And we will take tremendous risk as a nation when the submarine forces down at those very low numbers in the mid to late 20s because of those decisions, which we can talk about whether they were short-sighted or not, that were taken by the people that made those decisions. And so very, very important that that thought that this is a going concern, something you've got to work on every year. You don't ever get to say, well, let's just not build some ships for a little while here. It just doesn't work. Before I introduce my great panel here, I just, Secretary was bragging a little bit and he gets to brag. Here are the names of the ships that we will commission in the next 12 months. Detroit, Montgomery, Little Rock, Gabby Giffords, John Murtha in the LPD class, John Finn and Raphael Peralta, Illinois and Washington in the SSN class, EPF's Brunswick and Carson City, Tag 66, Maury, AGOR 28, Sally Ride, and seven Coast Guard ships, I think. And those are all ships that are in production, serial production, production lines that are going, ships that we know how to build and we're building well. And I think that is just a tremendous, tremendous, tremendous thing. We're also going to do two lead ships. You saw just before Christmas the lead ship of the Zoom Walk class, Zoom Walk, get out to see and I'll let Dave brag on all the work done there. Great job by the ship builder, the program officers, the supervisor, the technical folks, everybody who had a hand in that. And I'll let him talk about that. And then the other lead ship that'll deliver this year is the Ford. We don't have a PEO carriers representative on our panel because they're out working on getting the Ford delivered this year. It's going to be a real tough challenge. I will say for Admiral Moore, we fired all the catapults and there's a little bit of catapult testing left to do on the wastecats. We have transmitted on the radar, although not on all faces in a continuous manner. We've operated all the elevators and they're all working and reactor plants are functioning and beginning to produce steam. So most of the risk is starting to fade away on that ship. But as Admiral Gale will let you know, the last three months or so of getting a ship, a lead ship with way too much technology in it to its initial trials, that's why Tom Moore and Yao Fan are not here with us. And so I'm glad they're off on that watch. And the last thing I have to point out, the secretary mentioned a lot about energy and we are in the middle of a revolution about energy on board our ships. We created a document, the Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap. I just signed out an update to that roadmap, which really lays out how we're thinking about power distribution on our ships into the future. Power distributions, generators, wires, and breakers. What are we talking about there? Well, everything's different. The DG-1000, its integrated power system, electric motors, generation capacity, well past what it takes to just do the basics for that ship and its integrated power systems activation was a tremendous challenge for us. We learned just a ton about it. The secretary talked about making Ireland and we began the process of installing those auxiliary drives on some DDGs to achieve that sort of level of savings. Of course, the Lewis and Clark TAKEs already had an integrated propulsion system and electric drive. Ford has a significant, and the first time we've had 13,000 volt electrical distribution on a ship. That is a tremendous challenge, a new set of things. I don't know, the Virginia class distributions, unlike any submarine we'd ever built, and of course, Ohio replacement will be the first submarine with a production electric drive. We haven't tried it before, but it'll be the entire class with an electric drive on it. That document, which many of you in the industry have looked at, I know we've gotten a lot of feedback on it. I think it provides a good roadmap for where we're headed. If you're in that business, please give us feedback on it. It's an important document as we think about the future. The lineup of PEOs I've got here, Mike Jabley, PEO subs, been in the job almost a year now, Mike. Three months. Three months. So he's ready for that challenge. Dave Gale, who's just moved back to Washington from Bath Armworks. Brian Antonio, who will update us on LCS. Admiral John Hill, who likes to tell people he's the person that makes ships into warships. It's all about the ships, but John makes some warships. And great to have joining us this year is Admiral Mike Haycock, who is PEO Coast Guard. He buys things other than ships, but it's going to get us up to date on the Coast Guard Shipbuilding Program. So let me turn it over to my first panelist, Mike Jabley. Come on, Mike. Thank you, sir. And if I could have the first slide, please. As Admiral Ardys mentioned, I relieved Admiral Dave Johnson at the end of October. For those of you who remember him, he picked up his third star and is now the principal military deputy to Secretary Stakley. So it's good to have him continuing to work in the procurement business for the Navy. Quick update on where we are in submarine shipbuilding. The Virginia-class submarine is doing well. If you add up the yellow bumper stickers in the quads on this chart, we have 12 delivered to the fleet so far, another 10 under construction, and then six more under contract. The Block III contract, which included a redesign of the bow to include the Virginia payload tubes instead of 12 individual VLS launchers and a large aperture bow array instead of a sonar sphere, that resulted in the cost reduction that allowed us to build two for four in 12, as measured in fiscal Euro $5. We've delivered two of those ships and it's been every bit the improvement that we wanted. We already deployed the first of that block, the North Dakota, along with a Drydeck shelter and the first UUV mission from a submarine in a real world mission off of an attack submarine using Project 1319, which is two Remus UUVs. Very exciting beyond the classification of this room, but it was very successful. With Block IV, which is the block that Secretary Mabus was talking about, where we bought 10 ships for the price of nine, the focus of that block was on reducing the operational, the total operational cost of the class. A lot of design changes that would allow us to do periodic maintenance less frequently and take less time. I'm talking the depot level maintenance that keeps you in the shipyard for a long period. The goal there was to reduce the number of depot level maintenance availabilities for each ship from four down to three and in doing so increase the number of deployments for each ship from 14 up to 15. That was the 315 logo. The Block V is going to be focused on increasing capability. I'm sure you all saw Secretary Carter's memo back to the Navy. One of the things he said in there was we have to increase the capability that we're putting on these ships. One of the ways that was called out in that that we're doing is the addition of the Virginia payload module. If you could go to the next slide, one of the reasons this is so important is when we retire the SSG ends, the first four Ohio class SSB ends that we converted to guided missile submarines. When we start retiring those in 2026, 2027, 2028, we suffer a severe loss of undersea strike capability. The number of launchers from submarines drops down to almost 40% of what we have now. In order to make up that 62% shortfall, the plan is to add strike capacity to the Virginia class submarine by inserting the Virginia payload module, which will include four large Virginia payload tubes, each of which can take seven Tomahawk missiles. When you add that to the two tubes in the bow, it results in a total of 40 missiles per ship. The current program of record has us building 15 Virginia class submarines through the end of the class that will have this capability. Then we're working as hard as we can to reduce the cost of the Virginia payload module such that we'll be able to build more Virginia class with the VPM. It's much better from a contracting perspective, from a construction perspective, and for restoring launcher capability in the fleet. Next slide, please. The biggest priority, of course, is the Ohio replacement program. The absolute imperative to recapitalize our at sea strategic deterrence has been stated over and over again by many leaders in the Navy and in the government. The Ohio replacement is how we plan to do that. With the Ohio class submarines, we're already extending them from a service life of 30 years out to a service life of 42 years, which is something that we have never done before. The longest we have ever operated a nuclear-powered submarine is about 36 years on the USS Kamehameha. We're going to take the Ohio's to 42 years, and we have to do that because that's the only way that we can continue to provide at sea strategic deterrence until the Ohio replacement program comes into being. So that places two imperatives on team submarine. First, we have to sustain the Ohio's. We have to make sure that the maintenance on those ships gets done. We have to be sure we look at obsolescence management and such that those ships are as capable as they were on their last day of service