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 it is always something that inspires me. I will take a few minutes here and in the process of providing an over view of what the army is doing today, i will sketch out the operating environment of our fiscal posture have looked like over the last five or six years and how this is in the priorities. Of course, i will spend some time providing appropriation review a reviews and some reviews. Americas army is more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that the current pictorial on the slides before you not only represents some of the Current Operations where army forces are heavily engaged. The velocity instability of the world. This observation alone makes it increasingly clear that the ability to conduct decisive option while maintaining and carrying competencies for the current fight representing demanding challenges that the army faces. It can perform successfully across the spectrum of this operations. It continues to advance its capabilities for tomorrows conflicts. Today Ground Forces remaining the most committed of military force with more than 180,000 u. S. Army soldiers for the act of component. America soldiers directly contribute to our nation to defeat isis and afghanistan and conflicts throughout europe and asia and the middle east. The steady demand for train or army unit to defeat adversaries and assure our allies and deter. Americas army is engaged and the next five can represent in a strategic challenge opposed by pure powers. Some with Nuclear Capabilities and advance technologies and large and more sophisticated militaries. While it is difficult to define the precision, we should plan all domains of warfare being contested. These anticipated attributes demanding, the armys future capacities and capabilities in order to protect americas security interest today and tomorrow. Conducting current operation and sustaining readiness and making progress and lethal future army over predictable and consistent and fundingyear to year. The army takes important steps to improve readiness and improve ready to face the changing threats of tomorrow. It is valuable to start by looking at the armys budget overtime, providing commentary that may inform your views of the armys current funding request. You can see clearly from the chart of the armys based budget have been on the decline since 2012 while inflation is averaging between 1 and 2. 5 . The fy 18 represents the upturn of the request since the budget control act and starts to arrest the armys readiness to decline and future readiness of the force. The base budget represented on this chart and as you know is meant to equip the nations army has been significantly impacted boo i t by the budget control act. The army has been able to maintain current warfare and flexibility provided and the funding provided by our government. The market decrease of our funding level forced the army of longterm investments for r the benefit of near term readiness. Like wise, not fully represented on this chart, large contingency have been smaller and oco is reducing as clearly portrayed on this chart. The funding level of 17 budget in this 18 based requests are consistent with the Administration Goals of the u. S. Army to rebuild readiness and prepare for future challenges. With this fy 18 president budget submission, the following are some of the main highlights of our requests. First and for most, the budget have been form mated to command the best train and ready land force that is we can generate. To do that, you must fully fund the Counter Terrorism and competencies and necessary for current fight while building decisive consistent with the threats thats the budget ari quests further sustained 1,018,000 soldiers across total army isra realistic and specialized training and best maintained equipment that we can provide. We are able to focus some of our resources to better support our operations of the training of the force. With this budget, we are able to sustain the programs and advance soldiers and technological capabilities. We do all this while seek to achieve the highest levels of accountability. This budget and those that follows should provide the army the necessary resources of Current Operations improving readiness and making progress of modern and capable and lethal future army. At a funding level with current demands ton force. It highlights the priorities that we use to formulate the budget and the comments of this 2018 budget request. To achieve the u. S. Armys ultimate goal and remaining the best leg equipped and ready arm force in the world. The armys base budget request is 137. 2 billion of fy 17. As you should observe of that margin of growth, there is notable increases and on onm this slide represents funding requirements for all three components. The regular army and the National Guard and the army reserved. As a break out in the aggregated of the major defense pro appropriations. 