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>> welcome everybody to this hearing of the subcommittee forces. enter hearing on the 2019 budget request. unfortunately as everybody knows we were interrupted by votes and were an hour behind us starting off. for the sake i'm not keeping you here all night i will submit my opening statement for the record. we will go straight to your opening statements. your entire statement will be accepted into the record so if you summarize it we will get to questions and answers and go to the classified section immediately after that. i know it takes a lot of time and energy to prepare for these things but it really helps us we really need to hear your thoughts. with that i recognized general raymond how do you pronounce

that. the ranking member cooper. i'm honored to appear before this committee and this time it's my first time being able to testify in front of you in my dual hat as space commander. i've leading and representing the air force. as i had stated previously i'm increasingly convinced that we are strategic. that is exactly what we are doing. the space capabilities are the foundation of the projection.

i high in conflict may begin in our domain. as a component i would be remiss if i didn't echo the words of my boss to say that our forces are fully prepared. as our national security strategy seats. the states. the united states considered unfettered access to and freedom to operate in to be a vital interest. as the reemergence of long-term strategic competition. space spaces of war fighting domain. this budget is aligned with the national defense strategy.

this budget marks a bold shift towards an increased focus in a confessed tested environment. we are enhancing our space situational awareness in our ability to command and control. we are shifting towards more defendable architectures. and finally we are enhancing our partnership with our ally partners in the commercial space industry. i think you for your support. i'm privileged to be here with my distinguished colleagues on the panel this afternoon and i look forward to your questions.

it was a great pleasure to host you and your committee and your members as a great honor for me to be here today. have very clear and critical mission for the nation. we are small and streamline. we have enjoyed success in all access. our research and development team has developed and matured the next destination. our acquisition teams are delivering the capabilities on time and within budget. 2017 for the ninth consecutive year we achieved a clean audit opinion.

we continued to deliver capabilities our fiscal year 2019 budget request will build on the successful history. with the threat environment that we face. we are focused on investments that will deliver. more resilience more capability and capacity and more speed. greater resilience continues to be our top priority. those are being refined and tested. and our people are being treated to use this. it must backstop on working.

the look rate from space. we require more capacity and capabilities in space they must be combined to deliver the information directly to the warfront. enabled by advances. machine learning and emerging technology. the plans to do that. the current and projected threat and environment does not change our mission it just makes it more challenging. the men and women are more than up to that challenge. thank you for your support and i look forward to your questions.

and distinguished members of the subcommittee. it's an honor to appear before you today the commander of the air force space command. in the strategic command. just as eric landon c they must be prepared to address any and all threats. space systems provide our joint force. strike swiftly and precisely. the potential for conflict to extend into space. our new national defense strategy the fort national

interest. addressing the challenges. today's potential adversaries have studied how the u.s. joint force operates designed to challenge our freedom of action across all domains. does potential adversaries view space as an area where they could weaken and the advantage and cause cascading impacts. they rely on the space-based capabilities. it's a key component of their strategy. with this budget. the department is making critical investments in capabilities necessary to protect and defend the space domain to ensure the mission

to compete the part and when in the went in the face of growing challenges. they are addressing the space threat. our aim remains to deliver the space effects to deliver a combat edge a nation in and a war fighter must have. we also recognize important need for the department to be organized and structured most effectively to deliver on our duty to protect our nation and our vital interests. they must accelerate and is accelerating its response to the changing dynamics of space. they have heard congress as concerns. they have already taken action. and look forward to completing the directive studies and changes that may be required. the partnership with congress

is and will remain absolutely critical to our success. an interest in this vital area. and it's advocacy to dissuade the question i look forward to your questions. thank you. i now recognize myself for questions. the space launch industry. like moving towards launch vehicles. i have gone on record in the past.

we'd be stupid not to go down that path. it saves us money and it will make sure that we do it smartly and it will be able to launch effectively. to capitalize on the industry. give president trump's recent endorsement of the establishment of independent space force. the president is very focused on outcomes he has a prioritized space. he has recognized the threats that have evolved in the pace at which they have evolved. any recognizes as a war fighting domain. he also is very interested in ensuring that the department is best organized and equipped to achieve vital missions in space. he's very interested in exploring to provide the

enhanced capabilities. they are leading to the organization. he is going to be recommending that best set of options. my one august and per the requirements. i agree the president cares about outcomes but i would like to ask you to go back and look at his exact words. you're right though. shanahan is charged with trying to design that. i was hoping you could show us a little bit of what it might look like before he does it.

