Reports that the cfpb was asleep at the wheel. Cspan programs are available at www. Cspan. Org, on our home page and by searching the video library. Now another hear on the president s 2018 budget request. He joined other pentagon officials last week to testify before the House Armed Services committee on Strategic Forces. Some of the questions focused on the intercepter Missile Defense test. It runs just over an hour. Good evening. I want to welcome everybody to our hearing this afternoon. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Fiscal year 2018 Missile Defense programs and activities. We have an esteemed group of witnesses with us today. Mr. Todd harvey, acting assistant secretary of defense for strategy plans and capabilities. Vice admiral james syring, u. S. Navy director Missile Defense agency. Lieutenant general james dickinson. Integrated Missile Defense and Commander ArmyStrategic Forces command. And mr. Barry pike who has the best accent on the panel. Is Program Executive officer Army Missiles and space. And before i get started, i want to take the chairmans prerogative for a minute. For almost 37 years vice admiral syring has served his country in uniform. Member of the subcommittee are most familiar with him as director of the Missile Defense agency which he has led since november of 2012. I remember the problems with the prior leadership of mda and the devastating impact in 2012. That has all changed under the admirals leadership. I think theres no better testament than the recent Midcourse Defense System test against an icbm class target. With everything going on in the world, this success sends a powerful and unmistakable signal to allies and adversaries alike that we will defend ourselves from the threat of Ballistic Missile attack. We thank you for your service and very much hope its not complete yet. With that, because we were called for votes, were on a shorter timeline. Im going to dispense with my Opening Statement and yield to my friend and colleague from tennessee for any Opening Statement he may have. Thank you. I would like to add my praise for admiral syring. For his wonderful career so far in the military. We hope it continues. I also want to ask unanimous consent to put my statement into the record so we can get on with the hearing. Without objection, so ordered. What i would ask so well have time for questions and also time to go into the classified section is ask each witness to try to summarize their statement in three or four minutes, if they could. The full statement will be admitted to the record without objection. First well start with mr. Todd harvey. Youre recognized for summary of your testimony. Thank you, sir. Chairman rogers, Ranking Member cooper, members of the subcommittee, thank you for opportunity to testify in the priorities and posture missile defeat programs and activities in the defense departments efforts to sustain our homeland capability so we remain ahead of the threat and provide effective inoperable regional Missile Defense capability. The u. S. Homeland is currently protected by the ground base Midcourse Defense System. Improving the capacity effective to the system is one of our highest priorities. The president s Budget Proposal for 2018 would fund the long range discrimination radar, help lay the ground work for new radar in hawaii. Would continue funding advance discrimination Sensor Technology and spacebased kill assessment programs. We remain on track to complete the deployment of remaining interceptors in alaska to bring the total to 44 this year. Were also bolstering our defenses against advance Cruise Missiles. From a regional standpoint, the president s fy2018 budget request also continues the deployment of Missile Defenses tailored to threats in europe, middle east, asia pacific region. In europe were continuing to implement the european phase and working in close collaboration with our nato allies to develop sensors and interceptors. President s budget request also supports the aegis system that will be deployed in poland in the 2018 time frame. Nato allies have committed to spend more than a billion dollars on Missile Defense command and control. And many are improving their national bmd capabilities. Asia pacific, our forced posture includes bmd capable ships and patriot batteries deployed in japan and south korea. And the recent deployment of thaad to south korea. We also maintain robust Missile Defense presence in the middle east including land and sea based assets deployed in the defense of four forward located forces and those of our allies and partners. This is in addition to build capacity for the counterparts that contribute to the ability to defend themselves. We must continue to look ahead. Which means assuring there are strategies that address the most dangerous threats we confront while positions ourselves to respond to emerging threats over the next decade. On january 27th of this year, the president directed the secretary of defense to initiate a new ballistic Missile Defense review to identify Missile Defense capabilities in the face of rapidly growing missile threats. The bmdr will be informed by the administration determination to develop state of the art Missile Defense system, to defend the homeland and our regional interest. We expect to complete it this fall. It will complement the report mandated by the fy2017 ndaa. The department of defense continues to develop systems to protect vital u. S. National security interests. We intend to stay ahead of the Cruise Missile developments, sea capabilities to lower cost per intercept and defeat emerging ballistic and Cruise Missile threats. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Look forward to your questions. I thank you. The chair now recognizes admiral syring. Thank you for the opportunity to appear today. Ill submit my written statement for the record. In lieu of an Opening Statement, i request permission to play the video from the test last week. We would love to see that. I will narrate as this goes since its unnarrated. Give the committee an idea of what was accomplished last week. Test was conducted on the 30th of may out in the pacific. Heres a blue water chart that depicts the test construct. The Ground Base Interceptor of fired from Vandenburg Air force base. It was tracked on wake island and the sbx in the northwest pacific. Giving the irpt scepter solution to vandenburg to intercept a quadrant in the Marshall Islands. The red indicates the target flyout and the green indicates the gbi from vandenberg. Heres a picture of the target lifting off from the atoll in the Marshall Islands, 5,000 miles away from the coast of california. This is the longest range target that weve ever flown. The highest altitude and the highest closing velocity for an intercept. This was done with countermeasures. Next youll see a picture of the groundbased interceptor launch from Vandenburg Air force base out of a test silo that is completely production representative of the actual silos at vandenburg, but this is what we test out of. The gbi is production representative of the block ones that will be fielded to fill out the 44 gbis by the end of this calendar year. What youll see next is the sensor view of the kill vehicle, which is separated from the gpi and what the kill vehicle saw in space. This is actual live data from the test. What you see in red is the warhead from the target. And what you see in green is its tank thats flying alongside because in space everything flies at the same velocity. You see the kill vehicle focused on the red warhead and eventually dropping out the other debris in the scene. What you see next is the kill vehicle in acquisition and terminal. Thats an actual picture of the reentry vehicle that was destructed beyond recognition. What youll see here is another infrared picture of the booster and the target warhead with the booster of the gbi flying by literally a second before the kill vehicle killed the target warhead. We had four or five different sensors strewn across the pacific to validate what you just saw. That was not a simulation. That was live data played back from the test. With that, sir, i stand ready for your questions. Outstanding. Thank you very much. Lieutenant general dickinson, youre recognized. Chairman rogers, Ranking Member cooper, and other distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for your continued support of our soldiers, civilians, and their families. This is my initial appearance before this subcommittee and it is indeed an honor to testify before you today to discuss the importance of Missile Defense to our nation and the need to maintain these capabilities in the face of a threat as we all know that continues to grow in both capacity and capability. Today i want to briefly summarize the missions of the organizations i represent. First, space and Missile Defense command or smdc, Army Forces Strategic command rstrat. Which serve as a force provide ner support of our combatant commanders. Our six lines of effort are to number one, protect the homeland. Provide combatready space and Missile Defense professionals, plans synchronized and integrate global operations. Produce or adopt leap ahead concepts and technologies. Preserve an account for the nations critical resources. And promote and foster a positive command climate. Our six lines of effort apply not only to the Missile Defense but also to army space. The army has more than 4,000 military and civilian space cad re that provide continuous spacebased capabilities and support to the war fighter from 22 different locations and 11 different time zones around the world. Within smdcrstrat, concepts they develop space and Missile Defense concepts, requirements and doctrine, provide training to the army space cadray and executes space and Missile Defense development. I also represent the joint force Component Command for integrated Missile Defense. Or jfccimd. Which supports strategic demand in integrating and synchronizing our global Missile Defense operations. For example, today we have approximately 300 fulltime National Guard soldiers located in colorado springs, colorado, alaska, and Vandenberg Air force base, california, who operate the groundbased Missile Defense system. It represents the nations only defense against intercontinental Ballistic Missile attack. These professionals execute a strategically Important Mission 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. They refer to themselves as 300 soldiers protecting the 300 million. Additionally