2017 National Defense authorization act reversed the plan and in strength declined and total a much appreciated start ensure tg army has fully meant. The increase of fy 18 goes to covering, the readiness required of that growth is military and funding. Additionally the army was able to leverage the growth. Only a small portion of the growth remains to apply for our future modernizations of our accounts. I will walk you through the details. I will start with our accounts. This slide provides you of our clear picture and how they remaining stable. Many of you are aware that the u. S. Army and strengths have declined in recent years tch. The army accordingly have to reduce in avoid building. Increase of 1,018,000 level. Fill some holes in the formation. Fy 18 budget requests maintaining increased in funding associated with these necessarily retention efforts is represented on the fallen. Military personnel appropriation counts for the larger portion of the army based budget. Our requests of multi army, allowances and recruiting incentive and mandates for training and reserve components. Given our initial ramps and fy 17 and full sustainment in 18 of the 1,018,000, you can see our request is 2. 8 billion higher than fy 17 enacted out. The great increases of our soldiers basic pay of housing allowances and assistant. I will now transition to the armys operations and maintenance appropriations. As i mentioned earlier, this is one area of requesting growth of the current year budget. Starting with the regular army of the 2018 budget request totals 38. 9 million. This readiness is more than prepared. Including readiness for Decisive Action of capabilities and of major combat operations. This reflected in the armys 19 combat training rotations. These rotations are focused on training for regular army or components. The armys request providing critical fund and engagement activities with our allies and strategic partners, such as spa specific pathways and some of you are familiar with. It will represents the small increase in maintenance and help bring our equipment to a greater level to prepare and enhancing Army Position stocks thatll improve Global Response and capabilities. This request strongly supports, requirements on the army 74 major installations. Funding it at a 98 of the critical requirements. We are also able to increase facility and sustainment funding and 67 of critical equipment of last year and 75 for this year. These funding levels are consistent across all three components. A large amount of bag log maintenance still existing across the floor. The armys 2018 budget requests supporting a 10. 2 billion of the National Guards and u. S. Army reserves. National guard it is not only higher than 2017 funding level, consistent of the regular army seeks to restore readiness and based operation support as well as continuing to support families and programs of the well being of the armys valuable assets and people. U. S. Army reserve of 2. 9 of 77 functional ber golden gate gates bergades. Having spent a few minutes discussing army near term readiness, lets now transition to army modernization. The armys fy 18, Research Development and acquisition budget requests, 26. 8 billion represents an increase of 600 million from the fy 17 enacted level. Thats an enacted level that includes a pretty sizable uptake because of the amendment that was recently include inside the fy 17 appropriation act. However, i would say that the majority of this increase is more so in Research Development testing evaluation that it is in procurement accounts that you will see. This budget request represents modernization priorities that we must pursue in order to advance Material Solutions to retain or advantage of our advance adversaries. This request prioritizes the requirements necessary to deter or required to the army is accepting risks and developing new capabilities. Ke so we can put in the hands of our soldier in near terms. In the upper right hand quadrant of the chart, you will see the list of top ten modernizations. This is a really important list here as goi throui go through t remainder of this briefing, you will see me going in order based on these top ten priorities. These are really important. As you try to understand how we made some choices across our portfolio. These were pdeveloped of analyss review process to prioritize funding and in order to bounce scribner term readiness, we call this the spar process. Allowing army leaders to review and addressing our capability gaps to make informed decisions. The next two charts, i will highlight how our budget requests supporting these priorities. The lower right pie chart shows the armys 11th largest equipment. I asked you to take away from this is that the army requires a broad, comprehensive set of modernization successfully execute the combat. Let me transfer to our procurement our fy 18 requests of 17. 4 billion is consistent of what you saw in 18 or if not just slightly below that, 17, excuse me. These priors will ensure we allocate resources to sustain of the most important weapon systems, other critical equipment and i will now highlight for these term priorities. Air Missile Defense, that represents the armys most urgent and capable needs. Given the possibility of confronting a substantial antiaccess in areas denieal of capabilities. This budget request includes funding for several critical error and procurements and modifications kit and service to air systems report. In the area of long range fire to improve our able to respond effectively to service fire of our missiles and cannons. The service life extinction of 121 attack missiles adding another ten years of service life to them. The procurement of 6,000 in the continued low Rate Initial Production of 93 patriots. The budget accounts for both armys operational and training requirements of the efforts increasing our inventories of ammunitions and 2017. 2018 requests will help ensure availability and critical ammunitions of combat and command. 