needs or that socom needs. the other is the multiservice capability of the aircraft there is a lot of dynamic, expensive components that you could see using throughout the services. both are members mentioned the open architecture system. there is great commonality across the services. >> to colonel bentley's point, you talk about differences and requirements in space. every requirement is a range, a threshold. a minimum that you think you need or that you assess and your objective, your ultimate desire. within that spectrum, whether it's x speed to y speed, that's your trade space. and there's a lot of overlap in between there. to get to as close to the perfect shared solution, whether it be compromise, of course there will be. that's not a bad thing. we're in a fiscally constrained environment. anybody who doesn't believe i think is fooling themselves. we need shared technology, systems, aviation supply and logistics. that's a reality. it's not just a physical reality. it will be a battle field reality. we wi

not just for socom. so that combat power and the readiness that is driven by sustainability and survivability has to be up there on the priority list and we have to think through that carefully. i think after we get those five things, not just the top three, but all five, but i think then we should fold that into carefully considering better mission equipment. better hardware, better software, better mission architectures. those architectures be agile enough to keep up with the environment and to stay ahead of the environment. and said that earlier and i'll say it again. i think it is that important to stay ahead of the threats so we can maintain that comparative over match. the last 20 years of mission equipment, there has been a lot of great opportunities but it is littered with examples where we didn't live up to our expectations on open architecture systems. we've learned a lot. i think that learning is still going on in the s and t community and if you are in industry and not familiar with the missi

and then pulling up our rear guard is colonel phillips from socom. >> okay. good morning, everyone. would like to start out by saying, if you first get a call from somebody who says, hey, come sit on a panel in washington, dc before christmas with a lot of questions fielded from the audience, consider that call carefully. person that is made that call and think about are they on your christmas card list. so with that, i would like to say thanks for having us here. i would like to say thank you to my peers for taking this on together and thank you to c sis for having this. i think we should get something out of this conversation. it should be a two-way conversation and open it up because we should leave with a better shared understanding of the challenges ahead. i really think it is great to see the familiar faces in the office but if we don't leave with the shared understanding, we'll waste the opportunity. so why is it important to the special operations command. if we start by looking at the environment and look at the risks and the way we should collaborate to address those risks

that's a really great question for the socom commander. and i would encourage when you have the opportunity to ask about that. but i think what the secretary talked about, there is, as we talked about a little bit earlier, the islamic state isn't just limited to iraq and syria. and most of these violent extremists organizations aren't just limited to specific geographic areas. they do have influence, they do use virtual means to put out a toxic narrative, to try to influence people, to try to, you know, create disruption and conflict in other areas. i think we have to look at the threats and we can't limit ourselves to specific areas. and i think what the secretary is talking about is making sure that we have a process both in the military and across the broader government that allows us to look at this much more holistically and to bring the power of all of our capabilities. our diplomatic power, our military power, our intelligence community power. our informational power, our economic power to really address these issues. these aren't j

that's a really great question for the socom commander. i would encourage, when you have the opportunity, to ask him about that. i think what the secretary talked about is there is -- i mean come as we talked about earlier, the islamic state isn't just limited to iraq and syria. most of these violent extremist organizations are not just limited to specific geographic areas. they do have influenced and do use virtual means to put out a toxic narrative, to influence people, to try to create disruption and conflict in other areas. i think we have to look at these threats much more trans-regional and we can't limit ourselves to specific areas. i think what the secretary is talking about is making sure that we have a process, both in the military and across the broader government, that allows us to look at this much more holistically. and to bring the power of all of our capabilities, our diplomatic power, our military power, our intelligence community power, our informational power, or economic power, to really address these issues. these aren

i come to the centcom job having been the socom commander and we have a tendency to think a little more globally. i don't think that as a critique of my partners out there but we do have an approach that had soft forces around the world. i think the thing that is important to recognize for me as centcom commander is that i'm not in this by myself. the seams around centcom as you point out, libya, turkey, russia, india, sudan, horn of africa as just some examples. these are areas that have challenges as well. so we have to think transregional. we have to look at the threats that transcend across these. i think when we limit ourselves, we limit our thinking, limit operations, limit how we organize to bureaucratic boundaries, we limit our options to address the threats we have. i think there's been some very good work done, largely through the leadership of the chairman to develop a national military strategy that capitalizes on the transregional aspect of our threats. transregional, multi-functional, multi-domain aspects of all of our threats. it is going to begin to change how we think a

. >> so i can speak to some of the venues that socom uses. we have our own snt that we leench. we have broad area announcements. we have a lot of ideas coming out of that snt community. but we have also established another venue off of mcdill solved soft works. it's another opportunity to collaborate with the city and government and operators can come together. we absolutely looked at our own architecture we have in the aircraft today recently. we invited academia, industry, operators and we said come in, let's collaborate and talk about this. just to determine even with the aircraft that we're sustaining, how should we sustain those with architectures and how could that inform what we do for future vertical lift. >> all right. well we got to all the hands that i saw and we are at the end of our hour. i want to thank our audience coming and for asking great questions and being very attentive. keep your eyes peeled for future events on future vertical lift. we expect the series definitely continue into next year. and please join me in thanking our panel for a great prejudice. --