mr. brimley. mr. brimley: my advice would be to invest his or her political capital early on, working with members of congress to re-establish a baseline defense budget that is robust enough to fund what the pentagon has been arguing for some time along with your leadership and the leadership of others. as i said in my statement, erosion of our military edge has to be addressed. size is important, the quantity is important, but i worry that if we allow this erosion of our military technical edge to continue at this pace, it will pose great danger to our men and women and we would be putting them in harm's way at some point. mr. donnelly: i would suggest that the president reposture merican forces particularly in the pacific, south pacific but also in europe and the middle east. something he or she could do even with the force that will be inherited and important first step towards reassuring our allies that the united states is serious about preserving the world that we live in today. senator mccain: d

mr. brimley referred to it as concealment and just to quote one sentence in your testimony nature of an act is awareness that they will differ but it seems clear the future battlefields finding the enemy will be easier than hiding from him. the senator identified the advantage of the versatility and the ohio class replacement is far stealthier than any submarine now known or perhaps imagined that i wonder in terms of both your point in relying on a smaller nuclear deterrence that it made consist only of submarines whether in fact we can pursue that objective in light of the plausible plates that finding our submarines will be easier than hiding and we are here because we can't talk about the technology in this setting and in fact i might be a loss to talk about the technology in any setting in terms of mike scientific or engineering expertise. but maybe you could just expand on that flight. >> on the question of survivability as a function, concealment or stove it's not merely that our submarines are well had an aunt they make them the site had that there are many of them when we talk about