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Fighter program. As i have consistently said, the f 35 Program Remains one of my top acquisition and sustainment priorities. Earlier this month and our last press briefing i made a commitment to come back to you when we were ready to announce the next f 35 contract. Here we aare. The f 35 Program Milestone authority alongside abwe are here to announce the u. S. Department of defense and Lockheed Martin have made tremendous progress and now have an Agreement Regarding the lot 12 to 14 Production ...

Defense and they have made tremendous progress and now have an Agreement Regarding the lot 12 13 production process. This is a new milestone to the enterprise as of 35 is the largest investment and will form the backbone of the u. S. And allied inventories for the foreseeable future. Anf in the joint Program Office are laser focused on driving cost out, quality up and achieving timing delivery of our capability to our war fighters. We respect ontime delivery, we have exceeded the total aircraft ...

Welcome assistant secretary of defense from Homeland Defense and Global Security that is a very long title in Lieutenant General Deputy Commander of United States special Operations Command thank you for appearing before us today the hearing comes at an important time or we are witnessing a craze in the proliferation of wmds and terrorist organizations that present a growing threat to National Security. While we are familiar with and concerned by those capabilities of the program we should be mi...

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Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judici...

This meeting will come to order. This is the regular meeting of the local Agency Formation commission. I am sintia crews the vice chair and chair avalos will be joining shortly. My my right i have commissioner lindo to left commissioner mar and campos. The clerk is alisa [inaudible] and brought to you today on sf gov tv, jesa larsson and leo [inaudible] madam clerk do you vunouncements . Silence all cell phone squz Electronic Devices. Completing speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Th...

Could you call the roll. . Call avalos, absechblt campos present. Commissioner crews, present. Commissioner lindo, present. Commissioner mar, here. Madam chair, you have a quorum. Thank you. Madam clerk could you call item 2 . Item 2 approval the last minutes from february 20, 2016 regular meeting. Members do we have changing to the minutes or comments . Seeing none, like tois there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I like to take a motion tew prove the minutes. Prove a...

Negotiations is that each country will have to decide based on its own circumstances, its own capabilities, hopefully with as much salutary pressure as possible to do your best but that each country was going to have to make the decision about exactly what to do and how to do it. By the way, that goes for developed countries as well as developing. But even more important for developing countries who were trying to reassure that they can take on the fight for Climate Change without imperilling th...

Fraction of a second. As the seat comes out and hits the wind blast, it begins to decelerate. If you wait just a fraction of a second before you put that main chute out, the seat has decelerated enough so when the force of the parachute comes out isnt as severe. To get to that solution, we are putting a switch on the side of the ejection seat, so when the pilot climbs up into the cockpit, can set that at heavyweight or lightweight. There are a number of ways we could have solved that problem. We...

No, it did not. I mean, were always were always assessing our posture and where we can put our assets. Not something we normally get into much detail on but we always want to make sure weve got our assets positioned properly. As we see where, you know, the focus of our strikes are based on the fluidity of our battlefield maybe we need to reposition our assets to make sure where were spending more time in the air weve got an asset closer to respond if needed. Hi, colonel. As a followup to this qu...