dod was original going to ask for a hard 11. i think were going to be something in three -- 4% increased range which would be 30 billion higher than the fy 23. this is not me based on sandy budget numbers. no one in the has given me any intel. i'm reading the tea leaves and secretary at a public meeting last week talked the 24 budget will be higher than the 23 actual. we are not going to know until the numbers are officially released on or around march 9. we have these higher levels on the last two years under the secretary's leadership but if we are going to increase the naval combatants any programs essential to expeditionary warfare to compete with china and the other threats out there, we've got to have higher budgets. now it congress will do with that request this year as not entirely clear this in the process but even that tells you to know for certain how the debt ceiling the poplin turn event on discretionary will play out probably are smoking something that is legal in california colorado barbie frankly don't know. i've

and congress added funds prepared 816 billion for fy23 and dod originally was going to ask for 811 in 24. i think we're going to need something in the 3 to 4% increase range which would be about 30 billion higher than the fy23 actuals. no one in the department has given me intel, but i'm reading the tea leaves and secretary mccord talked about the 24 budget would be higher than the 23 actuals. we are not going to know until the numbers are officially released on or around march 9th, but we know the higher levels, not only the last two years under the secretary's leadership, but if we're going to increase naval combatants and programs expeditionary warfare to compete with china and the other threats out there, we've got to have higher budgets. what congress will do with that request this year is not entirely clear this early in the process. anyone that tells you they know for certain how the debt ceiling, the funding level for ukraine, and the top lines for defense and domestic discretionary will play out probably are smoking something that's legal in california and colorado. we francl

as we see, the dod has up to two years to determine that threat scenario. if we are looking at the scenario two years down the road and whatever is happening at that time in europe and we are accelerating the replenishing of our munitions stockpile, to be there is a mismatch. giving two years to determine what the needs, threats are. we are spending to build stockpiles that may be mismatch from two years from now it doesn't seem to be a good policy. can you tell us based on our requirements our munitions and ground forces in europe, how do we make sure we make the right determination about what to build today so we don't have a mismatch. we are talking about weapons magazines being depleted today. but if were building weapons, how do we correct that mismatch? dr. kaul: we've made significant investments because of the money that congress has generously given us and the authority to spend it over longer periods of time. it needs addressing supply chain bottlenecks and creating a longer term demand so that industries are actually responsive. our defense indus

open is met by these criteria outlined by dod. in the national defense strategy recognizes first that the prc is pursuing holistic strategies that employ various forms of coercion, malign behavior, and aggression to achieve their objectives and it weaken the foundation of a stable and open international system. it goes on to say, the most comprehensive and a serious challenge to u.s. national security is the prc's coercive and increasingly aggressive endeavor to refashion the indopacific region and international system to fit it authoritarian preference. in your view, using the definition sec. blinken gives, the goals we have and the national security strategy of free, prosperous, and secure. then, compare those to the prc actions we see today that are outlined in the national defense strategy. is it the endo pacific --indopacific free open today? early on the writers of the national security strategy must have chosen every single word very carefully. in choosing the word promote, instead of, say, insure, or, defend, i think the a

dod an outfit in an organization where our records branch with us. we have of an approach for my counterparts don't have that kind of close relationship. i think the end result is frustration at getting at the records. knowing what to prioritize to put them in for declassification for it i can go on and on so i will stop here and let adam or john. >> how you think about prioritize? >> i like two things have been brought up this morning to things done when it's been brought up over and over responding. one of the biggest challenges we have we urged in with documents of all the executive agencies and foreign policies. their technology does not speak to each other. it is something obviously it's a funding issue. you get that in place agency speak to each other will see much better efficiency and more speed in terms of declassification of the documents have incorporated in the series. and we got it. if you're someone sitting at a desk at the cia or state department someone puts on your desk a highly sensitive historical documents you are going to be lean

