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In our regular your money segment today, were going to take a look at debates going on over the federal budget, specifically how it could affect weapons programs at the department of defense. Joining us for that conversation, marcus, their Global Business supporter, good morning. How is the dod looking at current budget negotiations going on . Well, they want a budget deal quickly. Right now, the big problem for them is that the continuing resolution is is happening and programs have to continue at the 2015 level. What does ta that mean . That means they cant up productions of planes. Controversial plane and a plane that has been very much overbudget that the pentagon says it needs to start buying more of to get the price down, so, economies of scale and what not, so, you have issues like that. Its just the f35. Apache helicopters, around 25 in 2016. Those are actually being used in afghanistan and iraq, so, very much needed. So, you have that aspect of the economy of scales and the other big problem is acquisition reform. President obamas veto of the ndaa last week doesnt push through a lot of acquisition reform initiatives and thats more of a hill thing that nart mccain and representative thornberry, they were the ones that pushed that through. When you say acquisitions, that means what . Policy. How the acquisition system works. Its been very much criticized for everything from being overbudget and behind sket. This takes away a lot of o the bureaucracy, but essentially with the veto right now, none of it goes through and the status quo remains in place. How much of the Defense Department budget is currently comprised. If you take a look at Weapons Systems, how much of the dod is comprised of that that. The pentagon budget for 16 and the budget that hasnt been passed yet is about 600 billion. Thats total. Now, a lot of that is for operations and maintenance. Thats fighting the wars in iraq, afghanistan, air strikes in syria. For acquisition, 100 billion for stuff like buying planes, ships and tanks and trucks. Currently being manufactured, but those that have to be purchased in the future and upgraded, does that fall into that one pot . It falls into that one pot. A lot of the ground work for the future programs tharks where not having a budget hurts them. A lot of the groundwork for these programs is starting to get laid now, so it may not be you buy a tank this year, but you tart buying the equipment this year and it takes multiple years to get to the pointy you buy the full tank or fighter jet or the full ship. Those future programs, those future puchlss, is this new equipment to replace outstanding equipment . Does it work alongside it . Tgs boits both. A lot of what the pentagon had been doing has been improving stuff it has. Its been taking f16s and f15s, stuff thats been around since the 70s and 80s, putting new engines and sensors so they can see more in them. And so, all that depends on a longterm budget that possibly has to birth down here on capitol hill. Right. Without that budget, the pentagon says its going to be forced to tread water. Our guest is going to be with us not only to talk about the budget, but specific projects within that program. If you want to ask questions about the process, 202487 for democrats and you can tweet us at cspan wj and send us an email. You brought it up. The f35. First of all, it probably is an obvious question. What is it and why is it a controversial product pto some . Its a fighter jet of the future for the military. Now, the military in the past has operated all sorts of different planes. Right now, say the air force has f22s, the navy has f18s. What the f35 will go do, its same plane. Its been purchased by the air force and the marine corps and they do different things. The marine one can take off from very, very short runways and land vertically. Basically, this is the most complicated fighter jet ever built because of the types of sensors and cameras and types of spy equipment if you will thats inside of it. Planes over the years have had this type of stuff added. Bolt on, if you will, but the big problem with this one is everything is is, everything is is being built in this from the beginning. The problem is its never been done before and there was very optimistic and rosie protections for this plane and its had a lot of trouble in development. In recent years, its gotten better. Still at the pentagon and people on the hill an elsewhere would say it still has a long way to go. In some cases, the term being used in development was the opposite of something called fly before you can buy. Can you explain that . Its just that. You need to do a test drive and see if this stuff works and do some sort of prototyping. They have the most expensive programs for planes. Theyre about to buy a new bomber. They havent bought one in 30 years. The b 2 was the last bomber it bought. They were going to buy 100 of them, ended up buying 21. Ended up costing 2 billion y r each, so the big thing with this new bomber, its a