Donald Norcross

If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.

OSHA has saved thousands of lives.

Isn't it ironic that we are hearing about corruption and we are being challenged by members of Congress talking about this?

I understand firsthand how it works on both ends.

Since the retirement of the OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopter, the Army has used a manned-unmanned teaming combination of the Apache and the Shadow UAV to perform the scout reconnaissance mission.

GAO's work has shown that demonstrating that technologies work as intended in an operational environment, or Technology Readiness Level 7, as opposed to a laboratory environment or a strictly controlled test site, is a best practice.

As long as we have these risks to our country, we will be happy to continue on like this.

Let me try to wrap this up. We had a conversation at Picatinny, EMP hardening, as the new systems develop, you spoke cyber and reviewing it every step of the way.

We better understand it--I get much better response when you dig deeper into these issues.

I said that is just a practice round for what we are doing today.

Whatever the program is, the minimum sustaining rate which is what you publish.

I know my colleagues want to ask some questions, I just before I turn it over, so I want to look at the Block 2, the Chinook as an example.

And I think the key thing there is we both have the common end state, of making sure--and it is not today's soldiers, that future soldiers have what they need to fight and win on a future battlefield.

So who put together the impact to the industrial base, those procurement definitions of minimum sustaining rate, who actually puts that together in what timeframe?

The GAO reports that the Army has come to rely on the use of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding to pay for upgrades to its weapon systems and platforms.

I want to thank you. There are a couple of things I want to follow up on. It was actually a lot easier than I expected.

I think there is good news in there. The main priority that I am seeing and hearing from particularly with those who are calling us up to say, Is this a system that has been set up that is fundamentally fair to industry, and this is my…

The hearing will come to order. The Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee meets today to review the Department of the Army's modernization programs for the fiscal 2020 budget request.

I think the bill is going to drop next week.

You cannot go after all the employers right now because you do not have the enforcement mechanism.

But the idea of making the healthy plans pay for the unhealthy, now there's a risk that we would need to address.

We cannot penalize the healthy plans.

A very important issue to make sure that we keep our eye on is that trying to charge the healthy plans astronomical increases in premiums is blaming those who have done the right thing are paying the price.

It is called democracy.

I am finding it very difficult to--