is scheduled to declare ioc later this year, and the navy is scheduled to declare ioc in 2018. the marine corps ioc was based on a version of the program software called black 2b. the air force's declaration of ioc will be based on the block 3i software. the navy's declaration will be based on the block 3f software version. until recently, in order to support the ioc dates, the program office has been working on versions of both blocks 3i and 3f of the software simultaneously. the block 3f software depends on having a stable baseline for the block 3i software. with the contractor team working on multiple repleases of software, correcting deficiencies and achieving software stability has proved elusive. working on the two software pack simultaneously was intended to save time, but that time was lost when the project had to be redone because of mistakes stemming from the concurrency. within the past year, the program executive officer halted works on the block 3f software until the problems with the block 3i software could be sorted out. we need to understand what effect this alt

if we have it solved again, no impact to ioc or navy ioc but probably an impact overall to the end of testing and that would eventually impact the start of iot&e. >> mr. bogdan, i must have misunderstood. you were describing a problem with the software that would occur one time every four hours but it would be okay to occur every eight hours. isn't that still a problem with the software? >> it is not unusual for both legacy airplanes and modern fifth generation airplanes every now and then to reset one of the sensors in flight or have an automatic reset. that is not an uncommon situation. what we find is, if that happens more frequently, and it happens at critical times, then that impacts the pilot's ability to get the mission done but over time and historically we've seen that somewhere between eight and ten hours is probably about what we can expect and that, according to the war fighters, is good enough. >> thank you for clarifying that. mr. sullivan, dr. gilmore, would you like to comment on the 3-f software? >> well, the rate at which these instability incidents were occurring wi

it should not take 15 years and still not have an aircraft ioc. with the cost overrun after cost overrun. so i guess my question finally, mr. sullivan, do you think that we have learned the lessons and taken sufficient measures to prevent a reoccurrence, or do we need to do some more? >> i think there's always room to do more. i don't think we've learned all the lessons yet, but i would, i would say that if you go back five or six years from now or go pack to -- go back to, say, 2010 we're not seeing as many as of these f-35s or programs that aren't achievable. some of that could be because of budget constraints, some of it is from the work that the congress has done. and, frankly, i think the department has done a good job of trying to implement and drive down into the culture some better practices. they talk about their better buying power initiatives. we've got a long way to go though. i mean, there's still way too much cost growth on these programs. we're not using enough. looking at requirements in an incremental way, using open systems as se

in the short term, when the air force was faced last year with a shortage of maintainers for their ioc capability at hill air force base, they asked the program office to pop late an entire squadron at luke air force base with contractor logistic support personnel and we did that, the 60 second squaw drant at luke air force base today on the flight line is maintained with approximately 110 contractors as opposed to boost the maintainers, that gave the air force the flexibility to take those that would have been at luke air force base and transfer them to hill air force base from ioc. that is just a band-aid, though, and that is a short term fix. in the long-term, i believe the air force needs the ability to move maintainers around for the growing fleet of f 35s and we're committed to working with them to increase the put of maintainers through the schoolhouse and to work with our partners and to work with the garden of reserve in the air force who can provide some of that manpower. i'll defer to the air force on those solutions, sir. >> let me ask one more question as my time is expiri

it it should not take 15 years and still not have an aircraft ioc.ith the cost overrun after cost overrun. so i guess my question finally mr. sullivan to think that we have learned the lessons and taken sufficient measures to prevent a reoccurrence or do we need to do some more? >> i think there's always room to do more. i don't think we have learned all the lessons yet but i would say that if you go back five or six years from now, go back to say 2010, we are not seen as many of 35's or these big programs with requirements that are not achievable so i think were learning some lessons that way. some could could be because of budget constraints, some because of the work congress has done and frankly i think the department has done a good job of trying to implement and drive down into the culture some better practices, they talk about better buying power initiatives, we have a long way to go though. there's though. they're still way too much cost growth in these programs. were not

you acknowledge that only half the cyber command newly formed cyber mission is initially capable to ioc. and then some critical elements such as training environment, uniform platform doesn't exist. are you in your mind mature enough to be a full uniformed command now? >> yes. >> and what would that advantage give you? or what would that decision give you? >> whethn we think -- what tend to drive should something be elevated? across the department, we tnd to focus on the impairties of of command and unity of effort and in -- it would be fungal not geographic. in this case, does the function rise to a global level and is it of sufficient priority to merit coordination across the entire department. the other issue i would argue is one of speed. all of those argue -- again, i just am one input. i realize this is a broader decision than just admiral rogers. there's many opinions that will be factored in. my input to the process has been a commander designation would allow us to be fast he which would generate better mission outcome. the department's processes of budget prioritization, strat