in support of u. S. Strats con, they execute the following tasks. Synchronizing National Level planning, supporting ongoing operations, integrating training exercises, test activities globally, providing recommendations on high Missile Defense resources and advocating for future capabilities. As reported the missile threat continues to grow both in terms of numbers and sophistication. We as a nation must maintain our current Readiness Posture and continue to increase our capabilities to address future threats. Finally id like to highlight the challenges we face today cannot be addressed without the dedication of our greatest asset. Our people. Service members, civilians, contractors and their families those stationed at home as well as those globally deployed, provide support to the army and joint war fighter each and every day. We remain committed to providing trained and ready soldiers, civilians to operate and pursue advancements in space and Missile Defense capabilities for the nation. This committees continued support of Missile Defense operations and the men and women who develop and deploy our systems is essential. Again, i appreciate the opportunity to discuss our missile capabilities and i look forward to addressing your questions. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Pike, youre recognized. Thank you, sir. Chairman rogers, Ranking Member cooper, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, im honored to appear before you to testify on Missile Defense and to thank you for your continued support of our people. Support to our war fighters and their readiness remains our number one priority. I lead the Material Development production fielding and sustainment support for assigned missile and Space Systems for the army. This includes the centralized management of army air and Missile Defense, long range precision fires, close combat, and aviation Missile Systems as well as designated space programs. In todays complex dynamic volatile security environment, army air and Missile Defense is a key strategic enabler. As such our focus continues to be on providing war fighting Solutions Across the operational spectrum. We accomplish this by working with other military departments, the Missile Defense agency, the defense command, to support joint integrated air and Missile Defense capabilities. Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member cooper and members of the subcommittee, i look forward to addressing your questions. I thank all the witnesses for their statements. Ill recognize myself first for questions. Admiral syring, we have seen at least 78 Ballistic Missile tests by north korea since kim jongun came to power. More than 60 of these are assessed to be successes. It appears he has had success with solid fuel Ballistic Missiles, including those launched by submarines and on the ground and he may have recently shown that he can build a reentry vehicle. In an unclassified setting, i have to ask, does this budget request allow us to remain paced ahead of the threat and second, if we fully fund your request and it remains at the same funding, less than 8 billion a year, of which increasing amount of procurement, not reach and development, will we continue to stay ahead of the threat or is it moving faster than we are . Sir, with the work of this committee and others and the support of congress, i would not say we are comfortably ahead of the threat. I would say we are addressing the threat that we know today. And the advancements in the last six months have caused great concern to me and others in the advancement of and demonstration of technology, Ballistic Missiles from north korea. It is incumbent upon us to assume that north korea today can range the United States with an icbm carrying a nuclear warhead. Everything that we are doing plans for that contingency. And in addition to looking ahead to what might be developed what is possible over the next five to ten years. In an open setting to the extent that you can, would you characterize what north korea has been doing for the last six months . They have been not only testing at an alarming rate in violation of international law, but demonstrating technology that feeds development of longer range missiles and more capable missiles as well. Can you discuss your timeline for developing and deploying the lrdr . How long will the mda take to do that and from acquirement finalization to deployment . From the specific requirement of when lrdr was developed, it was back in 2014 and we were under contract in late 2015 if i get the timeline correct. And we will ioc it to the war fighter in late 2020. Okay. With that i will yield to the Ranking Member for his opening questions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. In view of the lateness of the hearing and large number of members who are here, i would defer my questions for the classified portion of the hearing. Chair now recognizes gentleman from arizona, mr. Francs for five minutes. Thanks, mr. Chairman. And admiral syring, everybody said it but i hope you know my name is on the list of those who honor and revere your commitment to this country and your service. Admiral syring, has mda completed the inventory objective for both the sm31b, and the 2a . So there is no