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Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under control. And the third and final piece that i think is worth taking a look at theres a wide variety o...

Can be accomplished [ inaudible ]. Why dont you go ahead and take it. So let me first say, i think you touch upon an important observation about too big to fail which so much relies on the discretionary decisions of government and government decision makers, whether it is the d. O. J. Or the s. E. C. There is nothing about too big to fail economists. It is by political decisions and of course when eric holder goes before congress and said that somebody is too big to jail, that reinforces that perception. And on the data point, so again i would start with data can be suggestive as best and duri...

Big premarket moves on mixed results from cat, gm and mcdonalds. Global volatility, a common theme. Apple cut its spending forecast by about 1 billion. Well explain why. Qualcomm looking for 1 billion in cost cuts by trimming workforce by 15 . First up caterpillar shares taking a hit on a quarterly miss hurt in part by weakness in mining and construction in brazil and china. Cats lowering their full guidance. Doug oberhelman did talk about it. At some point, the economy will stabilize and business will pick up. It was too whose in 2012 and too slow right now. Somewhere in between is where we w...

Commands you support as well. I have been concerned reductions across the services are going to impact the conventional source enablers that our specialop guys work with. How will you work with them on the reductions having on their capabilities . We are closely tied with the special operation committee. 80 of u. S. Special operations come from the army. So we are tightly closed. We are joined at the hip. One of the big Lessons Learned from the last 1015 years is conflict has been the synergistic affect. We will continue to work with them very, very closely. We have them integrated in the majo...

That we made. Among the most contentious issues over the past two years involved the armys restructuring initiative. I understand the army has been put in a difficult position by budget reductions and over the past several years has been exploring a number of option to maximize come pat power while at the same time trying to combat costs. Congress has similarly been taking a hard look at this which is why the commission of the structure of the army was established in the ndaa. If confirmed will you comment to thoroughly reviewing the armys Aviation Restructuring Initiative and working closely ...