the defense industry. doesn't always indians and ok most at ms as all but it's ok as long as you maintain clear boundaries and remain at arm's length with industry not too close but not too far either because the market isn't that large form yet you also have to stay informed for example if there's a manufacturer where things didn't go well. but then you have to be clear about what's a sales event and when actual content is involved wall the first such as are difficult and shut and that's the core of the business relationship and you need to be able to have that exchange have to start about also telling us law which is a fish this. does this proximity between the german defense ministry the bundeswehr and german military contract just really only serve as a way to exchange information. or is a german government subsidizing the business deals of private industry. young come from the german left party says the sale of german combat training technology is also problematic for security reasons. i exported to t

defense industry, and from a defense side. i mean, you can't really counter a threat and the common threat in the region without continuing this military to military cooperation. >> i think his royal highness both spoke eloquently and with great passion about the incident. i think we shouldn't pre-judge what's going to happen, but if there were to be an embargo against the kingdom, which i feel will not happen, but if it were to happen, nature abhors a vacuum and you will find that the kingdom will find other avenues to buy weapons, whether it's the russians, whether it's the chinese, whether it's europeans, and it will not be in anybody's interests, certainly not in the interests of the kingdom of saudi arabia or the greater, wider arab world, and certainly not in the interests of the united states and it will not lead to a more stable and secure middle east. >> dr. sullivan, please. >> sometimes in international affairs, you have nothing but bad decisions. and you have to choose the least worst decision looking in the long r

put-- defense counsel. thank you for the opportunity to address the impact of charges which were preferred or referred but ultimately withdrawn or dismissed. these are based on my personal observations and do not necessarily reflect the views of the marine corps, the department of the navy, or the department of defense. sect-- increase in sex crimes charging within the military, many of which are later acquitted. in the marine corps in fiscal year 2018 out of a total of 45 contested general court- martial's, there were 12 complete acquittals and 23 partial acquittals. many partial acquittals or many partial convictions were for minor misconduct like violations or underaged-- like violates-- underage drinking. significant numbers ultimately have their charges dismissed. for example, dot wide in 2017, the last year for which we have a record, 776 sexual offenses were preferred and of these, 105 cases or 13.5% were dismissed. i've had the opportunity to check the staff and the number you have is 13.8% so the n

national defense. dod's budget, there is a discretionary part, a mandatory part of it and then emergency funding. sometimes we talk about broader national defense funding which includes funding the goes were atomic energy defense activities most of that is in the department of energy and other related activities across the federal budget. a lot of that goes to the fbi for work the fbi does to work and support dod. there outside of dod they are still supporting national defense. the things we hardly ever including defense spending but they are defense related to veterans benefits and services, that total is over $190 billion per year. it's one of the fastest growing areas of the federal budget. veterans benefits and services, if you look at the projections it's going to continue growing in the future. and then there are hidden things in the budget you don't see. one of them is the amortization of unfunded liabilities in the military retirement trust fund. a trust fund for pensions and a trust fund for r

there is a reason the is not need to try to beef up its and the defense capability is this to send in the baltics which is dealing with that and nato is about to establish an operational center for side but if ends that means that they will be not only able to defend themselves but only but also to have counter. measures against russia so to say to a tech russia themselves this is in the making and this will be ex think accelerated after this new experience that was due to brussels correspondent band break at let's get the reaction from russia now and i'm joined by deductive correspondent who is in moscow the man drug how are these accusations going down in russia. well the russian government is basically saying with nothing to do with it there was no attack that led to a geisha is our observer there talking about spy mania in the west and president putin has repeatedly rejected similar charges but have also spoken to think tankers and the intelligence community in moscow and someone told me that washington is eager to impose even tougher sanctions on russia by the end of november so

ministers had other things to talk about as well national defense budgets were on the agenda with the us still pushing for other members to up their military spending but the term was less strident than recent spending has gone up it is clear we are making progress this will be the fourth consecutive year of rai sink the fans spending but we still have a long way to go. nato is investing and he's keen to show the world what it's doing with that money soon it will hold its biggest military maneuvers since the end of the cold war in no way close to the russian border. area i spoke to w correspondent bantay hugo to who is in brussels where the nato defense ministers have been meeting and i started by asking him about the accusations against russia which haven't just been leveled by the netherlands' the old nato defense ministers tried to present a united front against the former cold war for russia here and especially the british had fresh allegations the british minister said russia is acting like a pariah state this is very strong language so rarely used to hear nato and so it shows th

