secretary gertz. >> mr. chairman, ranking member reid and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. the department of the navy has embraced the recent acquisition reforms. we continue to leverage the available tools to drive down costs and assist the work force. we made meaningful progress to date and will continue the efforts. our work force in particular has made progress advancing their professional and technical talents thanks to your support. further, meaningful reform must be assisted by predictable funding, timely budgets to increase funding levels would reduce market uncertainty and improve our ability to maintain schedule and costs.. >> i want to thank the committee for the authorities you've given to the services to continue to accelerate procurement and streamline capabilities of getting to the war fighter more quickly. the air force manages 470 acquisition programs of record. it's about $158 billion if you add up what we were authorized to s

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