dod is about half of that.it comes to the 2022 figures, what do we see as far as spending and what were the main issues? guest: in 2022, one of the things that was not expected was the beginning of the fiscal year russian invasion of ukraine and all the supplemental appropriation that was enacted to help shore up the ukrainian military and provide them with additional arms so they could offend themselves. but, a lot of other issues going on within the defense budget, dod is ramping up its spending on research and development to invest in new types of technologies and capabilities that will one day lead to new types of weapons systems that could be incorporated into our force to modernize or force. even right now, this department is engaged in a whole host of modern issues to replace equipment and inventory, much of which is 50 years old or older in some cases. equipment that has to be replaced, that they have had these long-term, recapitalization programs and process. we like to think of that as a modernization

, so several days ago now, and then it was up to dod to determine where and when was a safe location to do this. as we've reported over the course of the past several days, dod officials recommended against shooting it down over the continental united states because of the risk to people and places. and we had theorized and hypothesized that the place to do it is once it's out over the water, and that is exactly what dod did. they waited until it had blown out over the water, following the prevailing winds across much of the country, from montana, down across the middle of the country, north carolina as we tracked it with all people looking for the balloon, and then it was taken down just off the coast of south carolina. the fda putting in place the temporary flight restriction at the request of dod and then the interception by fighter jets in the video that we're looking at essentially right now of the downing of the balloon. >> it all makes perfect sense, doesn't it? oren, so, then, also, the retrieval of this intelligence debris, et cetera, is anything more being said about how th

he's often talked about the challengesou of not having predictable, reliable funding creates for dod. so do you sharete that concern? and if so, what can we do about it? >> i asked him point-blank i said what are the top three things we need to do? he said, first, no continuing resolutions, no sequestration. that kind of surprised me a little bit but obviously it's hard to plan operating on a continuing resolution. this most recent controversial omnibus as you know plus-up the administration appropriation request for the department of defense by $45 billion. so clearly there's a bipartisan consensus in congress that the administration is not at least in its budget request acknowledging the nature of the threats are the needs that we have.ti but at the same time now we have a divided congress and white house, and i think it's going to be a real heavy lift to get back to what i would call regular order on the appropriations process. that . that terrible think about an omnibus appropriation bill is there are basically fourn people who decide what that top line is, if you d decide who the

for one thing i'm not a dod historian. i've been on quite a few documentaries and even though i told them it never translates into any of that name i'm often called the pentagon historian but in actuality, i suppose i could be called a historian to the office of the secretary of defense. each military service program has historian and those programs are much larger than mine. the joint chiefs of staff, they have the history office. the coast guard, each of the combatant command and i say all this because it speaks to kind of the, in some respects lack of cohesion among what we do because each program mission varies somewhat. and some of that is resource, it wouldn't be the government if you didn't talk about processes and resources but my office doesn't really do documents per se. like the state department history office. we produce book series as the name says it all. office of the secretary of defense and these books range from six to 800 pages and yes they focus on secretary of defense but in the larger context the nati

the full trip announcement with details will be forthcoming in posted to the dod web site and with that i'll be happy to take your questions. going back to the boland. does the pentagon knows that the balloon came from china it was launched from china and if so where and then the dod said there've been three other boland incidents during a previous demonstration and one other incident during this administration. can you tell us a little bit about how you were able to discern these balloons were the same and they were chinese spy balloons? >> so let me address your second question first. again i'm not able to go into the intelligence it is you highlight we are aware that there have been four previous balloons that have gone over u.s. territory. this is what we assessed as part of the larger chinese surveillance balloon program. you've heard us talk in the past about the fact that this is a program that's been operating for several years. what we do know is that in some cases were some of these balloons previously had not been identified subsequent analysis and intelligence analysis that