us where we can put up, and put up in terms of defense. i have concerns about the efforts of russia to limit our defensive actions that a previous administration took on this issue. are there any discussions for which you are responsible that the united states will not agree to limiting our own missile defense programs? >> i can assure you i will stand up for what is the best interest of the united states people and our partners and allies. >> is there anything to add to this? >> i would agree with that statement. i was also present at the department of defense when president bush made the decision to withdraw, or exercise the withdrawal clause. we faced ballistic missile threats, we felt the need to move forward with an initial deployment of missile defenses. i do believe that missile defense not only defends the country, but it devalues the currency that others place on ballistic missiles as a threat. >> thank you mr. chairman. >>> thank you to both of our witnesses for your long service to our country, and the chance to explore these im

the german ministry of defense responded to our inquiry in writing. it said the commissioning of private service providers takes place outside the area of core military capabilities i.e. particularly in the air. area of logistical and technical support for this reason it does not fall under the scope of the constitutionally established parliamentary oversight. board the bundeswehr defines its core military mission in afghanistan as reconnaissance surveillance security evacuation and the training of local security forces. in the case of laundry and fuel services it's easy to distinguish between civilian and military duties. but what about when the contractor is a weapons manufacturer. house muff i.v. kman is a german based defense company that specializes in ahmed vehicles it's also well parade's repair facility in mazar e sharif. has been on what we're going to do and they have contracts with various companies there are hardly any military service staff here anymore i was in on my nose duties of all been handed over to private industry. i was part fro

of those 180 or so, 124 have never done business with the defense department. these are the kinds of innovative companies supplying commercial industry in a fast-paced market sector. we engage to help the united states air force. in that consortium where we committed $500 million for projects that might be done in the consortium. we put out a proposal that comes in and the average time between solicitation being put out and the contract award and contract being signed, and into the air force. likewise we are changing the ways, the federal agency, we have certain roles we do need and is much as a paypal account, they should be able to do business, and the hardest problems that require exceptional innovation and put out solicitation to take what amounts to white papers from anybody, small businesses primarily and invite a quick review, a couple weeks, and invite, and program managers, with the idea, a good idea and business plan or good technical solution that is worth supporting even with small amounts of money that have a 1-page contract, they walk out of the c

intercept defense capabilities. the department is investing $500 million in enhancing missile defense on the korean peninsula over the nextlili thr years. could you explain why these efforts are necessary and warranted in the current threat environment were face on the korean peninsula? >> senator, as the chairman and ranking member mentioned earlier, there still remains, despite all of the ongoing diplomatic efforts, which we all applaud, there still remains a significant conventional and strategic capability on behalf of the dprk. i believee that one of the contributors enabling efforts that supported us to get to this diplomatic point is with a strongnd deterrent and a integrated and advanced missile defense capability as part of that deterrent. >> what's your opinion on the prospects in the near term forea boost phase intercept systems? >> senator, i think that is a capability that we need. it's something that i believe is technologically feasible and we're appreciative of the congress' investment and direction

the defense network. we know where they are and we have -- i would just offer to everyone in the room we've got plans to address the vulnerabilities. then as a matter of fact this month we'll have the defense industrial base in and share with them probably three things that we're going to do -- one is -- maybe this is a public service announcement for those of you from industry, especially where you -- those of you in the i'll call it higher tiers, you know, cyber security is probably going to be what we call the, you know, fourth critical measurement. we've got, you know, quality, cost, schedule, but security is one of those measures that we need to hold people accountable for. i'm a really strong believer that the tier one and tier two leadership it shouldn't be that being secure comes with a big bill. it's like we want to pay extra for quality. we shouldn't pay extra for security. part of this is to recognize we're in a new world, and security is the standard. the expectation. it's not something above

in fact, led to their spending on defense. and put them in the difficulty they fell into in the early 1990s. i think having the space force recognized as a future addition to our defense or offense both diplomatically and militarily is a great tool as missile defense was in its infancy, and has been since. i do applaud the administrations boldness and doing that. i hope it's something that will be a meaningful tool and not a paper tiger. >> thank you for being here to testify. i want to go back to the nine of treaty. you both pointed out russia's violation. this is not in our interest to withdraw from the inf treaty. i don't think it helped to solve the russia problem. what other options are being considered to try and push the russians to comply with the inf treaty? are there things that you can talk about that have been looked at that we might not yet have tried? >> i can assure you we have used diplomatic means. we've used economic means. sumat can you discuss specifics of what the diplomatic and military means are? >> i wo

