Mazie Hirono

The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Intelligence Community (IC) have always worked together and cooperated on space.

The rebalance to the Asia-Pacific is a top priority of the Nation and our projected strength in the region aids in deterrence, protects our country, and reassures our allies.

The Eagle Vision system is incredibly important and provides invaluable support for disaster relief programs.

Budget uncertainty has significant impacts on morale, recruitment, retention, and also the ability of the Air Force to balance readiness with modernization.

Eagle Vision provides outstanding value and utility to Homeland defense, domestic emergency relief, as well as for disaster relief operations working with our friends and allies.

The Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) is a national treasure in terms of capabilities.

I hope that, as you consider new locations for cyber protection teams, that Hawaii be given full consideration.

I appreciate your commitment to influence the climate at the Air Force Academy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am running out of time.

So does anyone on the panel disagree that we should go ahead with this confirmation at this point?

I was curious as to, one of the things we understand is that ISIL derives a lot of its revenues from taxation.

I think this panel has made a really strong case for looking at DOPMA and the fact that it really doesn't make sense to use a one-size-fits-all

So, the changes to DOPMA should be made at the congressional level?

I think it's time to take a look at that.

I certainly hope that this committee will follow through.