The tightening of the labor market and the increased recruiting missions will be a challenge in the coming year.

Can you discuss these energy resilience priorities in terms of both operational fuel and delivery of electricity to your military installations?

Annual pay raises assist in meeting mission critical recruitment and retention goals.

There is probably a lot more that we will be doing in the future along the lines of the direction we are going right now.

I applaud DOD's commitment to defending the Homeland from ballistic missiles.

I think it is there. We just have to find it.

air and space superiority, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance are clearly highlighted as two of the five core Air Force missions

the need to reduce energy consumption, use alternative energy sources, and increase energy resilience and assurance is closely tied to our national security.

We are strongest when we fight together with our allies and partners in this integrated battlefield.

I take the threat of North Korea launching a ballistic missile toward the United States and the state of Hawaii very seriously.

we continue to have significant cost overruns which impact public confidence in our use of tax-payer resources