soccer federation, the usoc, even ioc has to have the american women there in order to get american tv ratings. and it's one of the craziest election cycles of all time. one of the items on the docket is fair pay for women, of course. this feeds exactly into all those agendas. i think their odds of winning are excellent. >> and i want to ask you this. if these women prevail and they likely should, what do you think we will hear as far as, will we, the reasoning that it hasn't been fair? >> man, we're dealing with irrational behavior, you'll get irrational answer, of course. you're going to claim it's less popular. it's not. they're going to complain that they're not as good. that's not true. they're world cup champions. any logical reason that you can give me that they're not to be paid the same simply breaks down very quickly. so you're going the hear all kinds of crazy stuff. but it will be crazy stuff. the women here have got in my opinion a rock solid case. >> we look forward to the outcome. and we look forward to seeing what you write about it. john bacon joining us. thank you so

and you acknowledge that only have the cyber command and cyber mission forces are initially capable, ioc should say. some critical elements such as the precision and uniform and platform doesn't exist. in your mind are you mature enough to be in full command now? >> yes. >> well with that advantage give you? >> or what with that decision can be? >> generally when we think about what tends to drive should something be elevated, broadly across the department we tend to focus on the in paradigms of unity command and in this case of a functional not geographic. in this case does the function arise to a global level and is it of sufficient priority to merrick coronation across the entire department. the other issue i would argue is one of speed. i realize this is a much broader decision just abner rogers and there's many opinions that will be factored in. my input to the process has been the combatant commander designation would allow us to be faster which would generate better mission outcomes. i'd also argument the departments process and budget, privatization, strategy, policy are all gene

ioc i should say. and then some critical element such as training, environment, platform doesn't exist. are you if your mind mature enough to be a full uniform command now or -- >> yes. >> and what would that advantage give you? what would that decision give you? >> generally when we think about what tends to drive should something be elevated to a command? broadly across the department, we tend to focus on the imperatives of unity of effort. functional not geographic. in this case, does the function rise to a global level and is it of sufficient priority to merit coordination across the entire department. the other issue i would argue is one of speed. all of those argue -- again, i just am one input. i realize this is a much broader decision than just admiral rogers. there's many opinions that will be factors in. my input to the process has been combatant commander designation would allow us to be faster. i would also argue that the department's processes of budget prioritization policy are all genera

in their mission general moan of the main obstacles in the f35 a reach in its ioc goals this year itolves the continued development of alice which is a force used to manage the logistics and supply chain for maintaining the f 35, five, not just now during the rollout but throughout his lifetime. can you tell me how is a joint program office working within industry to ensure this capability is functional and is fully integrated into this weapons platform in a timely and effective manner. >> thank you senator. the alice system right now at the air force is on track to be about 60 days later than what we had planned. the biggest issue we have right now is getting the maintenance and supply chain and configuration management on the engine, the f135 integrated into the alice system. that it has proven to be more difficult than we had anticipated. because it requires both the backend erp, to talk to each other and to connect with alice. we have since. >> and we have worked across the whole country as well as some of the other teammates and we are brought in software experts within dod to t

what's the ioc's barometer for success? how do they define success with these games?> i would say that success from the ioc point of view will be getting through it. that would be the main way. we're going to get through this. >> i mean, very quickly, on the bright side, though, all the venues are pretty much done. >> except for cycling. >> and they've come in pretty much under budget, right? >> yeah. they have to cut the budget by $500 million. no big deal. but the big thing the brazilians have going for them is the brazilians. they love sport. they love life. >> but they -- >> they'll be fine. once it starts and everybody's there there will be a lot of partying. >> great to speak with you. >> we'll get you back to discuss it all. dave wallechinsky, thank you. >> when we come back, a beloved simpsons character has come out as gay. no surprise to many fans but there's a personal inspiration behind this episode and we'll talk to the writer. that's up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ all kinds of people on all kinds of teams use slack to do amazing things. (two text tones) now? (text tone)