defense plays a piece of that. it is key that we stay committed to that strategy to lower levels of violence against women, men, children. >> many people are seeking asylum in this country as a result of that violence, correct? >> senator, that is correct. >> one last question about hezbollah in central america. as you know, i asked admiral thad about south, actions to hezbollah influence in south america countries in a categorized as though a as he put it, the d. team in the southern hemisphere given its criminal activities that support terrorist activities abroad, would you agree with him? >> iran speaks -- hezbollah's actually been raising explicitly across the world. >> and we had to do more to counter. >> senator blumenthal. senator mccaskill. thank you, mr. chairman. first of all commit thank you to you and your families for your service to this great nation. it's appreciated more than probably words can express. i am interested in general abrams. difficult or impossible to neutralize the threat of north kore

for your collaboration between defense and the defense community.dle.ve not been that, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs who has brought visionary energy to this effort, general paulson of the -- paul seleka. >> thank you. to all of my colleagues, this is been a team effort. thank you for your work in this space as well as the secretary of the air force. general dunford regrets that he cannot be here today. i will make a brief comment in his stead. the joint chiefs are unanimous in their support for the standup of a command for space to focus our activities and our development of doctrine tactics procedures and to discuss the authorities responsibilities and rules of engagement for conduct in space. for the conduct of defensive and offense of operations, to fight our consolation and support our war fighters in all domains and across all domains, to protect our ability to deploy civil commercial and military space to the benefit of the nation. yield any timell that is available to the balance of my colleagues. >> [applause] >> thank you for your

the department of defense is moving out. you. >> with that, the chair recognizes the principled activity directoryÃis director of national intelligence. a woman the president and i have come to respect so greatly for her role in the life of the nation for her steady counsel, join meet in thinking sue gordon for her great leadership and presence here today. >> mr. vice president, thank you for your steady leadership of the council and for your work to elevate american preeminence in space. i am absolutely delighted to be here representing women and men of the intelligence community and i am honored to be in the presence of such distinguished colleagues who share in this vital quest. and, to doug, mark, and kevin, to have your voices lent to this endeavor gives me great confidence. so thank you very much. the intelligence committee that is community applauds our efforts to protect our strategic domain. but it is a strategic advantage that our adversaries and competitors would seek to diminish. we assess that russia and china c

we in the department of defense are keenly aware that not just society but the department of defense needs that access to reliable power. and as it's needed it's also a vulnerability. secretary of defense released national defense strategy earlier this year, 20 team, everybody wants to see where we're going with power needs to be the national defense strategy. strategy. there's a couple key elements that are kind of the efforts of my stuff and also want to introduce by deputy secretary of defense leases in the audience, guiding as a politico with energy innovation in future. look at the national defense strategies come to think standup. the acknowledgment of the homeland is no longer a sanctuary and that we expect any type in the future and adversary with intent to disrupt our ability to conduct missions through either attacking or damaging our commercial power grid. we must be prepared for that. the second item is if you look across all the emerging technologies, obvious technologies in another way. not just to protect her grid but look at the technology we need to protect our natio

, defense policy and arms control for president george h.w. bush. in 1998, wilson resigned a new mexico cabinet post to enter the republican primary. she won a special election that fall and became the first u.s. veteran of the u.s. armed forces to serve in congress. while there, she didn't hesitate to vote independent of her party. particularly on social issues including requiring federal workers, worker health plans, to cover contraceptives and opposing an amendment to ban adoptions by gay parents in washington, d.c. secretary wilson who was nominated by president trump and sworn into office on may 16th of last year now oversees the air force's annual budget of more than $138 billion. speaking today, she will talk about the future of american r airpower in the 21st century. secretary wilson will fill us in on what it will take to get the air force that the united states currently has, to the air force that she believes the united states is going to need over the next decade. please give a warm press club welcome to the 24th secretary of the

