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To join us here today and before i introduce them, though, i want to take a moment to acknowledge that while i cant imagine there being a better place to work than the Strategic Forces subcommittee apparently somebody thinks theres a better job in washington, d. C. We this is the last hearing that steve will be in the current position, he is leaving us to go to work for secretary of defense, to be the assistant secretary of defense for space policy. And our loss is the secretarys gain. So were g...

For those in house we would ask that courtesy that our mobile devices would have been silence or turned off. For those watching online or in the future, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org and of course we will post todays program on the heritage front page for everyones future reference as well. Meeting our discussion today is daniel and he is our policy analyst in European Affairs and Margaret Thatcher for freedom and it focuses on transatlantic...

The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services committee. With the president budget request released earlier today, this is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber. This is an increasingly important area on overseeing the departments progress in building ...

Opportunity to present to you the overview of the armys 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am even more more so pleao be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform, as an army soldier. So, thats always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here in the process of providing an overview of what the army is doing today. Ill sketch out the current operating environment, what our fiscal posture has looked like over the last five to six years and how this ...

Ladies and gentlemen, were going to get started here. Ladies and gentlemen, im captain hope cronin, air force public affairs. Thank you for being with us. First, just to reiterate ground rules. One question, one followup, please, so we can get to as many questions as possible. Additionally, ill give a final question towards the end. As a reminder, tomorrow at 9 30 in the morning well have the air force space budget rollout, that is a separate budget rollout. If you would like more information ab...

Information immediately the process going through to be able to stop it. The court put the final stop on it. It was corrected and its now clear. Yes, sir, and were purging the data as well. Were purging the data we had collected under the previous authorization. The issue on 702, most oklahomans i you can watch this hearing in its entirety at cspan. Org. We take you live to a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing with the director of the Missile Defense agency and other pentagon officials te...

Mr. Chairman secretary mattis im a new congressman and i have to tell you i am surprised but we have across the globe and i quickly became the captain of a 335 ship me. With that to future Defense Strategy might change or evolves . And dont want to put words in your routes. So sowetos major conflicts simultaneously so do you envision and i know your crystal ball may not be perfect but what about that aspect changing over time . The enemy or our adversary that is like what he uses with that unpre...

Year 2018 budget requests. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee. We welcome chairman dunford ba back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing is, how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring both the external threats on the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the last two years that our country faces more serious complex pretty challenges now than we have ever f...

Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This co...

Im 111 years of bipartisan land conservation, which began with president roosevelts leadership. The most glaring example is an ongoing attack on the Antiquities Act in general and the National Monument in particular. Trying to roll back as a taxpayer weight especially at a time when the administration is proposing significant staff cutbacks. In my opinion, another management designation is that they are seers Intertribal Coalition inspectors working to protect these lands. I believe any action b...