at 42 years as they were on their first day of service. And then the second imperative is that the Ohio replacement program has to continue on track, on schedule, within the cost constraints so that we deliver the first Ohio replacement in 2028 and it's on patrol in 2031. Now, that's a challenge in and of itself because we're incorporating several new technologies into this program. A significant amount of the ship is a direct pull through from the Virginia class. Proven components, proven technology, proven construction techniques. However, as Admiral Hilaris mentioned, electric drive for the propulsion plant is something that we have not done in a production line on a submarine. Naval reactors is leading this charge. Development of electric drive and the life of the ship core, which removes the need from refueling during a midlife overhaul, are two key components of the strategy for Ohio replacement program. The strategic weapon systems, which Vice Admiral Terry Benedict is running at SSP, is a continuation of the D5 missile with the service life extension and the systems that are on Ohio. However, the missile compartment is new. It is a new design in conjunction with our UK allies. We are producing a common missile compartment, which will go on both our Ohio replacement and their successor class, SSBN. New fabrication techniques for the missile tubes and new assembly techniques into the missile tube module. So we are already hard at work producing missile tubes, prototyping the construction process and fabrication for the missile compartment, and it's going reasonably well. These are important things to de-risk to allow the production of this submarine to continue on time. Then for my final slide, I just have a layout of the submarine shipbuilding plan from the FY16 shipbuilding plan. The colors represent the block contracts for the Virginia class submarines. The lines on Virginia are separated into two, those with Virginia payload module and those without Virginia payload module. As I said, we're working to reduce the cost, so hopefully we can move some of those non-VPM down into the VPN category. Then you see at the bottom the Ohio replacement schedule. You'll note that we build two fast attack submarines in each year that there's no Ohio replacement. For those years that there is an Ohio replacement authorized, we can only authorize one SSN, and that's purely a fiscal constraint, not a shipbuilding capacity constraint. The point here though is that there is an awful lot of work coming down the pipeline in submarine construction. If you combine with it, the carrier construction going on at Newport News, it becomes clear that the nuclear shipbuilding industry has both a challenge and an opportunity on its hands. The challenge is this massive amount of work and the imperative to get it done on time to continue our at sea deterrence. The opportunity though is an opportunity for improved contracting methods between the government and the contractors, such that we can enter cross-class procurement contracts, both for long lead time material, the components that are common to the various classes, and then similar components. For instance, the missile tubes on the Ohio replacement are similar to the missile tubes in the Virginia payload module. If we can work with Congress to get authority to do things like advanced procurement, advanced construction, and continuous production, we can significantly lower the cost of the classes of submarines that we're building by smart procurement. And that is an imperative for us. I won't recycle some of the comments that have been made in the past years about the impact on the SCN budget of Ohio replacement. It is what it is. It's an expensive ship. We have to build it. But we understand that our imperative is to control the cost and reduce it as much as possible to allow for the continued construction of the other ships that our Navy needs. So to the Surface Navy Association audience, I tell you that we're very cognizant of that. We're working hard on it, and we expect to be successful. Thank you very much. All right. Great job, Mike. Thank you for that. I think the man we've all been waiting for, Admiral Dave Gale. I'm not going to give him any more accolades he's got. Over to you, Dave. Am I on? Yeah. Okay. Good morning. It's great to have this opportunity to kind of give you a rundown on what I consider to be a very complex portfolio of shipbuilding that goes on inside PEO ships. I first want to recognize my two executive directors, J. Stephanie, Bill Anderson, and the work that they do to help keep me square in the channel, fair in the channel, and the six program managers that head up the programs inside PEO ships. And I'm going to recognize them here. Mark Vandruff, 400D. We're able to select Jim Downey, 500. Darren Plath, Captain Darren Plath, PMS 317. Mr. Tom Rivers, PMS 377. Henry Stevens, PMS 385. Henry, are you in the room? Okay. Henry owes me an awful lot today. Mike Cosar, PMS 325. And I want to give a shout out also Admiral Hallard has mentioned electric ship initiatives and concepts going forward. Steve Markle from PMS 320, not reflected on the slide, but he's a valued member of the PEO ships team. I've been in this job for about 18 months. Everybody's worked hard to keep me square and correct me in a complex business when I say something not quite square. You know, comments like what the Admiral meant to say are often used inside the PEO. And it's a continuation of my turnover with Dave Lewis from 18 months ago that back then only took an hour and I'm still 18 months into the job figuring things out. So I appreciate everything that Dave had done up to that point in the work that I've got at hand now. I also as an opener just want to say a big thank you to industry and not just the shipbuilding industry but every other piece of industry that contributes big ways in big ways some part of what it takes to make a ship whole and complete. We sit around the PEO all day long talking about how hard our job is, how tough shipbuilding is, and we don't do any of it. It's done somewhere else in the shipyards around the country and this is a tough business. We all know that and we have good days and we have bad days in it but I think the best part of being the PEO is that I'm right in the center of keeping the lines of communication open and working our problems together to a satisfactory outcome. As the slide indicates and I only have one slide, you know that the PEO is about 80 billion in the portfolio covers seven ACAT1 programs, two ACAT2s, five ACAT3s, and I will just say in the PMS325 realm among other things they manage about 130 FMS cases with 78 different countries.  We work with 15 CONUS new construction shipyards around the PEO and manage about 150 contracts and doing that. And I'm going to just now quickly run through the different programs and give you some highlights and I appreciate the opening comments from Admiral Hallard as about the successes we've seen on DDG-1000. For years people always looked at it and said too much, too much concurrency, too much new stuff, too hard to do and get to see. And certainly there was a significant task in getting that ship built, tested, and activated to a degree of confidence and reliability that we could take key systems to see and test not only tested at sea but to build our own confidence that what we had designed and built could actually operate at sea and do it well. We had I say one strategy when I came into the job and that was a single builders trial followed by a single acceptance trial but there was so much new and different and so many challenges and risks to be burned down in some of the systems that we're able to select downy and I working with Bath Ironworks had come up with a plan to I'll say to scale the test program to what was absolutely necessary to go to sea understanding that ship would not be complete and not all tests complete but we completed everything to a satisfactory outcome to the extent that we needed to go to sea and to build confidence. We set ourselves a very aggressive goal to do that the week of 7 December and Fred Harris and I Fred and I are famous friends who talk usually sometime between 05 and 0600 every morning on whatever is going on in the business. We took that ship to sea and I got to tell you it was as calm and controlled and as expertly executed as any sea detail a surface warrior would be proud of. It was an outstanding underway event. We tested a very complex automated boat handling system right after clearing the sea buoy. We brought up the propulsion plant and by afternoon of the first day we were doing 32.8 knots and hard rudders. It performed explicitly. There were some lessons learned. There are some things that we need to go work on but nothing that prevents us. I will say nothing that we can't overcome or prevent us from delivering that ship on 25 April of this year. We've got work to do a lot of coordination a lot of teamwork to get that done but we're committed to a 25 April delivery turning the ship over to Captain Kirk and his crew soon thereafter and they get themselves trained qualified and ready to take the ship down the river late summer and I think I can say probably unofficially I think there's a Baltimore commissioning in