if the air force really wanted that. between where we are now and the establishment's. some of the threats that we face. it was proposed just in hearing that the air force wanted to say that they got it. and put a significantly larger amount of money against that challenge. i don't expect you to have a number today. i would ask after you think about this for a while i can get back to me and let me know what you think that number might be. i would be happy to do that.

the profile is pretty high. an increase about $7 billion increase across. thank you very much general. in the chair will now recognize my friend and colleague. jim cooper for any questions he may have. >> i will defer questions for the closed session in view of the lightness of the hour. the chair i recognize the gentleman from colorado. i will have some questions for the closed hearing but i have a couple for right now. and i appreciate the conversations that we've have recently. the $350 million in unfunded priority. as you told me earlier there is a seven million dollars increase however we have to

draw the line somewhere. if you could have that extra three and $50 million what would we be able to get for that. and what are we losing by not having that. it's in the name of the priority. $7billion is a significant increase for space and a fat as i mentioned. a bold shift towards war fighting. i will be happy to come back to you and talk specifically about the items that are in that. they give congress options and priority order. to help accelerate some of the things we arty have in the program. we can continue that discussion i would also like to ask you about the increased

need for space war fighting training now that everybody is recognize that space is contested as a war fighting domain. to excel. we have made some pretty significant strides towards the end. we had implemented what we call space flags. and what i would suggest you as it's not just about space training is about multi-

domain training. and what i'm focusing on is making sure that we had space operators that are very smart in joint work fighting. it's a multi- domain strength. that will carry us to where we need to be in the future. in this budget we spent about a hundred 70 and wargames. think you. lastly for anyone of you. can we do a better job of partnering with the commercial sector. i don't want to monopolize this. i'm passionate about this as well. i think this will provide us significant advantage going forward its focus on building open standards.

you will see that reflected in our budget. either one of you it's always been about 95 percent of its budget in industry. we've always been a close partner with industry today. this is a real intense focus. who is leading the reform efforts. he is all about leveraging the commercial sector more effectively. thank you for the great work that you do. i yelled back. we had two members of our full committee that are with us.

they are sitting in on this hearing. thank you chairman. general raymond for the gear and 19 budgets. you've have comments as it started from this. therefore they publicly said they want to move fast. which is why section 16 and ten of the final conference agrees and requires that it operationalize existing best for breed situational capabilities. but not later than may 30.

with the capabilities by this required deadline. this has been ongoing. we had leverage them pretty heavily today. if the c2 system that we have today. they are leveraged pretty significantly. we have actually set up the capability and then will allow them into the epicenter. what we are trying to do is not just had one company be a winner and then have a whole bunch of losers. everybody can play and that's

what we are doing. i'm eager i'm eager to get all of the commercial industry wrapped around those standards. the commander of the joint force command. and talked about this. the capabilities were at a three. why are we not doing this quicker. take advantage for what we have now. we are taking advantage now. we will continue to take advantage of this. what the open standards. we are leveraging those today. as we look was some other gaps to have.

i yelled back. i do have some others for a closed session. just a couple right now. do they need to be more assertive about in security hearings. that is a key issue. thank you for raising it. an issue that the secretary had raised. looking at the implications of foreign ownership or investment. they are critical and essential.

mine interagency committee. accessing intelligence and other sources of information to make assessments on the relative risks. we are deafly deftly focus within the department on the ways in which adversaries can all too easily acquire capabilities or knowledge that they can use against us and we are actively involved in that process. i'm really glad to hear that. they are involved in the interagency process that makes conclusions on the transactions that are concerning and then rise.

we are pretty significant voter in the process. during the red flag event or some other kind of training event are they taking into account the possibility of partial loss of our satellite communications. we embed our space embedded our space operators into those exercises. we exercise that routinely. our all of your offices involved that falls under my responsibility. i will yield back. thank you mister chairman.

thank you mr. lawson. test launches of several effective missiles. able to destroy u.s. satellites. this development alters the strategic balance between great powers and is continued to involve in favor of china. public report indicates that it would have an number of u.s. satellites. disabling many of the capabilities we have come to rely on the united states military. in the classified setting. can you give us an overview of what the strategy is. i we really committing enough resources to this development

that could alter the strategic balance. the development of ai as one of the things that we are investing in. they have made a commitment to be the world leader in ai by 2030. i'm just concerned that we are falling behind and this is the place because of the strategic implications we clearly had to leave. it's become very contested. we've a strategy and one that we share with the department of defense. we have a vision. we took that vision and wrapped and concept around. we have trained and exercised for that.

