"It is an incredibly important hearing and it is an opportunity to examine the lessons we have learned from wartime contracting."
"I think that is a critical part of what needs to be done, as we talked about in the opening remarks."
"I have some of the same concerns that you are, establishing budget numbers without backing them up with good analysis."
"There has not been enough talk about freezing the size of the contracting force and freezing the pay of contractors."
"We need to develop a best practices model to help determine when contracting will save taxpayer dollars."
"Assuming that contractors cost less and that the Federal employees cost more does not help this discussion."
"We are spending more money on service-related contractors in many agencies than we are spending on Federal employees."
"In 2009, you guys started an insourcing initiative and the goal, as I understand it, was to replace 30,000 contractors with DOD civilians between 2010 and 2015."
"Secretary Gates said in a speech that Defense agencies, quote, were not seeing the savings we had hoped for from insourcing."
"Thank you, Madam Chairman."
"Thank you, Madam Chairman, I welcome our distinguished witnesses here today, whose testimony today will help us to come up with a better NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013."