Claire McCaskill

I will say on the record, I am disappointed--not that I am not thrilled to have you, Ms. McNall, but I think the person who should be sitting there should be the person who has oversight of this program.

Do you believe that she has characterized this accurately?

Why did he get anything?

It would be a great requirement for this job, because I guarantee you, if you were a private business, you would have figured out these costs before you had cost overruns of $89 million over a period of just a few years.

If you are not even attempting to capture your costs that you are absorbing because the contract amount is clearly not correct, then all we are going to have is more of this ad nauseam in the future until you figure that out.

And how much is that training costing you?

We are trying to figure out if you know what this costs.

And what happened when that occurred? Were there alarm bells that rang?

So, 75 percent of that is your employees?

I think you are all strong, competent, smart women that are working hard at the task you have been given.

Well, you guys need to redo this. This is a mess, because it is too hard--all of it is counterintuitive.

And the new fee structure, the new award fee structure after the exercise of the option, it is my understanding...

If you are going to recompete this contract, you cannot do it unless you figure out what everything costs.

I hope I have as much success with the rebidding of this contract next year as I had with finally allowing us all to use our electronic devices when we take off and land.

In addition to cost-plus.

Well, I thought that Raytheon developed the performance metrics early in this contract.

That is exactly what you did when you offered Raytheon an incentive fee and an award fee for containing costs.

We finally hear a figure about what you think it costs to train someone.

Why in the world would you go from 4,000 to 5,620 in the first year?

Well, why did you pay them for it, then?

The minute you try to play ball with one side or the other--that means an immediate loss of credibility.

OK, but I am talking about now, you. What is your vetting process?

You stand in their place when you buy this.

If there were some liability in this area, it would be amazing how fast people could clean up their act.

Cybersecurity is a huge problem.