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Joining us after the coffee break i hope everyone had a chance to refresh themselves and maybe chat with a new person youve met today. My name is andrew and i am a senior fellow at the center for strategic and International Studies and the International Security program and director of the Defense Industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call the defense trade or the cooperation in the acquisition of the deal with our allies and partners. Im going to introduce the panel and maybe kick off the question and answer session with the group. Our pan...

Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply...

Foy. Conflict zones are not clear cut, and the government of assad is still the governing authority there. While we take every precaution to ensure that no assistance, mind you, no assistance benefits this brutal regime, lines are continually shifting, and we need to make allowances for activities that could touch the government on controlled areas. So i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlelady has the only time remaining. Ms. Lee i urge a no vote, and i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields back. The question is on the am...

Foy. Conflict zones are not clear cut, and the government of assad is still the governing authority there. While we take every precaution to ensure that no assistance, mind you, no assistance benefits this brutal regime, lines are continually shifting, and we need to make allowances for activities that could touch the government on controlled areas. So i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlelady has the only time remaining. Ms. Lee i urge a no vote, and i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields back. The question is on the am...

Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military healthcare, com satisfactory reform, reright of the military code of justice, as well as significant organization zational reform. While a lot has been done, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and especially for tomorrow. Yes, we all have an obligation to see that taxpayers dollars are spent effectively, especi...