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On the recordMarch 14, 2016
To what extent are you looking at the program--not just today in the capability but what the program needs to provide in the future, understanding the challenges that the industry faces both with capacity that is in the ships but also capability and that is in the merchant mariners that run those ships?
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman questions future capabilities of the Maritime Security Program.

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