the planning sometime in mid-October. So I might have to go off to everybody involved in making 1000 sea trials successful. We go back to sea in a couple in a few weeks in about a month to do the completion of the builders trial requirement acceptance trials a month later and ship delivery a month after that. Michael Montsour 1001 is 84% complete and will be going into the water this this this coming summer. Elinda B Johnson 1002 is 43% complete and they're starting the integration phase of the various modules of the ship. In the LXR or excuse me LPD 17 LXR program office we are going to be delivering LPD 26 this year as Admiral Hallard has said and LPD 27 will be going into the water here in a few weeks. That's John P. Murtha is the 26 and the USS Portland future USS Portland is LPD 27. We also as you probably have seen in the press the RFPs on the streets for LSD 28 the transitional ship to LXR. In support ships boats and craft the PMS 325 portfolio we are about to deliver the TAG 66 the USS Murray successful completion by V.T. Halter and about to deliver that ship a great performance by that shipyard. We've delivered the research vessel Neil Armstrong agor 27 in September that's out of Dakota Creek Industries and Anacortes Washington. If you ever have never been to Anacortes and visited Dakota Creek I got to tell you what a neat shipyard what a great place. Sally ride same ship class will be delivering in the spring of 16. I also want to give a shout out to safe boats and the work they're doing in building mark 6 patrol boats. We've got the 12 of those in the program we've delivered for and if anybody in this room gets a chance to go ride a mark 6 hang on it is a wave jumper and it's fun. I had a great great ride on on one of those boats here a few months ago and it was most interesting and exciting was the fact that the the coxswain on this 5000 horsepower boat was an E4 ET.  Great time. So that's what's going on with we and I won't get into the FY 16 appropriations that stuff is out there but there's some accelerations going on with tugs and LCU replacement which I may get into. LHA are USS America LHA 6 is in PSA right now. I think last year I had the chance to talk about what a great commissioning we had in San Francisco and how well the ship performed going around the horn. The ship continued to do well all the way through her C squad. She's in I'll say the probably halfway to two thirds of the way through her PSA right now. Joint strike fighter back fit if you will as a group of alterations going into the ship is certainly the critical path and we're doing very well with that work with NASCO and the lead out there in San Diego and it's a great ship. I gotta tell you as an example of how a precom should work to build a climate and a culture in a crew as you're building a ship that ship is an example of how to do it. It was a great great performance. We also have USS the future USS Tripoli under construction doubted angle. She's about 40% complete and we have the LHA 8 award that's pending. That's an ongoing solicitation as you're probably aware. Oh I wanted to mention if I can go back I'm sorry it was written in the topic page. Go back to DDG 1000 for a second. Given the complexity of the ship and kind of maybe following a little bit of what the Seawolf program had to do that many years ago. DDG 1000s for the post delivery and the initial sustainment of the first three halls will be a program retained inside PMS 500. I've got a concurrence with Mr. Stackley to stand up an organization in 500 to be named PMS 500F that has a bit of an identity to it and they'll own and operate the post delivery test and trials DTOT and initial IOC of the first hall and all the way through OWLD on the third hall. So about seven years with the effort will be retained inside PEO ships inside PMS 500 in an organization to be named PMS 500F. Ship the short connector we've got four under contract two under construction down at Textron. Textron it's got a I'll say a neat and soon to start producing automated production line for the bed if you will of ship the short connector and LCAC replacement and every time I visit there they're further up their learning curve and a very impressive facility that they put together to build ship the short connectors for us. LCAC slips of course for any number of years it takes us to build a new LCAC we have to continue to sustain the ones that we have and we can maintain and execute the LCAC SLEP program inside PEO ships and there's four four craft were delivered in 15 and we have seven craft seven craft currently in SLEP. LCO replacement I referred to that a little earlier ship the short connector as Chris Mercer named it SCXR I don't know why we just call it LC replacement. We've got an appropriation an authorization language to accelerate the buy on those and there'll be more coming on that soon. EPF the former joint high the designation joint high speed vessel owned and operated by MSC and built by Henry Stevens and PMS 385 we've got five ships in service we got permission from the CNO with all the concurrences in place to accept the whole number six today literally today and we've got three ships under construction holds six through nine and on the contract EPF 10 and we're working on award contract contract awards for 11 and 12 this year. I want to say on joint high speed vessel for anything that anybody would say about it it is a high performance ship it's got a payload capacity of 600 tons it does 40 knots and it's made out of aluminum it there's a I'll say a bit of operational learning going on with respect to the whole form safe operating envelopes and and the reliability some of the systems in those boats but TK Shannon and I are working on that together along with Austin to make sure that what's built is built to the design and if we have challenges with design we can go work that together so that's a story on EPF and then ESB the former designation of MLP right I've already picked up the new lingo and lost the old one two variants if you will the first two are ESDs the the dry dock versions and then the ESB is the forward staging based variant the first of those is in service the Lewis B puller and I think that there's another that's another great collaboration as we take ownership of that in a two-tie common environment between surfland and msc to get that ship up and running from a from an operational perspective to deploy and at the same time working some significant back fit efforts for soft capabilities that's EPF three uh excuse me ESB three ESB four is under construction at nasco and we're getting ready to to work on the RFP and the award for ESB five that'll be the fifth hole DDG 51s certainly their last on my list but not least restart program is going well we got 113 it's already been said 113 114 we'll deliver this year 115 and one I'm sorry 113 115 will deliver this year 114 116 will deliver the following year two at bath two at Ingalls both yards are doing extraordinarily well and buying back the learning curve that you'll lose when you put a five six-year gap in building a class of ships and I think the other good news story in DDG 51 resort is it is highly compatible or I say comparable to the modernization of a 20-plus year old DDG 51 in terms of its configuration and combat systems and HM&E systems so there's a good marriage there when you're building something long enough that what you're doing in modernization should be or can pace the very thing you're delivering a new construction it in 10 multi-years ships DDG 50 multi-year ships five at Ingalls and five in Bath and some of the early hulls are under construction as I speak and then of course the up-and-coming flight three and there will be that's the AMD our integration into the DDG 51 class and there's more to follow on that on on our award for the first ship and I won't I won't be able to talk about that here today so with that I'll turn it over to Brian Antonio thank you very much thanks Dave well good morning for those of you that are following along in your program you'll notice that I'm not need a summer but it does give me an opportunity to give a shout out to the I'll say new executive director but it's new since since the last time we all got together came aboard January or February of this past year and so the PDO has really benefited greatly by having having me to join us after six strong years as the cost engineer at NAFC so despite what you may have heard in the press or read about program memos and the like I will tell you LCS is still a program with momentum and I'm going to run through some things if I just go to the next slide I didn't I took out the pinwheel chart I know everyone cat said I changed slides at the last minute I apologize sir but I just wanted to talk in general about where we were a year ago when we were all sitting up here doing the panel what we've got accomplished in the last year and then where we're headed in 2016 because I think that's important for people to get a sense of the kind of momentum that we still have in PEO LCS so when we last met where my tagline here is what a difference a year makes we had six program offices and just like Dave I'll give a shout out to the program offices PMS 501 is captain Tom Anderson running the LCS C-frame