Is this in the best interest of national security, not just based on today's needs but what we project out into the future?

In your 37 years of service have you ever seen more capable and combat ready surface combatants that we have in the fleet today?

is this right for the National Security of this country, is this right for the Navy, is this right for the Industrial Base?

Mr. Wittman. Mr. Stackley, I would like to focus on the near-term planning period of the Long-Range Naval Vessel Construction Plan and the Naval Battle Force Inventory.

it seems to me that we continue to push hard decisions outside the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP).

The current plan does not appear to stress this consistently.

Why would we pay an additional $600 million dollars to have the same number of submarines delivered?

Mr. Wittman. Mr. Stackley, do we know the estimated per-unit cost of the DDG-51 Flight III?

Can we logically assume that 32 Flight IIA DDGs will be serving for 40 years?

Based on the threat and the risks at sea and our desire to project power and answer the call to execute the core missions of the Navy, is this the fleet that we want, the fleet that we need, or the fleet we can afford?

Congressman Wittman, thanks.