classified program and the pentagon claims it hasnt actually flown a plane yet, but it tested a lot of the equipment and systems that are going to be on the plane to hopefully keep it on track. Whats the price tag. Right now, were looking at 400 billion. That includes and this is an estimate. This is way out. Projected on buying 2500 of these for the United States military. And thats out to 2030s, 2040s. 400 billion. That includes development and production. Of the plane. Zbr and so, if there is no longterm budget deal, does that affect how much gets purchased by the exactly. It does. In 2015, the department bought as a budget, 38 planes. Supposed to ramp up to 57 and again, with that economy of scale, when you ramp up, the cost goes down. Continuing resolution for the whole year, guess what . Theyre going to cost more. Marcus, our guest of defense one talking about weapon systems at the department of testifies and how it could be affected by the budget. Make those calls and post on our facebook pages and twitter pages as well. Lets start with mary ann. In south carolina. Our independent line. Good morning, go ahead. Good morning. I was wondering, i had heard for our new jet to china. I was wondering if that is true and also, military because i feel like we are right now in a cold war. Im really worried about china and korea and you know, i just feel like we need more defense. Is it your thought that we dont have enough weapons to meet those challenges . Yes, i feel that everything is very old. My son was a navy man and he had told me long ago that our military, our ships, everything, was so outdated and i feel like were in great danger right now. I think Everybody Knows that about us. To the point of the f35 and leaking of the plans, its more believed that its been acknowledged that china had hacked defense contractor to get some of those plans and you see it. The chinese are testing a fighter jet of their own that looks very much like the f35. The big thing with china is they try to reverse engineer a lot of our stuff. A lot of corporate espionage, if you will. Less of actually being able to penetrate into the pentagon network, but getting into the contractor network. Now, what they, for what theyre able to do very rapidly, they have a lot of trouble with making engines and types of sensors, basically, whats under the hood of the jet, so, yes, they have stolen stuff and yes, it does very much concern the pentagon. Jason from washington, d. C. Go ahead. Hey. The military procurement stuff seems a little backwards to me. It seems in places where were needed in battling isis, the a10s would probably be the less Cost Effective solution, but the military has been trying to kill the best way we have of combatting these situations over and over and over again. The idea is that theres a number of people that just keep coming out every year trying to keep this in existence where ten or 15 would equal one of these advanced systems. The future of avenue onices has to do with not having a man in a plane. Lets be honest here. What we can do with a 10,000 drone or a Million Dollar drone is is going to be the future of aviation and were pouring money into a lot of these systems that for all intents and purposes, you can do with robotics. So, he brought up the a10. A great point. Might want to explain. Its a 1970s, vintage plane that can fly low and slow close to the battlefield. Its made to get shot at. It can take bullets. The pilots producted by a titanium bathtub is the way its been described to me so that the bullets cant go into the cockpit if its being shot at. Its main role is to help soldiers on the battle feed. If they need somebody to a plane the actually, if theyre getting shot at, to fire at the bad guys, if you will, the a10 does that better than any plane out there. The controversial thing is the air force has said you know, its been around, we love this plane a, but we cant afford it anymore. We need to go and, we need to take that money, were under the sequestration and were under budget caps, so we need to take the money and invest it in the future because we havent been buying lots of new equipment. We have to buy more new hightech congresswomen. So, right now, Congress Wont let them retire the a10. Its actually deploying now to turkey to conduct air strikes against isis. So, its still very, very, very much used in the current war. So, you could see why its controversial that a they want to get rid of it. To the point of aif onices and unmanned aircraft, very much a big debate in the military. Especially in the air force and navy, you have the Navy Secretary in the past say he doesnt view any plane after the f35 being manned. And you know, theres people out there who say, no, you still do need to have manned platforms because nothing can replicate a pilot in the dock wit pit. In reality, youre going to see more of a shift toward unmanned aircraft. More stealthy aircraft, like Something Like your b2 bomber which can evade the enemy on the ground, can speak up on them. Youll see more stuff like that, but