program PMS 505 is captain Scott Pratt he's the fleet introduction and sustainment PM PMS 420 captain Casey Moten who is the mission modules program manager PMS 403 captain Bill Goreini as the remote mine hunting system program manager captain Dave Hanabuck PMS 406 as the unmanned undersea vehicle program manager and PMS 495 Ms. Melissa Kirkendall as the air and surface mine warfare including legacy systems in the PEO so we had six program offices and we were about ready to award the FY 16 I know it was 15 but if you recall we had changed there had been a change in the in the ship profile from a 4 and 2 to a 3 and 3 and so we needed to take a look at how to manage the FY 16 ships and so we were about ready to award two additional ships to the block by contract we were just coming out of the small surface combatant task force study and report and in fact one year ago like I didn't check whether it was actually today or not but one year ago the secretary of the Navy spoke right before this panel and it's where he announced that the future SSCs were going to be called frigates so we've had that now for a year we were in the relatively early stages of Fort Worth's deployment to Singapore she had been over there for a few months but we were still kind of shaking things out and and and getting her over there and doing some comparisons with the way that Fort Worth is going to shake out compared to freedom we had just declared within the past couple months the initial operating capability for the freedom freedom variant with a surface warfare emission package she had completed testing earlier in 2014 we were waiting for the report that came out of the commander of operational test forces and we're able to declare that IOC and we were in the middle of the mine countermeasure emission package developmental testing which as you know is more than just a remote mine hunting system with the remote multi-mission vehicle and the AQS-20 Sonar it includes things like the aviation systems that are in PMS 495 like the airborne laser mine detection system and the airborne mine neutralization system so for me that's uh that was eons ago even though it was probably about 364 365 days ago so since last year at this time I've already mentioned a new executive director I've added a seventh program management office to the PEO in Captain Dan Britsen offer who is the frigate program manager and that's the PMS 515 that was stood up by Mr. Stackley we've in that program office we've completed what we call pre preliminary design we've nailed down the requirements and we're very close to coming up with the system selections for for the frigate going forward came through a common combat management system decision not to steal any thunder from Admiral Hill back on the shipbuilding side we commissioned lcs-5 Milwaukee in what was a very interesting commissioning ceremony outside in 20 degree weather with 20 knot winds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin it was so cold that day I have a picture of the foam on the beer from the beer truck frozen it's it's a true story I have it a couple weeks later in a very much more warmer climb down in Gulfport Mississippi we commissioned lcs-6 and that was the commissioning ceremony that Secretary Mavis discussed a little while ago we christened lcs-9 Little Rock lcs-10 Gabriel Giffords lcs-12 Omaha and in about nine days we will christen lcs-11 Sioux City in Marinette on yes the 30th of January if anybody has any electric underwear they'd like to alone me I would gladly be interested in talking with you Fort Worth is still deployed and we kept track of the metrics of Fort Worth deployment compared to freedom's deployment and how she performed on that deployment when freedom came back we were a part of a lot of lessons learned with the fleet with the fleet and with with the ships themselves hey what could we do better with with freedom so Fort Worth I would I would say and if you talk to Admiral Fonter or Admiral Rodin I know they made some comments yesterday during their speeches she is going strong and I and from my perspective exceeding all the performance baseline expectations especially compared to freedom in fact that the same so freedom was there 298 days and we collected those metrics for the first 298 days for Fort Worth she had 46 more days she Fort Worth had 46 more days underway compared to freedom in the first 298 days she had fewer a futile number of cash reps and the cash reps were fixed more quickly and she executed two crew swaps as opposed to just one for freedom staying on the fleet sustainment and introduction side LCS Ron 2 and Mayport is now fully stood up Commodore Paul Young and we held a ribbon cutting in the fall for the LCS support facility a beautiful building down there Mayport and I can tell you from visiting visiting the base down there that everybody is really excited there's a there's a flurry of activity down in Mayport everywhere from the LCS Ron to Southeast Regional Maintenance Center it's almost like hey we got visitors coming we got to get ready lots of activity on that base so again back to the momentum theme since last year at this time we IOT need LCS for with a surface mission package which now represents the opportunity to declare initial operating capability for a trimer and variant we also continued work in the anti-submarine warfare mission package by getting the rapid technology and searching concepts completed in industry and we're in the process of reviewing those concepts so that we can continue the development of the engineering development model with an option here probably in the next couple months and of course the mine countermeasure mission package completed the technical evaluation over the summer lots of activity in 2015 so where are we headed in 2016 well we're going to fund LCS 25 and 26 in March and that'll complete the 22 ship block by for the LCS is and we'll finalize the acquisition strategy for FY 17 based on the results of the president's budget which a secretary may have said for now is pre-decisional so don't ask me any follow-up questions on that please we'll deliver LCS 7, 8, 9 and 10 to the Navy we'll continue supporting the Fort Worth deployment and prepare for upcoming deployments and under ways we will award the east coast sustainment execution contract for for taking care of the ships on the east coast and we'll continue alignment with more of the C-21 processes and and processes and policies we will conduct the engineering for incorporating even more lethality on LCS you heard the secretary mentioned that earlier specifically in the form of over-the-horizon missiles and we will come through the engineering for that in the near term and with a goal of actually deploying one of the ships with the over horizon missile as we go forward still working with the fleet and the pro and the resource sponsors to to nail down the funding and the timing for that we'll continue testing for surface warfare mission package with the surface to surface mission module missile module which is increment three of the scw mission package for ultimately fielding it on an lcs in 2017 and for the mine countermeasure mission package will of course follow the direction that comes out of the independent review team here in the next few weeks to put us on a clear and correct path for making sure we get that capability out to the fleet so let me just wrap up hopefully you've had an opportunity to look at the slide while I've been talking but there's still an excitement and a buzz in P.O. LCS it's apparent every day in the P.O. it's apparent every day in the fleet from the amount of support that we get we're designing building delivering and testing at an incredible pace I hope I've left you with that impression and we're not losing momentum thank you very much thanks thanks Brian I give you extra credit because John Hill told me he's really worried after the three shipbuilders got done there'd be no time left but John we did leave you a few minutes to go tell us how you make all these ships into warships thanks thanks great great thanks Admiral Luggamore and everybody you know one of the things that Admiral Hill already says to me periodically when I walk in the room he'll say well welcome to the Bureau of Ordinance and so I started putting the Bureau of Ordinance tag on my view graph there so that's what that little design is in the lower right hand corner just to entertain the boss right so I do love the the theme of this this SNA you know view beyond the horizon I mean that is exactly where my head is and so I'm really I kind of crafted my discussion this morning less on specific program efforts and more on what we're doing as we look downstream into the future and of course I don't do any of that myself every one of the ship programs that are represented here to include aircraft carriers has a different air different acquisition strategy so the way that I work with the shipbuilders is different when I meet with Dave Gale sometimes we're providing the Aegis combat system fully test and we take it through OT when I'm supporting the zoom all program I'm managing a contract to deliver combat systems that will be tested by his future 500 F the way we work with LCS is based on how that ship is delivered by the shipbuilders