what is the dod's general message about the future with the goal resonance of the chinese will in?> more broadly speaking we have highlighted the fact that china is facing a challenge and we do not see conflict with china. we recognize we are in competition with china and we would want to indo pacific in the whole world to be secure, peaceful, stable operating under international rules based order where sovereignty is protected and people can go about their lives in a way that we would all hope in a peaceful world. we will continue to work with allies and partners and continue to share permission and i'll just leave it at that. let me go to the back of the room here. >> going back to emergency response in turkey you mentioned the george w. bush and european commander prepositioning assets to support recovery assets. has there have been additional support that of arrive today? >> i have provided you in terms of the department of defense support and usaid i would refer you to a. s. i.d. for information on that front. i don't have anything else to provide other than we remain ready an

safety and security of the american people that is what is most important to me so everybody on the dodeam. weer will drill until we learn as much as we can about what the's objects are and why they are operating inn the spaces we will air on the side of caution but there is a lot to be learned going forward. >> thank you this is all the time we have for today concludes our press conference. thank you.

there are 800,000 dod employees and department of defense. frankly we are becoming a health care system and pension system that makes a bit of ammunition. we have to look at ways to not cut but provide more equipment to the front line. an example is the f-35. there is not a cell phone that is 17 years old. china is reproducing much faster, technology is changing. we need to change also to make sure that our equipment is on the front line, faster, more efficient. because the world we face is different than what it was just a few years ago. >> will you do anything different this time around in congress? >> it seems like there is always some issue of the day. this is a legislative process. a legislative process is getting 218 votes on the republican side and working with the members, and my philosophy is always been like rowing a boat. a boat has two wars. i will admit i am the right oar, but there is a left oar. if you just use the right you were going in circles. we are going in circles but we are not addressing the problems, border, spending.

the presidential drawdown is the 31st such drawdown of equipment from dod inventories for ukraine. the u.s. has committed $32 billion in security assistance ukraine since 2014, and $29.3 billion since russia's unprovoked and illegal invasion nearly one year ago this month. today's announcement includes critical air defense capabilities to help ukraine defend its people as well as armored infantry vehicles and more equipment ukraine is using so effectively, including javelin antitank missiles, artillery ammunition, and conventional and long-range rockets. additional information on the security packet can be found on defense.gov. in regards to our announcement last night regarding the high altitude surveillance balloon, i will not have much new information to provide other than to say the north american aerospace defense demand continues to monitor it closely. we will not get into specifics in regards to the exact location. i can tell you the balloon continues to move eastward and is over the center of the continental united states. we assess the balloon does not present a military o

do you have any connection with dod on it? what are the protocols? acting admstor nolen: thank you, senator question. i will just delete it from my own time. typically as a pilot, you would report back to air traffic control. if it is something they already know about, i have been flying where i have been advised that there is a high-altitude balloon. so there are processes in place to report. and then we have it, as i said earlier, an embedded team in norad in the department of defense, tsa and et cetera. senator: as far as you know, those protocols are followed? acting admstor nolen: the protocols for reporting? depends. i'm going to see from my own personal experience, everybody reports that they saw a balloon, the answer is probably no, thank you. senator: in 2021, in a report, it was stated that the faa struggles to carry out its role to integrate new technologies and capabilities across various offices within the agency . integrating new technologies and certification will be a priority as i work on the faa reauthorization. how is the faa addre

it is the dod budget. that is their one lever of control. and they all know that. not in the news during all those like i'm angry they approved a $750 billion dod budget and now one congressional representative said, hey, you want 750 billion? you just left 80 in afghanistan. how do take that off the top and tell you, you know, three names that are not right. it is common sense. and the reason they don't do is because if i congressman stuart scheller from the second district of ohio as a representative votes no on the 700 billion that everyone's going to be like he hates veterans. i think he's anti-military. right. and no one will. you'll read the headline. so they're so scared in terms of self-preservation that they don't do what we as the american people need them to do. it's the same. all the promises the current attorney general and were made to matt and now are not following through because there's risk i just got into an argument with a congressman in vegas a popular one i won't drop his name but i said the thing like you you mentioned my name and then when i

