Madeleine Bordallo: “Contractors are only used to source highly technical positions and capabilities not found in U.S. Government personnel.”

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I hope you don't extract this from my 5 minutes, but there is a native of Guam in the audience today, and I am very proud of her.

I have long stated that just as important as it is to provide our service members with new, modernized equipment, we must fully maintain the assets that we already have.

If we are going to rebuild readiness, we need to ensure that the depot maintenance accounts are fully funded to meet the requirement.

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.