so the levers I have to pull there are fewer so so it's just different based on you know how the ship is aligned and and how industry is aligned to do that which makes it just great fun that every week for me is a great one I'm always excited there's always a buzz for me because I typically will spend time with Amal Gale with Amal Antonio Amal Moore less with PEO subs because we must be doing the RQ program okay and we're doing all right on delivering the tail to the ships the the other major partner for me is the Missile Defense Agency so I'll talk a little bit about Aegis baseline nine as we we track forward but like everybody else I you know I don't do it by myself I've got a great team Mr. Stackley the first question he asked me when I checked on board as the PEO last year was hey how is your team and I will tell you I have a fantastic executive director in Bill Bray and I've got two great senior executives focused on two different things Karen Davis helps me with that force level engineering and combat systems and John Fiori is my science and technology and element level engineer and none of this would be pulled together without a great stable of program managers rather than going through the 12 of those program and actually the 14 of them and the two commanding officers we have I'll just kind of mention their names as we kind of roll through the flow our mantra is a sea power to the hands of the sailors I like it it speaks to me I think it speaks to our people sea power can be manifested in a lot of different ways sometimes it's with presence sometimes it's with posture sometimes it's capability sometimes it's capacity for me it's a missile going 200 miles down range all right next slide please I didn't mention the importance of in the hands of the sailors you know when we deliver a combat systems depending on the level responsibility that we have they're working closely with our shipbuilder friends here and the modernization shipbuilders I will tell you that we were often surprised by the feedback that we get from the fleet they will do things differently and I think that inspires us to think differently and be innovative so there's been lots of discussion over the last few days about budget either the goodness or the challenges presented by that we've talked about innovation I will tell you that I'm schooled by Amal Meyer who said we do nothing without industry and I recognize that absolutely true Amal Gale was right we we're in our program offices and the real work is happening in the field and in industrial sites our field activities incredibly important to us our warfare centers our laboratories and I make a large investment in those areas because we are generating the future combat power for our surface Navy and for submarines and for my good friend with the Coast Guard because we do supply weapons and sensors to the Coast Guard particularly the national security cutter very proud of that ship so I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the 30-year surface Navy combat power plan we had Amal Rodin in that war room right before Christmas and he kept repeating the same thing to me over and over as he walked through the four walls and we do what any good combat system engineer would do we start at the threat we identify our gaps we take a look at technology what needs to be invested in now how we pull that forward we align to the 30-year shipbuilding program and we project forward by using something I call guide stars we know we're going to be fighting in space we know we're going to leverage space assets we know it's not as easy as low cross sections ones and twosies coming in they don't care how small they are anymore it's going to come in fast and there's going to be a huge large raid barrage we know that's the world we're going into so we have to engineer for that we have to plan for that so our systems will evolve in that direction so Amal Rodin kept saying it is all about sea control then we next went to the next wall it is all about sea control got to the third wall all about sea control so if you haven't got the message about the importance of sea control in the surface Navy there it is sea control is how we do project power the other thing that we talked about is how we have to move to the offensive and you heard Amal Rodin talk about that Amal Fonta talks about it all the time and that's where we've spent our time really focused is how we take where we've been which is very defense oriented with our missile systems with our combat systems with our sensors and how you take that technology that we have today and turn that around so that we can affect the calculus of the adversary and that's that's really where we're going we know that every AOR is different we know that the demands from the combatant commanders will be different so we have to take a look at the force in that theater and what capabilities they need on those ships at that time and it requires a lot of flexibility so you know right back to innovation how we think as an acquisition program office next slide please so so this is just one of a million different lightning bolt sites at slides that float around in Washington DC I just knew we couldn't have a great s and a if I didn't throw this up there but it is it does not show the full complexity because I noticed as I was staring at the slide it's missing things like the multifunction towed array and our undersea warfare efforts that are led by Captain Harrison Capmokano runs our electronic warfare and our radars electrooptics shop and I are and I tell you the kind of mind boggling things that we're doing with our future sensors are just incredible where we are with the spy six the air and missile defense radar the mdr that is aligned to the flight three is going to be a major game changer and because it is new I don't think that everyone has a full understanding of what the power of that radar will bring to us the power of that sensor will be incredible the flight three will be an incredible ship and so we're really looking forward to deploying that we just came to full power on the full array which is built it's in the near field test range today it moves out to pmrf where there's a target rich environment against ballistic missile targets we're going to fly supersonic against it we're going to fully test that radar and de-risk it before we deliver to mark van drops ships you know downstream so the other great story that I can tell you about coming off of this chart is where we are with the latest Aegis baseline baseline nine we are completing our operational testing we were not able to finish our supersonic testing this last december because of weather and we're going to wrap that up later this year we did the technical capability declaration on Aegis ashore the cruisers have come through the rote and we are at the integrated air missile defense destroyers and our test ship that we designated from the navy with the missile defense agency the mighty uss john paul jones is heading back out on the range this weekend to go do an extension of nipka and we're very excited about the work that we're doing there with integrated fire control okay next slide please so future c power you know when you really look at it and try to figure out where you're going over the next 30 years we know that we can't be very specific out there at the 30 year mark but we do know that there are certain guide stars that will drive us and this is no aha moment for anybody in the room here we have to look at all domains right and we go back and look at the cno's strategy and where we're going every domain is important so looking at space leveraging that not 30 years from now leveraging it today we're doing experimentation today using space we know that we have to look at the look and work with the air community so how do we get tracks from an f35 how does that come in and complete the fire control loop for us that is an extension of nipka the more sensors we have the more robust that fire control loop is and the more opportunities we have an options for the combatant commanders as we move forward with these ships we have to look at the subsurface domain we know that in the electromagnetic maneuver warfare scheme that we're going to operate in areas where we will be denied the use of gps so we can use things that go under the water and use that media it's wildly different that's a different set of physics underwater but we know we can communicate there and we are pursuing options there so looking across all domains subsurface space air is pretty key for us next chart please okay so the future seapower this chart's more about the near term amerlin tonio just mentioned the over the horizon capability that is exactly the strategy of changing to an offensive view you heard the use of the term stick today this is the near term stick on lcs we're looking at longer range over the horizon missiles for other ship classes there's been lots of talk about navy integrated fire control that is going well and that that was no you know non-trivial action that that was we came up with that idea really years ago when we brought cooperative engagement to see and we said we can really use remote sensors and when we first did that it was eegis to eegis we took our most precision high