited as the Department's top priority, the Department's budget request falls well short of meeting the total depot maintenance requirement for the Army and the Marine Corps.

I think it is fair to ask if the Army is, in fact, just creating more overhead that will further slow an already cumbersome process.