i'm very pleased to introduce one of the air force's very important combat commanders, general hyten.lobal command and control of u.s. strategic forces to meet our decisive national security objectives and provide a broad range of strategic capabilities and options for the president and the secretary of defense. we also are honored today to hear from chief master sergeant patrick mcmahon, the senior enlisted first leader for the united states strategic command where he's the senior enlisted adviser to general hyten. each speaker will provide opening remarks and open up for will begin with my dear friend, general john hyten. welcome. >> welcome. thank you. so, good afternoon, everybody. if you saw on the agenda, sitting to my left was going to be my friend, general shag oshanessy. he was diverted by a hurricane so he did not make it. i had to look around and find a combat and command representative who would be the same intellectual import. i didn't have to look far. i had to look at my office next door for chief master sergeant patrick mcmahon. we're going to talk about stotcom's mult

at a chat with general hyten, the conversation was very much about let's get things done, let's don't keep changing what we are getting planned to do. let's make sure that we execute on time and that we do that across the board with the right kind of capabilities. the next piece in the, i do the mid-and the far. in the mid-of those capabilities should look more like the part that does the near. we can't afford to just build a shinier version of what we got right now so got to think about what has to be in that midterm. i think the investment has been incredible and air force leadership hasn't put a lot of time and energy into it. my marching orders from the chief and from general hyten and i'm sure the secretary after brief chat with her, it will make this thing affordable, make sure we don't break the bank, ever get the right capabilities on time with the right kind of enabling capabilities in the right kind of people. i think we're on track to do that and there will be some tweaks going forward. >> i want to thank you all. we're happy to give you this wonderful -- we have it in a tu

working on but when i i look at that lens as well, i've got clear and clear guidance from general hytena stratcom command to come at this as the error component to strategic command. and so that changes a little bit of a a perspective on how we go after that. it gives me a unique opportunity to look at all the things i need to do for the strategic portfolio through the lens of a war fighter as well as an organized train and equip person so gives me a better perspective. >> chief, rapid global mobility, it's really moving at the speed of war being able to achieve all of our mobility objectives any contested, degraded or operation limited private. we will do that with a focus on the aoc, the future, what we need have to be able to do those, to do those things. and also where the error component to transcom so how do we better approve those processes and move it to the speed to being able to support the war fighter. thank you. >> one for general holmes again. is the wing organization experiment at mountain home going to be spread to the rest of the air force? >> i think that will be up to

. >> with that, ladies and gentlemen, would you thank general hyten and chief master sergeant mcmahon? [ applause ] >>> okay, now, look, we've had a great two days. we got to get everybody awaken here this morning. so the emcee just announced the president of afa. which means nothing. but general wilson and general goldfein would tell you i am also have the distinction of being the greatest vice chief of staff of the air force in air force history. how about that? thank you. welcome to our last day. this has really been great. so we really appreciate you all being here. we really have a great panel for you today. essentially, a lot of the leadership of the air force, most of the leadership of the air force, and what's really exciting today is we saved the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all the money we had until the end and we went out and hired the most expensive, most talented, emcee we could find. so general goldfein is going to emcee this morning. i'm going to kick this thing off. good morning, again, b welcome to today. we got some fantastic speakers for you. loo

working upon but when i look at that, i've got clear guidance from you and clear guidance from general hyten to come at this as the air component to your strategic command. so the changes of the bit of a perspective on how we go after that. it gives me a unique opportunity to look at all the things i need to do for the strategic portfolio through the lens of war fighter as well as an organized train and equip her so give me a better perspective. >> chief, or rapid global mobility eventually moving at the speed of work and being able to achieve all of our mobility objectives in a contested to greater our operation limited narvik. we will do that with a focus on the aoc. what we need to have to be able to do those, to do those things. and also we are the air component to trance, so how do we better improve those processes and move it to speed before and able to support the war fighter. thank you. >> general holmes, is the wing organization experience going to be spread to the rest of the air force? >> well, i think i will be up to the rest of air force, chief, and we'll see how it goes. i thin

i'm going to refer again to a remarkably good speech in my opinion that general hyten gave a few weeks ago. he pointed out that if we went to war today, we would win. the adversary no -- they know that we would win. we know it. our job is to make sure that the statement stays true in coming generations. so when it is literally the case that self-declared adversaries, and let me point out, the united states doesn't wish to have adversaries. others declare themselves to be our adversaries. when they have done literally dozens of tests that we have not done, that is a concern. we need to respond. we did the groundbreaking research. they've chosen to weapon nice it. we need to respond. when a foreign president takes to the television to talk about a new system that they have in development, i believe we need to take that very seriously. in response to the earlier question, they don't seem to care what we think. so i think we need to take that very seriously, and we are. and referring to the stop start nature of hypersonic research in the united states, it has been stop-start. i think that

. >> with that, ladies and gentlemen, would you think general hyten and chief master sargeant mcmahonapplause] ♪ >> we're going to present both of our speakers today with a lithograph of the air force memorial. >> thank you very much. >> and we have it in a tube for your. >> thank you. [applause] ♪ >> we will now break for coffee and dessert at the tech expo downstairs. please be back in your seats when general spencer and jeff bezos will begin to speak at 3:40 p.m. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this meeting of the air force association in a break until 3:40 p.m. eastern, about an hour from now. amazon ceo jeff bezos will address the gathering live here on c-span2. on capitol hill the senate judiciary committee has postpone the vote scheduled for thursday on brett kavanaugh is confirmation to the supreme court. committee chairman chuck grassley has invited the woman who accuses brett kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her, christine ford, to testify before the committee at 10 a.m. on monday. chairman grassley has also invited the nominee to testify in respons