there are several lines of effort that we are doing again if you are responsible for operations you have to have the ability to have domain awareness. you have to have defendable architectures. in this budget we made a significant shift towards having those architectures that we are able to defend. the question really is our those investments significant enough. who have really stuck their flag in the sand and said this is where we will be in 2020 and 2030. we saw the best space capabilities in the world. we have competitors with competitors that are moving very quick. and we we just ahead of that

threat and comfortable that the $7 billion that we've invested across this is to provide us the capabilities that we need as we see have at that threat. i will disagree with general raymond. plans and programs in place to defend against the weapons that you're weapon that you're talking about. i think we could give you some more detail. i also mentioned that we had been working for quite some time. and have made a really big progress. i think it is relevant governed in just to reiterate that the emphasis that we are going to prevail in all of those domains are critical.

the chairman yields back. mister kaufman for five minutes. i will follow-up with these questions in a classified setting as well. traditional evolved expendable launch vehicles. providers are contracted under a federal acquisition regulations new entrants with far 12. far 12 is more commercial way of doing business. could you explain the differences in procuring launch services and those dod have the same insight on cost when using both of these contracting methods. or is one more stringent than

the other. i will take that for the record. i'm not an acquisition background guy. i don't know the answer to your question. the hearing yesterday about space war fighting that the space war fighting must adapt to the threats that we face today and in the future. it is evident that the air force recognizes us however the new start program and overhead persistent infrared is not clear as the panelists put it is not clear how the alternative is a substantially different approach with the budget request that is not more resilient.

and it does not necessarily improve missions. they required i will be happy to talk to you more in the closed session about it. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california. i will pass and hopefully get to the classified asap. no for the republicans. we have next. the chair recognizes miss broke while.

thank you for a witnesses witnesses for being here today. there is an urgent need to reconstitute and replenish critical space capabilities to preserve probability. can you speak to some of the investments in the response of lunch that you would recommend that they pursue to fulfill this need. we have invested in this budget pretty significantly in small options. adding it's really important as you said. we did this in the early '90s when we first launched satellites. there is a large constellation of smaller satellites. and a lot of companies that were being developed as you look to new space and consolations that will be a significant side. we've invested that in this budget. the next question is important to me.

today nearly all of the satellites. these fixed sites also provide predictable locations from which adversaries could get close to discern u.s. capabilities. as the department of defense developing more launched sites. in support a rapid responsive and resilient launch capability. i'm a representative from guam. and i will say here that there has been inquiries about space capabilities in our territories from commercial investors very reset where these visits and they are very ambitious to begin operations. could any of you comment on this. there are commercial launch sites that are available today.

we have commercial sites. different space ports in new mexico and alaska into florida there are multiple space once. i think resiliency is important. one of the big things that has happened over the course of the last year is significant. that is in the move to autonomous ranges. every time space x doesn't launch. they do it autonomously. you have to have the ability to load up a rocket. we had raters implement tree. and a bunch of contractors working there. that's help to reduce of the range of structure a more resilient capability going forward.

are you aware of the inquiries that have been made to guam to look at our air force base in the guam international airport. is anyone aware of that they're going to do their own assessment as to what makes sense for their business where can i use the commercial launch providers. they were very interested in anderson air force base. i have no further questions. and i yelled back. we will slipped out on me and came back. mister chairman i did data

keep for a few more minutes. my questions really pertain to personnel and a lot of times we talk about space and we talk about the technological stuff. it's the people that matter. do you think of the proper number of servicemembers to do this do you think you are officially manned to peace time operations. and are we utilizing the skills of these servicemembers to capitalize on the attack. it gives me a chance to brag on them. they're doing spectacular work for our nation and our joint force. it has more admission mission than it does resources. i do think there is room for growth. the secretary of air force. they've asked me to conduct a study which we're doing as we speak.

i will report back to them the summer. do you think that you can shift with your present number would you have to have an increase to do that.

maxwell air force base, and you know keeping the civilian folks coming into that was part of my portfolio an i was amazed at how rapgdly things were moving and i just know that you've got that on steroids, and i just want to express my support to what you're doing and you need more resources to help from us please let us know. >> i appreciate your support. >> i yield back. >> yield back. we will now go into recess to recon screen in the skiff in about ten minutes. [silence]

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