if you-- for the last time we did this calculation, if you combined senior defense counsel and defense counsel's experience, their combined average experience was 14 months. they have no training in investigation. the first case that they may receive assigned to them is -- maybe it will be a sex offense and it may be a life sex offense. they have no subpoena power, which is also very common in the federal system so that they can obtain investigative materials by way of subpoena, and using a skilled and trained investigator with an appropriate investigative tools and a data base. >> okay. go ahead. >> i wonder if i could ask you a -- i'd like to ask you to fly up 50,000 feet and look down on the landscape. you spent years in the criminal justice system. as one of the challenges is that the function of military justice system is distinctly different than the criminal justice system in that we understand that it has the promotion of order, good order of discipline and it has a disciplinary purpose for the force itself. that has been the explanation given as to why the military does not wa

we cannot simply play defense. no sport in the world, competitive sport in the world can just lay defense and win. this is not an area we want to be second-place in. make her thatould first we are going to need some it conceptould call of how we are going to conduct ourselves in space, all of us, internationally. then we will have to recognize if nations are not willing to live by those rules such as we have seen on this planet -- here below, we will have to have the ability to defend and the ability to do offense. he president has been clear wants to organize accordingly. what we will do is put together a command that can compete in space on whatever level and adversary wants to compete, chooses to compete, and then we will ensure we go to congress with how we believe how we can best organize not for bureaucracy but for the capabilities of president and vice president rightly so we don't surrender what we do in space using space for commerce or navigation or anything else. it is critical to the economy, our way of

the smiles and friendly handshakes at the start of nato summit of defense ministers were overshadowedby the news of a possible cyber attack by russian agents in the netherlands. nato allies expressed their solidarity with the decision by the dutch and the british governments to call out russia on its plate and attempt to undermine international law and international institutions dutch authorities announced today they had foiled a cyber attack on the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the dutch defense ministry said it expelled for russian nationals after they were caught spying at the chemical weapons watchdog but the defense ministers had other things to talk about as well national defense budgets were on the agenda with the us still pushing for other members to up their military spending but the term was less strident than recently as spending has gone up it is clear we are making progress this will be the fourth consecutive year of rising the fans spending but we still have a long way to go nato is investing and he's keen to show the world what it's doing with tha

i'm pleased to introduce deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan, our 33rd deputy defense secretary. secretary shanahan most recently served as senior vice president of supply chain and operations at bowing where he spent over three decades. he holds multiple advanced degrees from m.i.t. at boeing he specialized in developing large weapon systems and bringing them to market. as a deputy defense secretary, he is the d.o.d. coo. we're pleased to have him here today. secretary shanahan, over to you. >> good morning. if it's okay, i'm going have short remarks so we can spend our time doing q & a. that sound good? all right. and, john, thank you for having me here this morning. we have a couple of just tops i would like to hit but i think the assignment i was given is make sure we're able to write lots of good stories. so that's my intent. why did you say we had to leave early? yeah. no, we've got all the time this morning. so i do appreciate having this opportunity to spend time with you this morning. i'm hoping in the q and a session we can kind of do the, you know, behind the scenes o

the defense finally gets the hint that they need to stop this guy. a red card giving like a penalty which phantom misses but still let six thrash nuremberg six nil one less than don't the manager less than two weeks ago. another disastrous dressing down for me and new comers new and back but it's only the season's second highest. when freiburg are in thirteenth place ahead of leverkusen in fourteen that means freiburg performed above expectations and leverkusen far below them. in freiburg despite playing more actively leverkusen didn't manage to turn the tide. in the end you could even say labor couzin were lucky to take away a point for them it feels like a loss while freiburg happy to share the spoils. funny coincidence about the match between yuli and now goes mans hoffenheim and his frankfurt both clubs have equal points and the exact same goal difference it was hoffenheim who deserved to take the lead after ridiculous the close chances that hit the woodwork but as you might have guessed things unfolded differently a plucky lot from croatian worl

area i spoke to the correspondent bantay you get who is in brussels where the nato defense ministers have been meeting and i started by asking him about the accusations against russia which have been just being leveled by the netherlands'. though all nato defense ministers tried to present a united front against the former cold war for russia and especially the british had fresh allegations the british minister said russia is acting like a pariah state this is very strong language rarely used here at nato and so it shows that there is anger and frustration among the nato members with russia because these allegations are not new this is a string of actions russia that is outraging the nato allies and they also the british also say that russia is working with international hecho organizations and this is an attempt to undermine western democracies and international organizations so with the accusations and counter-accusations flying around it feels like there's not much room for dialogue how do you see this playing out. but the diplomatic relations between russia and the nato members h