like, a dod as an ombudsman. written in the executive order, i think would be a highly effective mechanism. because, when you're in the government, sadly you have to think in terms of processes, mechanisms. because that's just the way it works. >> we'll leave this program here. you can watch it in its entirety on our website, c-span.org. >>

we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman's hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in the republic of korea and philippines. the secretary and his korean counterpart reaffirmed measures to extend deterrence. >> we will give you big headlines here while they get organized. secretary of state tony blinken postponing his trip to china this weekend because of the spy balloon over the u.s. it was to be the first trip to china by a secretary of state in six years. a senior official telling nbc news president biden decided two days ago not to shoot the balloon down because it might have injured people and property on the ground

we'll also aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we'll look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume back in the press briefing room in middle-to-late may. so, again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman's hall as our temporary briefing home. in other news secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in the republic of korea and the philippines. the secretary and his korean counterpart jointly reaffirmed measures to enhance extended deterrence on the korean peninsula. the two leaders additionally pledge to closele regarding u.s. strategic assets in the future as well as further expand and bolster the level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines secretary austin had his first in-person meeting with his counterpart secretary gavez, and reiterated that the u.s. commitment to phillipine securi

throughout the 20 20's, dod has a lot of expensive bills to pay to replace a lot of critical equipment and inventory. host: when it comes to 2023, legislatively we saw something called the national defense authorization act. remind our viewers what that is. guest: every year, two bills we get for defense, one is an authorization bill, the other is an appropriations bill. ideally you want both. in the past years we have gotten both every year. the nda is a policy bill. it sets rules, policy, limits, it has reporting requirements. and it implies a certain level of funding. the ndaa this not provide funding. only an appropriations bill can provide funding. once you pass the ndaa, a lot of people say, they passed in the defense budget. not quite. you still need the appropriations bill. the appropriations bill usually come second. it doesn't have to. the appropriations bill specifies how much money the department gets and how it is going to be used. how much money goes for each and every line item in the budget. you always need an appropriations bill each year. an authorization bill is grea

security of the american people, that is the thing that is most important to me and to everybody on the dodeam and other agencies so we will drill until we learn as much as we can about what these objects are and why they were operating in those spaces. you always air on the side of caution -- we will always err on the side of caution but there is a lot to be learned. >> that is all the time to be had today. this concludes our present briefing -- press briefing. thank you. >> here is a look at our live coverage today on c-span. at 11 a.m. eastern, nikki haley x offer 2024 presidential campaign. the formerid u.n. ambassador and former governor of south carolina will hold a rally in charleston, south carolina and at 3 p.m., the congressional house budget -- cbo director will outline the report and take questions. you can watch these affects live on c-span now, our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. ♪ >> since 1979, in partnership with the cable industry, c-span has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress, from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings, part

security of the american people, that's the thing that's most important to me and to everybody on the dodteam at about the interagency. so we're going to continue to drill until we learn as much as we can about what these objects are and whether operating in the spaces. we will always err on the side of caution, but again there's a lot to be learned going forward. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, that is all the time we have for today. this includes our presser. thank >> there are almost a new members in the 100 and 18th congress, and this includes first-generation americans and another -- second generation americans and a number of women in my -- minorities. he interviewed them on the ferry drive -- variety of subjects. greg glassman, aaron hausman, cindy can longer douse, caracalla, she bashevis mccormick, and eli crane. watch the new members online at c-span.org. we order your copy of the congressional directory for the 100 and 18th congress. it is your access to the federal government with bio and contact information for every house and senate member, important informatio