and in the two months since then, we're up -- i managed to work with the services and for ioc, we're up to 90% of the force and for foc, we're at about 93 -- we're still at 93% of the force. so, my only point is, i'm not critical of the services in terms of they're generating the force. i think they're making a very good effort and it's on track. they have also been very willing when i said what we need to do , is ensure we have one, integrated joint capability to how we work cyber. so there's got to be one structure, one training standard. every services agreed to adhere to that. so, in that regard, i'm also very comfortable with what the services are doing. what i think the challenge is for us, as i look over the next few years, is we initially focused on those mission teams, and the men and women in their training. what experience is teaching us, not unlike other domains, is -- and as you both chair and ranking member said in opening statements, that's not enough. so what we're fighting now is, it's the other things that really help enable us and we've got to focus more on. senato

the ioc says it has no doubt the city will be ready to go. the countdown is on the 2016 olympics.k at that. the opening ceremony begins in 115 days, one hour and 12 minutes. >>> we're also counting down to the blue cross broad street run. you have one final chance to run the ten mile down broad street. nbc 10 is giving away two bibbs for the race which is sunday, may 1st. >>> enter the sweepstakes by going to nbc 10, clicking onto contest tab. on may 1st we'll broadcast the entire race from start to finish. >>> yeah the next few days will be pretty good conditions to run a race. and then it's going to start to get pretty warm. we have a freeze tonight so a big contrast between 63 degrees now and freezing temperatures tonight. a stretch of dry weather, several days worth all the way through the weekend most likely and 70s will be returning before the weekend is over. look at the clear skies in philadelphia now. what a change from what we saw this morning. 63 degrees. the winds north-northwest at 17 gusting to 23 miles per hour, and that wind is bringing in the colder air. you can s

the ioc is now sending two top officials to work closely with the preparations in rio. >>> among ournis player from the south bay. it's not ping-pong. >> it's different. it's table tennis. this will be lilly zhang's second trip to the olympics. she's coming clean how she discovered the sport. here's bay area's joe rosato junior. >> reporter: it's probably not typical for olympic dreams to get their start in a laundromat. but a fact laundry room on the stanford campus equipped with table tennis is where lilly zhang first tumbled into the sport. >> my dad was a professor there. every time we went to do laundry, there was a table there and i would play with my parents for fun. so somewhere between the spin cycle and dryer, future olympian was born. >> it never began as a serious competitive thing. >> reporter: soon things did get serious. she traded up from the lauddry room to a proper table tennis club. >> it was so fast and so physical. >> reporter: and then at age 10, zhang made the national table tennis team. >> that moment i was like maybe i can do this as a serious sport and go to

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but i just hope in a nutshell that the ioc will not withdrawal us from the olympics in the future.e captain of south africa's team. >> i am. stuart: now, you you're breaking the news to me because i did not know any players had dropped. who has dropped out? >> vj sing. stuart: not on the south africa team. >> no. but adam scott, on the australia team, charles, prominent player. stuart: masters winner a few years back. >> we could definitely win gold medals, which would be such a big thing for south africa. stuart: why have they? their ows which i'm not to talking about. traveling schedules, families, they have their particular reasons. but the fact remains is if -- i just hope the ioc rather than kick us out so to speak golf of the future olympics in japan that they will consider if the pros do this to put in amateurs who will appreciate it. take phelps. his fourth olympics unless i'm mistaken. he has trained for 16 years. if you take all other sportsmen or women, to train delegately, i would have given anything as a young man to participate in the olympics. it's just an honor for

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>> reporter: well, the ioc to be factual about it, the ioc warned them sternly not long ago that they. the same thing happened in athens in 2004 where there were threats to take the games away and will they be ready in time. and remember visiting athens in april of 2004 and thinking there is no possible way they can be ready. and then the rush to the finish line and in fact they were ready. and they were able to pull it off. brazil says they're moving closer. they're moving in supersonic fast motion at the moment. they're getting more accomplished in the last six months leading up to the games than maybe in the years prior to. and they assure us that they will be ready. there's skepticism, and that skepticism is understandable. we'll have to wait and see. >> bob, you think about in the past and contrast when the olympics are on the other side of the world and there was one channel, nbc might be doing it, and then contrast that with only an hour difference and all the different platforms that nbc can broadcast this on. it's mind boggling the amount of live finishes or gold medals or mo

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