The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any t time i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Good morning todays hearing will focus on the f35 joint Strike Fighter a highly technical Stealth Fighter that is the pentagons largest and most costly acquisition programs in cf 35 Program Began more than 20 years ago the department of defense more than 350 billion onts Development Total cost to sustain the program is estimated at more than 1 trillion. Unfortunately this program is plagued by challenges including major problems with maintenance of the aircraft. This hearing will address the many, time and manpower the military is forceded to spend for spare parts from Lockheed Martin. Juneck 2019 the dod Inspector General found over a threeyear period more than 15000 spare parts for the f35 lacked dialogue that maintains Important Information of the spare parts. 2020 Committee Staff from the majority and minority visited multiple military bases and interviewed personnel who maint
I am pleased that it is one we can work in a bipartisan manner. I believe we all want a Strong Military and a strong private sector and a strong government that is wisely tracking taxpayers money and spending it efficiently for the purposes that it was meant for. I look forward to working with the Ranking Member in the future and i am so pleased he is with us here today. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Good morning. Todays hearing will focus on the f35 joint strike fighter. A highly technical stuff fighter that the pentagon largest and most costly acquisition program. Since the 35 Program Began more than 20 years ago the department of defense has spent more than 350 billion on its development. Total cost to sustain the program are estimated at more than 1 trillion. Unfortunately, this expensive program has been plagued by challenges for years, including major problems with ma
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asked about maintenance issues and concerns that prime contractor Lockheed Martin provided defective spare parts and Outdated Technology systems for the aircraft.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 congratulate Ranking Member komar. This is his First Full Committee Hearing as a ranking i believe we are want a strong private military, strong private sector that is widely tracking taxpayers money and spending it efficiently for the purposes that it was meant for. I look forward to working with the Ranking Member in the future and i am so pleased that he is with us here today. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time, and i now recognize myself for open
Order. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events from washington dc and around the country so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979, c span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next on cspan three, a discussion on federal standards and oversight of Artificial Intelligence. The National Institute of standards and technology and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation center for data innovation is the host of this discussion. Good morning everybody. I am a senior policy analyst with the center for data innovation. We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit Public Policy think take focusing on the intersection of data, technology and Public Policy. We are based in washington dc. We are affiliated with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation which has been ranked for several years as a top scien
Information technology and innovation foundation, which has been ranked for the past several years as ontop technology think tank. Be here today to partner on this great workshop on this event in particular, this panel. Im joined by lynn parker, assistant director for Artificial Intelligence White House Office of science and technology policy. Next to her jason, general manager for Corporate Standards Group at microsoft. Finally Anthony Robbins, Vice President for north American Public sector at in nvidia. So we have a great group of public and private sector experts that can talk about activities in the Standard Development space from both the industry using the standards and the people helping define u. S. Leadership in ai standards. So before we get launched into the discussion, which will be about 45 minutes, then an opportunity for audience q a at the end, i want to do a little bit of stage setting here. So the term ai often used to describe two different but related topics. There