ministers had other things to talk about as well national defense budgets were on the agenda with the us still pushing for other members to up their military spending but the time was less strident than recent and spending has gone up it is clear we are making progress this will be the fourth consecutive year of rising the fans spending but we still have a long way to go all nato is investing and he's keen to show the world what it's doing with that money soon it will hold its biggest military maneuvers since the end of the cold war in no way close to the russian border have. strayed to brussels that are where we're joined into because from then to banter we get a welcome back so we have a series of allegations today against russia coming on the same day as the nato defense ministers meet there what do you make of the timing. the meeting today at the nato headquarters here in brussels was certainly a good opportunity to close ranks with the united states for the nato members here in europe and also to show a united front against a common enemy namely russia the old code a world war fo

>> it is a homeland defense. in this particular hurricane effort we focused on ability to respond to installation commanders. they are specific to have the authority to make decisions on what they will do within their command. i noticed you did not mention any ships. ships thatjust know were nearby to respond? ships wereence, the a particularly important part of our ability to surround the storm. in this particular case just because of the geography. after air force because of the way the geography is laid out. we are actually coming from the south, even though we are not actually having to come from the sea, per se. we have the ability to surround the storm and get capability from all hundred 60 degrees without necessarily using ships to do that. >> how many military personnel ended up evacuating? >> i cannot give you a number. many of those installations are not actually directly into the path. assets thatve any are still helping with florence? >> principally, that is now a recovery effort. we are less involved

from the beginning, van dyke has maintained he acted in self-defense. mayor rahm emanuel and city attorneys fought to keep the video from becoming public, but just over a year later, a judge ordered the video be released. van dyke was charged with first-degree murder the same day. >> it is graphic. it is violent. it is chilling. >> reporter: van dyke's defense argues he feared for his life when he opened fire. >> this is not a murder case. despite what you heard in the courtroom. >> i would definitely call it excessive force based on the dash cam video. mr. mcdonald is walking away from the officer and posed no immediate threat. best practices for using deadly force is as a last resort. >> reporter: the video of mcdonald's death sparked months-long protests in chicago and across the country. >> 16 shots. >> the sooner you can release information, the better for the community, and because there was such a delay, for whatever reason, the delay really just builds more distrust of law om tensions high, chicago's top brass was on edge. >> jason van dyke will

defense system that india has poured for example china got so. with sanctions over its purchase and so now india is doing the same and it's not simply doing the same india is doing the same a threat after a warning from the pentagon that indeed the option of sanctions is on the table and it will be up to the u.s. president donald trump to decide whether or not to you know penalize. the art was ition so really now the next of the bull is it is interesting because it's russia in the making business but essentially now with the most anticipated reaction is not from the geopolitical rivals india could well at least potentially use this system against but from across the atlantic from washington d.c. as they're usually so unhappy when anybody buys russia's weapons. to use live at this presidential summit in new delhi thank you. the u.s. congress has approved the creation of a sixty billion dollar investment agency to fund projects in developing countries it all sounds great but it has led some to question what president donald trump's top priority is

but the defense was ready to blow off steam.he mottas and their entourage settled in at a local bar several miles from the courthouse. the jury would be out for awhile, they thought so they feasted and toasted one another. >> cheers. >> here, here. >> reporter: then as the sound system began to play the opening chords of the rolling stones song "sympathy for the devil," bob motta said something he wanted everyone in the bar to >> here's my song and this is apropos. "sympathy for the devil," mother [ bleep ]. >> you went out for drinks and we were there for that. "sympathy for the devil" comes on the sound system and you say -- hey, that's the -- that's our theme song here. that's what we're going for. that's what you wanted. sympathy for the devil. >> when i looked at the case that the state presented it was pretty obvious to me they saw her sleeping client as the devil. so, yeah, i thought it was apropos. i thought it was appropriate. not because i think he's the devil. because they sure did. the state absolutely thought he >>