and security of the american people is the thing that is most important to me and everybody on the dod team. we are going to continue to drill until we learn as much as we can about what these objects are and why they were operating in those spaces. we will always here -- air on the side of caution. there's a lot to be learned going forward. mr. ryder: that is all the time we have for today. this concludes our press briefing, thank you. announcer: on c-span's "washington journal", we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and will discuss policy issues that impact you. join in with your calls, texts, coming up, discuss the judicial confirmation process on the supreme court. carry-on health institute talks about a new report on the effectiveness of covid lockdown and other pandemic restrictions, watch washington journal at 7:00 it eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. our hour-long interview program with journalists and historians. on thursday, northeastern university's margeturnham scares her burke which exhibit -- prov

security of the american people, that's the thing that's most important to me and to everybody on the dodteam at about the interagency. so we're going to continue to drill until we learn as much as we can about what these objects are and whether operating in the spaces. we will always err on the side of caution, but again there's a lot to be learned going forward. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, that is all the time >> c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the news of the day. and we discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, keyhole sitting fellow at the georgia became a center talks about the key processes of the presidential process. and then a historian joins us with his books on the likes of abraham lincoln's -- lincoln and what markets government today. watched washington journal live on c-span or c-span now, our mobile video app. during the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text or tweets. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. there are funded by these television companies and more, incl

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there are industrial base concerns that the dod is wrestling with. that's probably the more important element, china is taking away from ukraine that invasions are more difficult than you anticipate. especially once you get on the ground. china had maybe not adequately incorporated thinking in terms of how the ground war goes on taiwan. they have been focused entirely on how to get to the troops there, not what did they do once they get there. a couple of things that the u.s. could take from ukraine, looking at the effective approach is that ukraine has used to to defend itself, how do you do -- equip taiwan to have the same synchronization of operations. they have done so well, tell to their own technology to do. how can you equip taiwan to similarly do that. it's going to be hard for the u.s. to impose its own battle network on taiwan. taiwan could build up to the capability to do it itself as much as ukraine did. you could equip taiwan with the same type of drone technology that ukraine has assembled on its own, with some u.s. help. there's an opp

security of the american people, that's the thing that's most important to me and to everybody on the dodteam at about the interagency. so we're going to continue to drill until we learn as much as we can about what these objects are and whether operating in the spaces. we will always err on the side of caution, but again there's a lot to be learned going forward. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, that is all the time we have for today. this includes our presser. thank you. -- concludes. >> the pentagon says after belgian secretary austin will make additional stops in estonia and germany to visit local leaders and meet with u.s. and allied service members. >> this afternoon the congressional budget office releases its ten ten year bd economic outlook. cbo director alex wigle what outline report and take questions from the press live at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now are free video at and a c-span.org. >> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what's happening in washington live and on-demand. keep up the day's biggest events with live streams a

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dod would luck that we are in that world of the intelligence community dod side we would love more withthe cia, they are in charge. brexit has the access staff colleges or colleges. it doesn't have the time, the tasks always are greater than the number of personnel available. there is not our personal allocation allowing this to happen. that is the problem. >> i want to move on. i'm going to list these questions rather quickly and hopefully you can answer them. moving south of our border. to view the mexican cartel issued by the national security threat is viewed as a drug issue? is it a law enforcement issue? who is the lead on this? number two, do you view china's role in the basic components of fentanyl as a deliberate intent by them or more of a opportunity to degrade us in our society? number three does that commit adequate resources to latin america especially with respect to influence in latin america. general i will start with you. >> the regard be a national security threat. you have the coordination of the response is a cheap omission. obviously of d.o.j., you have dea other d

we started as a consumer facing company but at this point dod is a major part of our customer base.s. military and civilian was outpacing the traditional system. the drone that you can buy them as a consumer has though -- or as a private company cost a few thousand dollars and has more advanced capabilities, more usable and acceptable then traditional military systems when it comes to a few hundred thousand dollars. tragically ukraine has put an excellent nation --! on this. drones have become relevant and they've highlighted the deadly implications in many cases of using drones that are calling home to china and align with chinese foreign policy. we've been a part of this for years now and we are seeing these trends come to a head in ukraine. caroline: well said. we talked about the growth, we talk about the applications, some of the more emotional than others but we thank you so much for spinning time with us. skydio ceo on the latest funding round. coming up, the agenda gap and the health of tech. courtney is going be joining us to tell us more. as we had to break, watching share