precision radar and that's what we combined into composite tracks we are now bringing in remote data from all radar types and every new radar that comes to the surface navy we now take into cooperative engagement and we can extend we have the situational awareness and the common operating picture that the warfighter needs to operate so very excited about that we are putting c ram on the road of dgs for a very you know tough threat area and a very tough area to operate to give those ships another layer of defense so this is really the first time that the ram missile is going on board eegis destroyers so we're excited about the opportunity space that opens and we're going to look forward to taking care of those ships we just delivered the first c ram mount to the waterfront and it will go on us as porter and then we'll continue our test out there and what's really amazing is we're taking advantage of spanish ranges we're going to be conducting c-squats on those ships in a different theater we normally don't do that but it is a is a great opportunity and some of you may have know that we just completed back in november the maritime theater missile defense at sea demonstration with eight other countries and we launched a ballistic missile target for the first time off of british soil and we took it out with an sm3 coming off the mighty ross who is a rhoda dg and we also had the solovans coming from the east coast because the other thing we want to do is exercise different tactical command situations for command and control and that leave behind a lay down that we have for conducting integrated air missile defense with our international partners in europe but we have laid that down and that that construct will be continued to be used okay so a next chart please the last thing i didn't hit on the last one was the importance of changing how we do business i cannot fully support the shipbuilders unless i do things more efficiently right if we want more baseline nine ships out there we've got to draw the cost down at what it takes to install what it takes to develop and we've got to speed up the velocity that the cno likes to talk about the velocity of learning uh is exactly what i'm talking about here we have done some amazing things with the common source library when i mentioned eegis ashore air defense cruisers integrated air missile defense destroyers coast guard ships and even a variant of lcs they're all coming from the same common source library that's a major tax savings to you as an american citizen and it brings incredible power to our ships and great flexibility and commonality that really means something to our sailors i met with our enlisted team recently and i walked away with one great quote that they said is when you deploy a system out there we walk on board the ship we expect to operate and maintain those systems all too often we spend our time troubleshooting uh that's a major message to me because we when we deliver a combat system the training's got to be there documentation has to be there we have to account for spares and that is something that we're putting a special emphasis on as we move in the future common equipment we've got the same display capability on the zoom wall ship that we have on a destroyer that we have in the eegis ashore that we have on the cruisers that is pretty cool we're pretty excited about that and how we populate data to the display that the operator sees is uh is pretty amazing um so i think the last one i'll talk about is where we're going with electronic warfare uh far too long uh and i remember as an ensign in uh swore destroyer school years ago they kept talking about someday we're going to do hard kill soft kill integration we're going to be able to save missiles by leveraging electronic warfare we just got to make sure we can trust that electronic warfare i think we have entered the realm of doing that not only are we now fully integrating our electronic warfare capabilities with what we see on the radar and determining how many missiles will shoot and who will shoot that because we're connected ship to ship um that the calculus again is changing and so we're very excited about where we're going to electronic warfare we have the block two seawhip system out there on bainbridge today we're getting ready to go to operational test the feedback we're getting from the ship is eye watering and again when you put it into the hands of the sailors you were surprised what you find and i tell you they are doing amazing things with that system so we're very excited about that i think the future is bright i'm looking forward to hopping on a plane this saturday and heading out to the range to see the mighty john paul jones in action and that's it for me i'll turn over to my good friend uh amal hey good morning uh i am embarrassed to say this is my first surface navy association i apparently the coast guard is too small to have a coast guard or surface coast guard association so i appreciate the invite thank you for allowing me to participate um i'm not going to thank all my pms and such because we got about 18 programs but i do want to take an opportunity just to thank the other peos up here because the coast guard were pretty small and so we uh take advantage of every opportunity to leverage um work that's already been done on elsewhere so we've leveraged a lot of navy programs in particular stuff from ibs you know we couldn't do it we what we do without it and uh and so as uh adamall hill has said that you know that he he makes navy ships and warships well he makes coast guard ships and warships too so so i've got about uh six slides i think my staff probably thought that if i want to keep up with our my big brothers here i would need volume um and uh or it might be that they thought the pretty colors might distract you from what i'm gonna say um so probably two of them are really the most important ones so if we can just go to the next slide um so the the intent of the slide is really just to kind of um kind of just to just oppose two things in the lower corner you'll see lower left corner you'll see uh our our uh our national security cutter and uh the c 144 uh maritime uh our medium range surveillance aircraft and those are some of the the newer assets that have entered the coast guard fleet uh in the upper right uh you see a picture of coast guard reliance so um to to put that perspective coast guard cutter reliance on those is missing the coast guard stripe coast guard stripe uh was uh put out uh used by the coast guard in about 1967 so that kind of dates that photograph for you uh and that kind of shows you how old our fleet is so if i go to the next slide so this slide the intent is a little bit of an eye chart but uh the key here is you can see all the different uh classes of ships we have in the coast guard and then uh green is service life and red is beyond service life so you'll notice there's a lot of red on there um so um i'll talk to just about a few of those classes but the very top uh is a high endurance cutter 378 foot high endurance cutter and those cutters were uh uh first one was uh the keel was laid like 1967 uh and those we have we we had 12 of those and and those are you might see more of uh like a fast frigate of course projection sort of thing uh great ships but uh they use gas turbines that are the same gas turbines that were used on 707 passenger aircraft in the 70s so that kind of tells you how old they are and how difficult is to maintain them so their replacement is the nsc the national security cutter and so you can see at the end there um the uh the arrow showing that security cutter kind of the reliever for the for the 378 so 378 fleet is now down to about half um you know started 12 is now below six because the nscs are coming online uh so we have five nscs out there six seven and eight are in construction and we have uh money in our budget in uh 16 uh to build a ninth uh above and beyond our program of record of eight i think those of you who listened to admiral soon come of our comment out yesterday was talked talked a little bit about that the next two uh classes below that are 270s and our 210s those are medium endurance cutters so the the 270 the top one joined the service in in the early 80s uh and uh as you can see from from the green line there she reached the end of her service life uh in about 2013 ish and so we did a mission enhancement program that we started in about 2005 2006 ish and that really what we're doing there was upgrading select systems to bring the operational availability of the cutter class up and but those it wasn't a service life extension it was really there to to make it more sustainable we probably bought five to seven years of additional service life by doing it but we're going to need to do something about that class here in the near future the offshore patrol cutter is our answer to that right below that's our 210 foot class that that picture of coaster cutter reliance you saw in the previous slide is of that class so those those cutters join our our service in the 60s um and uh i think those of you listened to admiral soon come of yesterday you mentioned that on a ship visit to one of those the the chief of the engine room had told the visitor that this is the most cyber secure