What impact has the substantial reduction in MILCON spending had on the ability of installations to support readiness...

What are the services' plans to mitigate the impact of reduced OCO funding on base operating support and facilities sustainment, modernization, and restoration?

There is language in this year's NDAA to direct all the individual service branches to do a capacity analysis.

What specific examples can you provide of facility conditions affecting the readiness of installations to carry out their assigned missions?

What steps, if any, are installations taking to reduce the risk that facility conditions will negatively affect their readiness to carry out assigned missions?

To what extent do the reported readiness levels of installations take into consideration the condition of their facilities?

Taking risk in installation funding affects readiness and negatively impacts the ability to proactively manage the installation.

Reductions in civilian/contract provided services have affected the availability of key facilities.

We are at a point where we are going to do less with less.

What progress has the Marine Corps made in implementing the 2013 and 2014 OSD policy memorandums regarding the standardization of facility condition assessments and use of the Facility Sustainment Model?

I call to order the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness.

A couple of things. We have seen, leading up to where we are today, a sequence of continuing resolutions.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us today, and thanks for your service to our Nation.

CNO Greenert testified a year ago that we need two to three squadrons of Super Hornets to offset the attrition loss.

I think the carrier strike group concept with the submarine is a great way to go about that.

I would contend that while a diesel submarine does not replace a nuclear submarine, because we can go much further, much faster at quiet speeds.

As the saying goes, quantity has a quality all its own.

I want to finish with one question, to play out a number of different scenarios.

Has the Navy thought of some of these scenarios?

We look forward to working with you to make sure we enable you to make sure our ships get in and get maintained.

I think there is a tendency to think that managers can just have a broader understanding, but our research indicates that that is not the case.

I call to order the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Readiness.

Thank you for that comprehensive overview about O-FRP and what it means and the challenges that we face ahead.

One thing, too, that doesn't get mentioned in O-FRP, to have another tool to buffer this unpredictability in the world around us is the total number of ships in our fleet.

We have got to nail this down now.