a public series of ev events, and so maybe not the president or somebody like the president of the dod to come out to say publicly what we are comfortable to say at this point. >> general, is it that any or all of these airborne objects come out to be benign and not spy objects oany kind -- and oh! i am throwing pens behind me, apologies, everyone, and just to track these down? >> well, it is a statement of fact, and if they were benign as described, at least we would know that, and that is okay, and whether it is a balloon with the capability or a whatever with no capability other than it got our attention, and it got our attention, and we responded appropriately, and this is going to give the adversaries how they can possibly get into our mechanism of national defense. we don't know what it is until we know. so if we don't describe the narrative, a whole bunch of folks are going to make it up, and so this administration needs to get ahead of it. >> and he chinese foreign agency has come out to say that the united states has been flying balloons over their airspace for years. >> and i

do they report the incident to faa are there any connection with dod?protocols. >> thank you for the question i would just relate that from my own time as an airline captain there have been times when you see a balloon and typically as a pilot you report that to air traffic control and there are times i.e. have flown be advised we have a high altitude balloon so there is a process in place to report and then as we mentioned earlier the embedded team with norad was strong connections so there is a whole of government approach to protect the homeland and our skies. >> and those protocols are followed. >> for reporting quick. >> it depends. >> will everybody report they saw a balloon my guess is probably never a report, it was stated that the faa struggles to carry out its role to integrate new technologies and capabilities across various offices within the agency . integrating new technologies and certification will be a priority as i work on the faa reauthorization. how is the faa addressing concerns in the ig report and integrating new technology? could

i know we're awaiting a briefing from the dod, but i think this is all a little too late.y objects, unprecedented being shot down and the american people largely in the dark and representatives going on television and could be reassuring and mumbo jumbo, how china has been humiliated. it doesn't give comfort to the people in the midwest, alaska and across our nation having to look up at the sky and wondering if their state is next. unprepared, unacceptable. alicia: yeah, and you brought up a point, one after the other, after the other, right? it's been kind of weird. >> there are no accidents, there are no coincidences, freud, i believe, said that. have these objects always existed? now they're only being shot down. take out the chinese spy balloon, but the other three after that, over michigan, over alaska, over canada. are we shooting them down now because joe biden wants a do-over because of the chinese spy balloon, because biden did a clark griswold? and the commander-in-chief should be in front of a microphone, because the super bowl is more than 100 million people ar

we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we'll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen's hall for temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a productive series of meetings in the republic of korea in the philippines, the secretary and his counterpart reaffirmed measures for deterrence on the korean peninsula, and pledge to closely cooperate regarding assets in the future, as well as further expand and bolster level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines, secretary austin had his first meeting with secretary galvez, and reiterated commitment is iranclad, the secretary expressed appreciation for four new enhanced cooperation and secretary austin and secretary galvez noted key pillar of alliance cooperation and training exercises and interoperatability. department of

i mean, from the state department to the dod to the norad commanders.t even complete. it's disheartening to say the least. maria: yeah, that's right. and we know that the spy balloon a week ago was taking images of our nuclear installations and military complex. michael mccall, the chairman of foreign you affairs, told me yesterday that the balloon had antennas on it and was able to have lots of technology, enabled it to snap pictures, images of the military install laces. -- installations. what's behind this and what are your thoughts on the capabilities of that balloon. >> mike mccall, i saw -- i rarely miss you on sundays. mike's a good friend and we certainly talk and he received some pretty high level briefings and what he shared was things that the general public and the american people need to know. this thing was sophisticated. this thing was being driven. this thing was very deliberate. it went over sights they that were pre-planned and were very, very military sensitive. so we have a serious issue and the idea that it was left to just carry ou