05/02/2017
https://congress.gov...
"So when is the soonest we and the American people could see a Navy plan for getting to 355 in the 2020s, as the CNO says we must?"
"If there is a better argument for the need to move aggressively to 355 ships, I have yet to hear it."
"I worry when we get into mitigation in production rates that really what we are admitting is that--I mean, if 2 of our yards, 2 of the 7 are having difficulties, I don't see any way we can get to 355 ..."
"The relative cost of our systems and the high value we rightly place on survivability may make political leadership less likely to deploy them in a risky expeditionary environment."