Madeleine Bordallo: “While I share some of the concerns that my colleagues are voicing about resource allocation in the fiscal year 2018 Navy…”

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 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.

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

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.