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Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the department of defense acquisition Reform Efforts and we welcome our witnesses, ellen lord undersecretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics. Mark esper, secretary the army. Heather wilson, secretary the air force and james geurts assistant secretary of the navy for acquisition, technology, and logistics acquisition reform is one of the most important and frustrating topics committee addresses. Four years we have been warned that america is losing its technological advantage. I hope you have seen the work on the top...

Can we do this better the biggest thing that i iran into. When i was engaging in the larger thinking community and larger academic trinity is this challenge of getting past iran. That we can ironically to go to understand as well as the idea that iran is irrational. What i consider the mad problem is that iran is too crazy and both of these ideas really handicap us. A train and been able to understand what iran is thinking about and how it looks at the us and formulates its foreign policies. Thats the heart of what i am trying to do in this monogram is take the face off that confusion and say ...

Gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming to the American Enterprise institute. Im fred kagan, the direct of the critical project here at aei. And if it is my great honor and privilege to lead this panel, discussing report which is just been released by my colleagues, matt mcinnis, the future of irans security policy, Available Online at aei. Org and where these beautiful copies as well if anyone would like one of those. We have a Magnificent Panel today. We are thrilled to have Lieutenant General tom trask, Vice Commander of headquarters u. S. Special Operations Command in washington, d. C. , a...

And weve only just begun as a community to grapple with a world in which even nonstate actors will be able to get anything the internet. Second, the sizes of battlefields will expand. The proliferation of precision munitions and the isr network that supports employment are increasing the effective range of military units. Our adversaries will not only be able to get what they can see but also strike u. S. Forces actually over longer and longer distances. Third, concealing military forces will become more difficult. More actors are developing sophisticated capabilities designed to find and targ...

We are getting the organization used to a way of thinking. Its focusing on the security component and the effectiveness of that, defining that mission in a very clear way and looking to see what we are learns as we are studying it. Weve actually learned quite a bit already about system readiness both in the workforce as well as in the technology and its leading to things that we have to do to improve that on both scores, also beginning to point the way we are going to effect iively measure performan. I see this as a very valuable partnership even recognizing that they have to be independent, b...