The F-22 fleet's operational availability remains disappointingly low, at 60 percent.

General Breedlove, if sequestration goes forward, will the Air Force have to break the KC-46A contract and renegotiate a new contract?

To avoid this same fate, the Services have taken steps with the drawdown proposed in this budget to actually reduce units along with end strength to ensure the remaining units can be manned at full strength.

General Austin, will those resources come from the base budget in future years or from supplementals?

the budget request for fiscal year 2013 represents the first year of $487 billion in defense budget cuts over the next 9 years.

When servicemembers and their families step forward and volunteer to defend our country, we owe it to them that their quality of life reflects the quality of their service and sacrifice.

Providing enough time between deployments has for years been the foundation of the balance of training and manpower readiness for the Army.

The assessment may require a potential revisiting of TCE-related cleanup standards at over 1,000 former and current military sites.

So that would certainly be something important so that you did not have to install a new trainer on a base.

Dr. Robyn, while these projects predominantly rely on private investment and private sector risk, what is the risk to the Federal Government by entering into these long-term contracts?

In 2011, the CNO testified that the Navy requires a minimum of 313 ships to meet operational requirements globally.

The Army views 90 percent sustainment funding as the absolute bedrock of proper facilities stewardship.