04/07/2014
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"the cost of the Ohio replacement SSBN is significant relative to the annual ship procurement resources available to the Navy in any given year."
"Can you give us an update on the Virginia Payload Module and how the program is faring given sequestration, a potential CR, and other fiscal adversities?"
"While the Virginia program has been a model procurement story, there are clearly some other procurements in the Navy that have had more trouble."
"Stepping back a bit, can you remind me why these programs--VCS, VPM, ORP--are so important, given the intense A2/AD challenges we are likely to face in future contingencies?"