youre probably still going to see manned aircraft for a long, long time. Here is is gus in florida. Hi, just call iing to find o, anybody does a budget. How much of it is labor. The cost for the uniformed soldier. Future, present and past. You know, we you them if theyre injured or anything like that nature. What is the true cost, say Social Security is this and this. Isnt that going to be the biggest part of the budget, the labor cost . Gus, youre right. The personnel costs and the budget are a huge cost. About a quarter of the Defense Budget right now. And the big thing is it keeps the cost of personnel, the cost of health care, just taking care of soldiers and troops who have been constantly deploying, that number has been going up. At the same time, the number for buying new equipment, the procurement accounts, thats been going down. Its been getting crowded out particularly right now with those budget caps. Personnel costs keep going up from more than ten years of continuous war. A viewer on twitter, political end fighting, defense and intelligence costs and sites ndaa as the most recent example. Theres always been fighting over amendments. Two controversial things in this budget right now are the reason why president obama vetoed it is because theyre like i said earlier, the budgets capped by the budget control act. Everyone knows about that and the Congress Took the money that the pentagon had requested, the Obama Administration had requested. Put it in this war budget. The war budgets not subject to sequestration. Not subject to budget caps and it took us 38 billion and took it over there. The Obama Administration says you have to come wup a plup wit to fix the whole federal budget, not just the Defense Department and also, the administration was angry about that a they werent given legislation to be able to close the military prison at guantanamo bay. Marcus, our guest with defense. Walter up next with new orleans. Hello. Hello. Morning. Good morning. I appreciate your taking my call. My question is how about just military weapons industry and the fact that United States right now like with the f35, if we dont buy those planes, are they eligible to be sold to other countries . I mean, can boeing and all those Big Companies, they can very well sell them to china, cant they . Well, they cant sell them to china, but for example, a plane like the f35 thats being purchased by a number of allies t plane was designed to be exported from the beginning, so, they are about a dozen nations already that are going to buy the f35. Thing is, there arent a lot around, so, if the program, if that program ever was canceled, its not going to sell, theyre not going to sell the ones they have so someone else. But that doesnt mean they cant sell the stuff that you have now. So, stuff like f15s and 16s, they will, the u. S. Military will retire them and they are old, but they might come in useful for other countries. Lots of countries, more than 30 around the world, fly the f16. So you could take a plane like that and export it, but the u. S. Military cant sell, the United States as a whole cant sell weapons to places like china or russia, north korea, iran, the obvious ones. Our money segment, the resent election in canada, does that affect the f35 program . It will. They are supposed to buy about 60 planes and the pledge to cancel the program. Now, immediately, its not going to be the biggest problem. The economy to sale issue where youll just have fewer planes coming through, but there are countries like israel and japan and south korea who are not part of the original partners on the program, but have signed on and said we want this plane and were going to buy this plane. So in my opinion, theyll move some planes around and it wont impact it that much. But you have a key ally, who has been with you from the beginning on the f35 program. Now saying its not going to be there. The argument says they can come wup a cheaper plaep, the super hornet, which will work better for their current system. It can. See, canada doesnt do what the United States terms first strike. Its coming in and actually being the first planes to come in to a war. Taking out radars and airfields and surface to air missiles, that we use to United States uses stealthy planes like the f22 and b2 bomber, to do this. To do this type of mission. Canada doesnt do that. So you dont necessarily need a stealthy plane to for your air force if youre not conducting that kind of mission. So in way, for canada, a plane like the f18 are probably even better. The f15, which is more money, would probably suit them better because they want a long range plane that can intercept when the russians come and fly it down the coast. But they have f18s. This is just a newer version of it. Lets hear from earl in st. Louis, missouri. Hello, good morning. Morning. You brought up two things i was very much interested in and one was the 8, which is for i think as combat troops go, in the last 30 years, the apache helicopter, the cobra for the marine corps and the a10s, probably been