secure cutter in our class there's absolutely nothing digital on it whatsoever there's no no connectivity at all so from a cyber perspective a great platform um and uh the the ships have been serviced very well over the last five decades okay 50 50 years old uh plus for uh for the early ones in that class uh they're tired um and they they they need some relief opc is also to relieve that class as well uh next one down is cutter eagle uh one of a back the thanks uh cutter eagle um joined the service in as a as a war prize in war war two so commissioned i think in the are built in 37 commissioned the coast guard in 44 45 ish so she's going through a four phase service life extension program even as we speak she's up at the coast guard yard um below that is a 240 foot um ice breaker out in the great lakes relatively new so we're sitting pretty well there the next two below that are buoy tenders i think they're new because they entered the service while i was in the coast guard but they're coming up on midlife believe it or not and then working on down we hit our our inland river tenders the oldest one in in those that class of cutter turned 71 in november and then below that you see patrol boats uh and so we have our fast response cutters and i'll talk a little bit about that on the next couple slides that are the relief for that and then at the very bottom is our polar ice breaker the admiral zoom cuff talked a little bit about and i'll talk a little bit more about later as well and so we got a reliever coming in for that so next slide please so probably of those of all those class of cutters probably the ones that are probably near and dear to most of our hearts and we probably have most interest to you and industry are the opc the frc our national security cutter and our polar ice breaker so for kind of a status in opc opc we have three great teams that are working this we have proposals that we're reviewing and we anticipate making a ward down selecting to one design and and doing that in late fiscal late part of this fiscal year of september time frame fast response cutter phase one is still ongoing that that would provide us with 32 cutters we've taken delivery of 50 or 16 of those i think the 16th gets commissioned in this month and uh and there are 32 that are on the water books we're working on phase two which is a recompete and we have proposals that we're looking or we're looking at and we anticipate making that award here sometime in may june time frame for that for the phase two of that and that would take us up to about 58 frc's total in the fleet nsc cedar that's our structural enhancement dry dock availability the first two nsc's we took delivery of our structural analysis indicated that we weren't going to have the fatigue life that we needed so that is a post delivery availability that's going to happen on the first two that we hope to award here in the spring that is significantly intrusive we're going to tear a lot of the ship down to parade rest to install a better structure thicker plate that sort of thing that's only for the first two we were able to implement those improvements on hall three and beyond in production and then the last one there is polar polar class icebreaker admiral zunkoff announced yesterday that we had a fed biz ops entry uh or uh uploaded fed biz ops yesterday an industry package so we're looking all right all right so uh it's the last year at the polar jokers to the right that's uh yeah last year at the black engineer word conference where you had people getting up and dancing that sort of thing so so i'll spare you that for the polar industry day i'll just make a brief that uh we had a little glitch yesterday when we posted it we fixed that so for those of you interested if you if you hit fed baza fed biz ops there's there's two actual files in there one when you try to access it is not going to let you because you may not have the clearance for it the second one is identical we fixed the issue and so it's there go out and take a look at it do your downloads that sort of thing we'll wait until things quiet down before we remove the the file on there that's that's not working and we look forward to industry engagement on that so i'll i'll turn over so we have time for questions sir okay great thanks so our evil plan to use the entire time talking uh failed so we've got about i think 15 minutes or so for questions hopefully not too many pre-decisional questions but uh happy to go uh direct them to any part any of the panel members in uh i i i am struck and i think secretary maybes hinted at it is the robustness of the shipbuilding that's going on the united states of america right now uh you know uh you know in spite of what you might hear it's going pretty well and and these guys and their teams along with their industry partners get all the credit so uh how about it who's got a question somewhere in the mark van droff i hope you're gonna ask your boss a question i am not sir uh because i get to talk to uh to you and and the other in navy blue there all the time and perhaps too much so i actually have a question for uh fraddle haycock from the uh from the coast guard i don't see sydney freeberg in here who would normally ask you a very obnoxious question and since he's not here i feel like you should be asked an obnoxious question so i'm going to so uh the um uh for polar icebreaker uh given the geopolitical situation in the arctic i'm interested in in the coast guard's vision for the requirements for that ship are you viewing that as an ice breaker for commercial purposes the facilitation of commercial purposes of commercial activity the way your buoy tenders are that also has some self-defense or are you building a warship to take the fight to potential adversaries that also happens to crunch ice and uh where's the requirement for that uh the general requirement for that shaping up and if you want to say inflaming things about potential near peer competitors i would like that even more so yesterday um i witnessed people trying to dodge questions and substitute questions i'd rather answer i'm not really good at that i'm going to give it a give it a shot and hopefully i'll answer your question so um the requirements document the the opera's requirements document is nearly complete it's been signed by the coast guard is at the department of home and security right now for their review uh and their signature uh that that document was put together uh using an integrated product team with like 11 different agencies federal agencies so the navy got a got a got a got a cut on the marine court got a cut on it national science foundation got a cut on it um scant uh you know lots of people had had some input to that um and uh so the the document is is nearly complete we're waiting for approval by the secretary and which which will allow us to move forward the uh the thing that we we downloaded or uploaded up to fed his ops yesterday is uh is not the entire ord it's it's pieces of it uh enough that we hope will give industry kind of an idea of flavor of what we're looking for um the the cutter is not designed as a navy combatant it is um we have we have 11 coast guard missions the cutter is designed or at least we hope it's going to be designed um to satisfy probably nine of those 11 missions um it's not really designed towards counter drug ops uh you know the drug flow uh pass have not migrated the Arctic yet um and uh I say yet because you you don't know the the the adversary does have have a say in the game and uh it's it's not really designed for migrant uh because we don't have a large migrant problem up in the Arctic either all of our other missions search and rescue law enforcement uh fisheries um you know pollution things of that nature uh the cutter needs to meet those missions and and and that's why we need uh we need to buy a new asset as opposed to trying to lease one because there's nothing that exists out there that can meet all those requirements um you know you could build a vanilla a pickup truck like icebreaker that just crunched ice uh unfortunately with the Arctic opening up we're going to see a lot more traffic um you know with oil exploration although it's tailed off yeah at some point in time that can pick up again we need to be able to respond to pollution events that sort of thing uh one of the biggest drivers is the Antarctic mission so annually we need to go down and break open a channel for the annual resupply of Monberto station so that's uh you know once a year they get a cargo ship and they get a tanker in and and that's their their entire fuel and their entire supplies food everything for entire year and and so that that really drives a lot of mission requirements so you know the cutter has got to be able to to break at least six foot of ice uh I think the objective is eight um things of that nature so those are the sorts of things that that drive that mission um I I don't know how many people here have ever sailed on an icebreaker but I've done the Antarctic mission a couple times and uh and and it's it's a very uh it's a it's a really nasty environment to be in uh you're talking about chunks of ice the size of a VW they'll run through the screws so the ship vibrates tremendously um and uh so there's a lot of a lot of