The traditional acquisition approach is not agile and results in late to need delivery of critical warfighting capabilities and technologically superior forces and voiced a concern that our acquisition system prevents the timely delivery…

Senator Hirono. General Brooks, you mentioned the North Korean missile threat in both your written and oral testimonies.

All of us, I believe, here are aware of the importance of the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific and our country's leadership role in maintaining a level of stability.

Should you be confirmed, you would have a commitment to implementing this directive in your command.

I just want to iterate my support for that program.

We need to dramatically improve DOD and IC collaboration and cooperation to improve effectiveness to counter the threats.

What concrete steps do we take to reaffirm our relationship, for example, with Saudi Arabia and with Turkey?

I have had roundtables with veterans on every island, basically six major islands, and they raise some really practical concerns...

Well, my point is that the DOD just awarded a $4.3 billion contract to what sounds like a medical health record upgrading of the system, and then meanwhile the VA is continuing to upgrade and evolve its VistA system.

Of course, that is a very big part of the smooth transitioning from active status to veteran status, is whether their medical records are accessible and follow them.

I think that if we can provide some kind of a regular way that they could get their very specific questions about benefits and other programs answered, I think that would be very helpful.