480 rounds of excalibur. For example, the army pursuing the multi year to improv improve benefiting all the ar arm services. The area of mobility and protection of our maneuver formation, the army developing of combat vehicle, abramss a an strikers and bradley. This includes upgrades to bradley and avery flplatforms a procurement of 42 low rates. Additionally for the system, full rate productions of 59 cent the mission is available after protecting system of tanks and on vehicles engaging in combat. On todays battlefield, the army requires greater ability against warfare. The army needs for ew, primarily funding, this requests does include other procurement funding to support the integration of the profit system. The armys committed to eliminating network of infrastructure capability gap. These includes the joint battle command platform and more fighter Information Network tactical thatll enable more secured communication level. This requests procures 13 new bills. It also funds, providing advancement procurements. The request for 47 funding so now let me transition to our Research Development testing evaluations and appropriations. You can see this is about a billion dollars above what was enacted in fy 17. This enables the army to prioritize the increment up grapds of new start so you can put technologically advance equipment in the hands of soldiers sooner. The fy 18 requests including 2. 4 billion for science and technology funding. It will demonstrate a mobile and high energy to defeat multiple threats at the tactical reign. It will Fund Advances and combat vehicles and Automotive Technologies and funding aviation and advance technology and providing capabilities. Turning towards engineering, here are some important focus areas for the top ten priority that is we discussed. In the area of integrated Missile Defense, the number one priorities, for air and Missile Defense of Tactical Forces of contested environment. We are investing the stinger product Improvement Program, patriot Improvement Program. In the ongoing risk production tests and upgrades to existing assets to develop testing at missile range in new mexico. To advance armys long range fire capabilities of rt e funds to increase range and volume of fire and positions of fire. This includes high velocity and cannon producing across multiple position and artillery syste systems. Programs on safety and cost reductions and reliability and new improved relations. To improve mobility, legality and protection and vehicles and weapon systems, we are pursuing Cost Effective of replacement vehicles and improvements of platforms. These leading efforts in the area are protypingprotyping. A Third Generation of infrared and information data link for both the abrams tank and the bradley vehicles. Excuse me. Our commercial and globa global the army requires most stand alone and embedded capabilities of near Platform Communications to combat this threat. The assure positioning, navigation and timing can provide these capabilities. Nearing the Electronic Warfare when i covered exclusively, in the area, of u. S. Army and operational needs, providing capabilities to coordinate, manage and deconflicting the use of magnetic spectrum and synchronizing operations. The newly established Rapid Capabilities office is working Program Managers and other stake hold everiers and rapidly rapidly accelerate the development of capabilities as well to enable ground maneuver in a gps. Cyber operations enabling global regional and cyber space defender to conduct planning. In the area of cyber, our efforts are centered on the persistent side training requirements. In this final ret priority category of vertical lift, we are continuing to improve the turbine engine program, the Improvement Program and patchy product Improvement Program. It continues the development of this chart of program values more than 250 million, Major Investments requested of procurement quantities for each. I will leave that for your study backup i want to giver you an appreciation for some of the procurement quantities here. So let me transition to our facilities and one of the keys to readiness is installation readiness. I discussed during the portion of this briefing, the armys investments and the modernization of existing facilities, the armys new construction is compared to low level remarkably lower than last year. There is growth of the fy 18 compares to fy 16 and fy 17. It is still the smallest in recent years as the army finds 37 construction project of 1. 2 billion of this request. The housing account totaling 529 million. There is some growth suppo supporting lastly, the armys fy 18 bracket funding of clean up and excess properties and brach locati bracket locations. Requests of 71 million. This goes to funding daytoday its operations and 29 army also requesting 962 million for congressional mandate Chemical Program and continuing op reratn in Pueblo Colorado and bluegrass, kentucky. Many of you are aware that the army have been managing large since 2001. This is been an account thats epic blow. The army 2018 budget requests representing requirements for military personnel and operat n operations and maintenance and Research Developments and acquisitions. This years components request of 28. 9 billion. 2018 requests supporting operation of centennial and operation european. It includes 4. 9 billion of the afghan firm. This is a fund that replaces both iraq and syria training fund. 2. 9 million portion of this primarily supporting soldier and maintaining the current levels of afghanistan and iraq. I know there were some discussions in the previous with mr. Roth and general, this requests covers and currently authorizing it