"I just think we ought to be looking at all alternatives and thinking outside the box."
"Well, thank you for four excellent examples of testimony. Mr. Clark, you say we first need to get started with the first year. I could not agree more."
"In fact, this committee put a business case analysis requirement in the fiscal year 2018 NDAA to look at reactivation options."
"If we sent out the clear signal this year and next year that we are going to do this and that we are going to put the money where it is needed and we are serious about it in the long run, what actions..."
"Well, we just do not have the bipartisan votes."
"I think I heard you say that getting to the 355 ships solves not only a modernization problem, but it solves a readiness problem."
"Thank you very, very much. I think this has been most helpful, and we had great participation from some seven members of the subcommittee."
"If they do not put a firm analytical foundation under this effort, there will be a risk of this effort also experiencing difficulties in execution in the years ahead."
"Anytime that you cause a ship or require a ship to be good at all things, you are going to drive up the cost factor on this."
"I think the Navy needs to, instead of opening a wide aperture and seeing what comes in, make some choices about what they need this ship to do."
"This is going to be our third attempt in the last 15 years to try and get right the issue of smalls surface combatant procurement."