Madeleine Bordallo: “In your opening remarks, you stated that the Department will be forced to use existing authorities to begin the…”

The system needs, as you said, overhauling. There is no question about it, whether you go to privatization, or whatever. And it should not be a monopoly.

I look forward to hearing how you believe it will be different this time.

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.

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