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Our training, the last sequestration we had air wings that had to go down to a hard deck which meant the very minimum training. Our marines training at home station, the ones next to deploy and the ones after that all have suffered under the first sequestration and it would be, i think a fair word is devastating, in terms of the navys ability to respond to crisis, to surge to meet a near peer adversary to do the things that america has come to expect and should expect from its navy and marine corps. Thank you, we go to mike turner of ohio. Thank you for your articulation of the issue of the th...

Thats our homeland, our way of life. I think the answer my personal answer is yes. And so im an optimist about this. Not without our challenges. We continue to deal with those challenges. Weve got the best and brightest people. I can tell you. I wish you could meet a lot of them. Phenomenal people working these issues. Im really proud to work with them and be their deputy director. Im humbled to do that. Theyre doing some really important work. And i thank you all again for your contribution to this debate debate. Look forward to your questions. Thank you very much. Were going to open up the q...

Technology exploration now is to look at ways to bring electrooptical sensors into this architecture beyond that opir sensor, that Missile Warning sensor that kicks these things off. And were going to do that by capitalizing on the work thats being done in industry today. Both on sensors, as well as on building Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that fly at very high at attitudes. A High Altitude platform is also key to one of the other investments we want to make. So if we go back just a few years here, we made a big bet on airborne layser in the light 90s and early 2000s. And that system that we built...

Any capability, maybe not designed to catch every single thing that they could lob at us. But long enough to buy our leaders some time to be able to make an assessment and have options, if you will. The nation would have options. So i continue to believe that were on the right path. Thats part of a larger continuum of capabilities. And i dont think we ever want to give up on the idea that we have some capability in the Missile Defense tool kit. All right. I think well take one more question right here. Wait for the mike. Yeah. Im anna wilderman. For the first and only time in history, i attend...

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