Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
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
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