Mike Turner

The committee understands the USAF has a roadmap to develop and field an advanced tactical data link in the 2030 timeframe.

Does the Air Force have the ability to pass threat and targeting data between Fifth Generation Fighters (F-22, F-35) and Fourth Generation Fighters (F-15, F-16, F/A-18) in an A2AD environment without being detected?

What steps has the USAF taken to fix this shortfall?

Can you please clarify for this committee the Navy's roadmap to IOC, when it might be declared, and the path to the first operational deployment for the F-35C?

The F-35 program has seen its share of delays over the last two decades.

The F-35B brings new capabilities and operational possibilities to the Marine Expeditionary Unit...

When do you believe the program will be ready to begin IOT&E, what are the risks to this start date, and are there any mitigations you are considering?

Hopefully in the next several years we won't have the battle over top line that we have had over the past, and we can talk about how we reach new capabilities, as opposed to just the degrading of our readiness.

As you know, when Congress always--our work is prospective. We are working on next year.

For the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, our actions will be to continue close oversight of the F-35 program.

I certainly call on Democratic leadership in the Senate to dislodge the defense funding for the military.

I voted against the Budget Control Act because I believed that sequestration would be damaging to our military.

I believe Navy leadership was initially slow to respond to this issue that is having a direct effect on overall readiness.

The NASA report notes that the F/A-18's oxygen monitor--the CRU-99--does not log data, but that the plan to replace it with the more advanced CRU-123 was cancelled. Is that the case and if so why was this upgrade canceled?

The NASA report states that 'The Navy has not conducted a fleet wide survey of their F/A-18 air crew to understand the PE problem from the human perspective, where these physiological events actually occur'. Why has such a survey not been…

Navy leadership has consistently said physiological episodes are the number one safety priority within Naval Aviation as it is directly related to aircrew health.

In the FY17 NDAA, this Congress directed the Secretary of the Navy to conduct an independent review of the plans, programs, and research of the Department of the Navy with respect to physiological episodes affecting aircrew of the F/A-18…

Has the Navy been forthcoming with all of their data?

Is the U.S. Navy capable of solving the PE problem?

I believe that there are a number of things that are being done and a number of things that are not being done that are now being done because the report said to do them.

This has got to be fixed. This has got to stop.

The leadership of the Navy continued to treat this as if it was not a physiological episode.

This isn't an issue of talking.

There is something wrong with the systems that these pilots are relying on for their lives.

This is pure safety.