i'm an independent defense journalist. i have seen a fair amount of what you do while covering hurricanes for "people" magazine, and i'm listening to what you're saying and the message i get from when i do my coverage and listening to you is you're very busy and getting busier. can you talk a little bit about any challenges you might have with manpower or recruiting? >> sure. the coast guard is about a little less than 42,000 active duty men and women in uniform, and we have a reserve force, a reserve component that's about 6200. we're authorized at 7,000. one area that concerns me is the reserve component, the numbers. one of the things i need to focus on in the remaining portion of pie 4-year tour is growing the reservists. at one point, 10, 15 years ago, we had authorization to go to 10,000. when you look at the battle rhythm of these atlantic basin hurricanes, and it's storms, we have to c-130 flying out looking at the region out there in the cnmis here for the recent supertyphoon that just went through the region. we'

of the federation of the german security and defense industry. our first priority is german arms exports which keeps us busy and will do so in the future. issues with the previous government and we expect to have them with the next while. other countries where companies operate either alone or as part of joint ventures have other rules i can't tell from here whether they exploit that. is also president of the federation he declined several invitations to take part in an interview for this report. a presentation on the strategic targets of the arms of munitions division the thinking behind the overseas activities one stated goal is to free the company from german export regulations and ensure profitability the two key locations are italy. projected to reach the one hundred million euro mark in the medium term and south africa. sales to two hundred fifty million euros. toward the business of death is growing and the fact that it's not happening here at the wars are taking place somewhere else does not make it any better everyone on this planet has

of defense points.xercise to start, the commanding general arrives for a last-minute inspection of the terrain where the mock combat will take place. meanwhile, the men are given a briefing, and within minutes on the nearby hill, platoon officers receive instruction. >> let's go over the main points once more. lieutenant payne, your first platoon choco zone of action is zone ofirst platoon's action is limited on the right, that row of trees and on the left by that scar on the hill. lieutenant willy, your second zone of action is limited on the right by the scar on the hill, and by left by that lone tree. your third platoon will be in reserve and will be prepared for deployment in either zone of assault platoon. lieutenant welch, your fourth platoon fire plan has been approved and ready for action. keep that mortar fire ready to go upon request. now, are there any questions? >> sir, i don't like the looks of those woods on my left. think i could get some mortar fire down there? >> you have mortar fire. l

national defense budgets were on the agenda, with the u.s. still pushing for over -- other members to up their military spending. >> is clear we are making progress. this will be the fourth consecutive year of rising defense spending. but we still have a long way to go. >> nato is invested and is keen to show the world what it is doing with that money. send will hold its biggest military maneuvers since the end of the cold war. in norway, close to the russian border. phil: i ask our correspondent about the timing of these allegations coming on the same day as nato defense ministers were meeting. >> the meeting today at nato headquarters here in brussels was certainly a good opportunity to close ranks with the united states for the nato members in europe, and also to show the united front against a common enemy, namely russia. so the timing is very good for the west to show that russia systematically undermines the western democracy with its attacks, and also international institutions. cyber attacks and cyber defense was already high on the n

looking at the overall defense budget, when we talk about defense normally we talk about

that is what we do for the defense intelligence agency. but we all also provide device -- advice to those on the hill. the core mission set, as i said before it is foundational intelligence foreign military operational environment. that's kind of where we got our start. that has expanded over time. it has expanded in complexes late -- complexity as well. when i talk about the core things we do, give you several perennial things we focus on when we talk about that core. this is all nested within those core functions. we work a targeting database. we worked targets. we work until mission data. if you are in a f 35 and you're looking for all the data that goes inside the feed that, from electronic warfare standpoint. we provide the basis for that. we get involved in acquisitions . we track acquisitions closely. strategic warnings, i guess at the lustily want to happen is secretary of defense be surprised. strategic warning in context what is happening. what is happening with technology development. so the secretary of the nation for that matt

but it certainly wasn't with national defense in mind. in a developing the recap to face over the next ten years. by the way, secretary, ien couldn't agree more. i'm not worry ied about where w are today. i have full faith in you guys today. i'm worried about what china has said publicly about china 2025. 25 and beyond, i'm really concerned about. that leads to this question. he had the obama's oi point tee of the advisory board and said that bringing new technology in the force is the biggest concern. if there was one variable to solve for, it would be speed. they don't have the same constraints that we do. but the requirement process we have is now the single greatest barrier to rapid tech lolg call advancement. by advancement he means not development, but deployment. so sir, when we look at both recapping and improving our readiness today, where are we in terms of working with the industrial base and the supply chain that you have inherited to sort of get. at thi this is the number one threat we have right now. >> senator, i i'm glad y