It is not just compensation that attracts people to what we are doing in our intelligence community because service to the country is a very important motivation.

I think it is clear that we have tremendous concerns about the Russian hacking in our elections.

Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific appears to gain in importance, given recent actions of North Korea and China.

I think it is really important that we have those kinds of very specific items that you are going to follow.

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was scheduled to produce 52 ships. However, in December of 2015, the Secretary of Defense directed the Navy to reduce the LCS buy from 52 ships to 40.

I am concerned about the issue raised in the testimony of Paul Francis of the Government Accountability Office stating that committing to the block buy of the frigate variant of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) at this point in time would be…

When we okay a block buy, then we are letting go of the oversight responsibilities that this Congress has.

A reduction to 40 ships, employed under the same operating constructs, would result in about six fewer ships deployed globally conducting steady state theater security operations.

Should conflict arise, the reduced SSC inventory would result in delays for the arrival of required forces and/or risk to other missions.

Yes, thank you for pointing that out.

Is it going to be easy? No. It's not going to be easy.