"We live in a world that is technology rich. And so that should give us both concern, but also, you know, a lot of appeal."
"We don't want to get too deep in the weeds, but closing up the proper way. It is not the opening, it is the resealing that is the problem."
"If we continue to build the same kinds of systems and fight the same kind of way, we are playing into their hands."
"In the interest of time, we will get the actual numbers, but they are going to meet the minimum sustaining rate?"
"So, 2 years ago, it was all about fifth gen. A year ago, we were reeducated to say we want fourth gen."
"Yet, here we are getting ready to curtail 36 Super Hornets because we are expecting, you know, the F/A-XX to come online."
"Calling the hearing to order."
"I can't say areas it was not expected, because the maintenance schedule suggests that we should do things to protect those."
"If you go back to the Cold War, we were generating most of the technology that found its way to the battlefield."
"The minimum sustaining rate is 18. We have orders in place for out to 25, we believe, were at those minimum sustaining rates."
"But are you preparing? If the protest is upheld, it is going to drive that timeline."