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Next, Defense Department officials testified at a House Oversight hearing on the f 35 joint star fighter jet program. They were asked about maintenance issues and concerns that prime contractor Lockheed Martin provided defective spare parts and Outdated Technology systems for the aircraft. And generalsident manager of the f35 program at Lockheed Martin corporation also joined the hearing remotely to answer questions from lawmakers. The committee will come to order. Like to all, i would congratul...

Secretary esper hello, everyone. Im secretary of defense mark esper, im joined by joint chief of staff chair general milley and chairman lopez. Today we want to talk to you about all that d. O. D. Is doing to protect our people, our troop, our families from the coronavirus and what were also doing to support the interagency whole of government efforts to protect the American People. First i want to thank all of you for your patience and commitment to the nation in this time of great challenge. I...

Cspans q a. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. Defense secretary mark eer and mark milley were on capitol hill to testify for the 2020 request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military moderation efforts and defense funds for border wall construction. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony in the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request and our witnesses we thank them for our s...

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 officials now talk about what this means for the program. As i have consistently said, the f35 Program Remains one of my top acquisition and sustainment priorities. Earlier this month at our last press briefing, i made a commitment to come back to you when we were ready to announce the next f35 contract. So here we are. As the f35 Program Milestone authority, alongside Lieutenant General eric, the f35 Program Executive officer, were here to announce the u. S. Department of defense and Lo...

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 ...

Largest taxpayer investment with the backbone of us and ally fifth generation inventory for the foreseeable future. The joint Program Office are laser focus to drive cost ou out, quality up and achieving timely deliveries to our war fighters. With respect to ontime deliver delivery, we exceeded the total aircraft quantity we delivered to the war fighter last year and have 96 percent ontime delivery rate. A tremendous improvement for one from where we were last year with an average ontime deliver...

As the f35 Program Milestone authority, alongside Lieutenant General eric fick, the f35 Program Executive officer, were here to announce that the u. S. Department of defense and Lockheed Martin have made tremendous progress and now have an Agreement Regarding the lot 12 through 14 production contract. This is a new, stark milestone for the f35 enterprise, as the f35 is our largest tacair investment and will form the backbone of the u. S. And allied fifthgeneration inventory for the foreseeable f...

Announcing a 34 billiondollar contract with Lockheed Martin for 478 aircraft they talk about a faster timetable for the program. As i have consistently said the f 35 program is one of my priorities earlier this month i made a commitment to come back when we were ready to announce the next contract and we are. The Program Milestone authority the f 35 program we are here to announce Us Department of defense and Lockheed Martin that now has an Agreement Regarding the option contract this is a stark...

Have a concrete investigation based on all the facts and investigation of the scene. Pressure is monitoring developments and joins us live from washington d. C. So give us more of the detail of this event. Well this is very fluid and still ongoing and as weve said several times through the last couple of hours the 1st reports always tend to be slightly confused and we should take everything with a pinch of stall until its confirmed by the police what we do know is that just after 11 oclock texas...