The hearing will come to order.

You have continued to make clear the threat that Russia poses in all of your presentations.

That just absolutely makes no sense to a dumb grunt.

I want to echo Joe Wilson's comments, having been with you in Munich at the Munich Security Conference.

Thank you all for your testimony.

I am very disappointed that we would even think about reducing our ISR capabilities without first fully replacing that.

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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...

What steps has the USAF taken to fix this shortfall?

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

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…

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

I could not be more disappointed by your presentation.

This is pure safety.

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?

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

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

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.