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Partnerships to address a broad range of global challenges, building cyber space capability and confronting uncertainty with agility and innovation. This is a particularly difficult job today as we see a resurgent russia, and rising china, challenging us with Nuclear Capabilities, space and cyber space, as well as countries like north korea and iran, seeking greater roles in these domains, proliferation of technology, and information has increased risks, posed by nonstate actors in many of these...

And thats an understandable perspective if youre looking ahead sixth months. This is not the time to drop the strategic agenda. We should be thinking about what will happen when we come out of the cycle. Right now with things like low Interest Rates a light jpgs competitive advantage, this is the critical time to act. There are a lot of suggestions in the book, probably hundreds of them but i pulled ten that are still relevant right now that i think we ought to think about. We had to take care o...

Cochair of the congressional progressive caucus who has led the fight with low wage workers to raise the standard of living for good paying jobs. Congressman keith ellison. I had a constituent call me the other day and he said you know, keith, ive heard some things about this Transpacific Partnership and im concerned about it, you need to send me a copy of that bill. Of course i cannot do that. Because ive never seen it. If they show you the bill at all they show you one little title of it and t...

Force. Host robert, good morning. Youre on the air. Is an interesting problem because the democratic when, they changed the law a black man was running for mayor. Governor, hefor step down so Governor Cuomo could run. Representing black people in new which the democratic state, even the union, would like to answer this question. Time, they have their men circling around parttime jobs. There arent number of people working consistently. Host we will get a response. Thank you. Guest i appreciate th...

Welcome to defense news. The agency provides 100 of the fuel, andarys food, medical supplies and 85 of its spare parts. With a budget of 39 billion per receives more than 97,000 requisitions and promises more than 9000 contract actions suppliers. Of it plays a key role in withdrawing the mountains of gear to afghanistan. Recently and asked ouabout the Lessons Learned froa dozen year of war. I have been a joint guy for 10 years. I have been involved in and out of iraq. A whole series of popup nat...

Reasons i voted for the training and equiping measures that have been implemented but my frustration is that as you also have observed there is a huge gap between the goals and missions that weve outlined for the United States and the actual action that were undertaking the train and equip activities are way behind what we might have hoped by this point and theres no clear timetable for really achieving the level of capability that we expected or hoped. I hope this has been a very sobering morni...

It will replace three aircraft all of which are 23 years old. The f18 sunday 86 b20 seven. And you have looked at the missions of all of these and you are satisfied that these missions are going to be the mat with this change in getting rid of the older but the f18 will be capable . Its important to point out that this doesnt replace the f18 aviator b. A. Six. Its a transformational capability. He will do everything those three aircraft will do but also in terms of information it will do a signi...

To the 94 bits in these graphs were rough total of 617 billion. My question is kind of a can to a congressman fleming was acting. Does it make any difference to the department of defense if the money comes to the department of defense via the base versus overseas Contingency Operations . How does that affect your ability to do it need to be done . I think i addressed that earlier when i said for the army receiving relief there are end strength provisions above 450 provides 4. 2 billion in one ye...

Have been with an average age of 25th. Averages average. That means quite a few of the fleet are substantially older. The shocking statistic, more than half of our our forces are not sufficiently ready today for our highend play. Interfere with you. You did your defenses and the like. More than half of our forces are not sufficiently. I think we also realize that demand we do that and alltime high all around the certainly its dangerous complex and constantly changing the that i can ever remember...

And signer and nuclear and signs and technology and readiness and people. In other words, i think everything is threatened mr. Chairman, under sequestration. And most of all i fear that american lives would be at risk. So i ask you again, please continue your leadership to get sequestration lifted permanently. Please keep on pushing. Thank you very much, and we all look forward to your questions. Thank you. Im going to ask the staff to put me on the clock because i have really one question direc...