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Of expert witnesses joining us here today and want to take a moment to a knowledge that while i cannot imagine to be a better place to work and the subcommittee apparently somebody thinks there is a better job in washington d. C. So this is the last hearing steve bin his current position to go to the secretary of defense for space policy. And our loss is his game he does a great job i know he will do a great job there as well. [applause] so today we have witnesses general raymond Commander Air f...

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Major general will spend the next few minutes [inaudible] watch is complete he will take questions and youll be moderating this discussion. Please limit it to one question or one followup. That allows anybody an opportunity to try to get questions. So without further ado, general horlander. So good afternoon. Great to be back in again and see some family faces here and i really appreciated the opportunity to present to the overview of the armies 2018 budget r...

The army, navy and air force and Missile Defense. This is two and a half hours. Once hes complete, he will take questions. He will moderate questions. Without further adieu general. Good afternoon, great to be back here again and seeing some familiar faces here. I appreciate the opportunity to present to you the over view of the 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am everyone more so pleased to be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform as an army soldier so i...

The army, navy and air force and Missile Defense. This is two and a half hours. Once hes complete, he will take questions. He will moderate questions. Without further adieu general. Good afternoon, great to be back here again and seeing some familiar faces here. I appreciate the opportunity to present to you the over view of the 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am everyone more so pleased to be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform as an army soldier so i...

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...

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 ...

On efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing Global Threats to military readiness. This is an hour. All right. Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And today rolling out a report on Army Modernization. Called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin ...

On efforts to modernize the army was the focus of discussion covering concerns about increasing Global Threats to military readiness. This is an hour. All right. Thank you everyone for sticking around while we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And today rolling out a report on Army Modernization. Called the Army Modernization imperative. A new big five for Army Modernization. I want to begin ...

Modernization. I want to begin by thanking sponsors of that study. Without sponsors we dont get to because do studies. This study was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics. Drs technologies and l3 as well. I want to thank them of their support. I will briefly walk through the chief of findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80 pages. Its a pretty quick read. Theres a lot of pictures. I urge you to go read whole thing. I will hit the highlights. And then we wil...

Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Next, a look at military readiness and increasing terrorism threats, hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. They focused on Chemical Warfare and modernization of the army. The discussion is an hour. All right, thank you, everyone, for sticking around as we made our transition. As i mentioned, were going to roll into the second half of the event, where were going to focus on Army Modernization. And csis is today rolling out a report on Arm...