"The F-35 program has seen its share of delays over the last two decades."
"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?"
"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."
"Navy leadership has consistently said physiological episodes are the number one safety priority within Naval Aviation as it is directly related to aircrew health."
"Has the Navy been forthcoming with all of their data?"
"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 ..."
"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 ..."