Ash Carter: “The Guide provides a risk-based approach that the Air Force will use to certify the capability of potential New Entrant…”

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.