things are going to design dry the design from that so I don't know does that answer your question yeah pretty good okay good thank you so much next question please uh yes sir uh this is for emerald antonio uh you you talked about um you did some some comparison between fort worth and freedoms deployments um and it sounds that fort worth was actually done very well and her ace of O was probably higher um is there a message here that uh maybe a particular class of ship may be deployed in one location versus another number one or is it really number two that possibly your processes for maintenance and getting items repaired is as matured and improved over time um yeah thanks teen I didn't know it was you otherwise I wouldn't have been so flipping I'm sorry um I would no I would not read into my comments that um that one particular class of ship is going to operate in a particular geographical area compared to others in fact the plan is ultimately to have four ships operating out of Singapore two of each variant um as you know we haven't had the opportunity yet to deploy the hostile variant but that's coming up in in the near term I say near term probably in the next year or so to to get that ship out there I know lots of interest is uh being placed on the lcs2 variant with regards to mission packages but we need to get that ship deployed um to be able to do kind of a the apples to apples comparison and give the fleet up uh operational time with both variants of ships to to be able to use them the way that they they'd like to use them um last year RIM pack 14 as you know we deployed lcs2 with a surface mission package and she performed very well in RIM pack so again I wouldn't read anything into my comments about lcs3 uh and Fort Worth and Freedom being in Singapore as those being the only ships that'll go there my my point was that as the fleet gets more opportunity to use them as we learn more in the shipbuilding program about about uh applying lessons learned both on the building side but also on the uh uh sustainment and repair side that the ships are uh continuing to to improve operationally okay um we'll also continue to take lessons learned as we go along in fact I just took a brief a few months ago from the first skipper that deployed with Fort Worth and did the crew change out he uh came in brief the PEO and so we're taking that those lessons learned as well I'm trying to to to put them back in um your second quite second part of your question had to do with our maintenance processes and what the Fort Worth experience uh tells us about those processes um I would go back to the statement I've been saying that we're continuing to learn as we as we go along I mentioned during my talking points that we're going to continue to align with with C21 and Admiral Galenis is up here in the third row he and I have just been talking we're going to get even more integrated uh with the way that the processes work um as you know we rely a lot more on contract or work across the board we don't talk about things we generally typically don't talk about traditionally the O I and D level maintenance we talk about in terms of facilities maintenance uh preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance and so we need to mel those together and make sure that the ships are as well supported as possible but it doesn't do us any good to go off into a you know into a solo regime we need to be aligned with with the C21 processes and products it's your question D yes sir thank you thanks yeah I got the other the only other point of that was that uh the driver and variant ended up being the center mass for the my mission module testing that's pretty uh all encompassing is uh taking a lot of those first two ships time to go to go get ready to go do that testing and uh and it's ongoing so uh just the luck of the draw almost yeah next question please thanks uh this is one for admiral another one for admiral antonio uh sir ed wash uh naval institute proceedings can you comment at this point on on the analysis of the problems experienced by Milwaukee last month so Milwaukee is currently in little creek at the base there uh being repaired to um casually that she sustained to her uh propulsion system um publicly I can comment that that it had to do with uh with a reduction gear uh the combining gear specifically um there is an ongoing uh failure review board that's being headed up by c05x and that failure review board findings will be uh completed here towards the end of the month in early February that'll help uh help us define in a in a very detailed way the root cause analysis and the way that we can move forward with making sure that we have a reliable system moving forward you know we I would say we haven't ruled out any as we can say that didn't cause it there's uh probably pieces of you know design etc etc all the things you would expect in a failure review process are still on the table so thank you uh John sorry if I could just one more so uh lucky martin is also taking the advantage is also conducting their own failure review board into the analysis as the prime contractor so I didn't want to make you leave the impression it's just the navy uh industry is also obviously very uh interested in making sure that that we do the right thing thank you uh john harper with national defense magazine the navy ship building budgets for the 2020s are projected to be much higher than they have been historically so how concerned are each of you that the money won't be there um for you to complete or uh to move forward with all of the programs within your portfolio thanks so let me uh I'll go first of them give the pios a chance to go through it uh if you go back in history as the requirements have been clearly stated and the need for the various capabilities of the navy scn budget has generally responded to that uh the idea that uh that's I would say is out there is that we've identified this need 10 12 years in advance we've been working on it talking about it the idea that there's no ability to grow any part of the budget that it has to squeeze out everything else I think is is in question uh I'm confident actually confident that the nation knows it needs a full range of capabilities of its navy and it knows it needs this replacement for the Ohio class to host something like 75 percent of our nuclear weapons from now till 2080 uh and so uh you know I the impact of the squeeze that might occur would be what the pios will address but I think it's incumbent upon all of us to go say is that the right use of the nation's resources and and go make sure they're available so uh you you're the hog so I'll let you go last so uh I know Brian you want to go first and uh well I just I'll go back to my comments about momentum right now with with funding lcs 25 and 26 uh in 16 we'll have a workload going on for the next four or five years or so in both of the shipyard so um so there is that momentum that that continues there um the admiral's got it exactly right with defining the requirement 30-year shipbuilding plan is put there for a reason to help meet what that requirement is and then lots of balancing that needs to go on in terms of priorities happens each budget cycle and we you know what we tend to do is people you know take uh take bets on what the overunder is and that that sort of thing and until the president's budget comes out and we uh we execute to the priorities that were established by the entire defense department um you know it's it's speculation to say that uh you know money might not be there and my my offering would be and I think I repeat what the admiral said again I think if we've got our uh requirement laid in uh in in what is uh otherwise a complex budget environment going forward uh then we've at least communicated what it is that we said we needed all along that's what we need to execute and I'll just speak very quickly to where we ended up in 16 uh in my piece of shipbuilding in 16 we were plus up 2.2 billion to what the original requirement was and a lot of programs you know with that plus upward to accelerate things move things to the left so I I think it's a year to year thing but I think if you got your requirement laid in I think we're having the right discussion on the hill and elsewhere about what it takes to meet our shipbuilding requirements sustained an industrial base in a budget constrained environment okay so uh I object to the characterization as a hog of course a former boss of mine I'd prefer to be known as a pig a former boss of mine said pigs get fed hogs get slaughtered um so uh what what we have to understand is that um we look at this as an every other generation responsibility uh when we started our policy of nuclear deterrence after um the end of world war two the first class of ssb ends uh it's actually several classes combined together to be 41 for freedom so that was started the design work and integration into a nuclear submarine in the 50s and delivered them in the 60s then the Ohio class ssb in uh which was delivered in the late 70s early 80s and now the Ohio replacement but the interesting thing is and and I wish I had brought this slide but if you go back and look at the amount of scn money devoted to the construction of 41 for freedom and Ohio and excuse me Ohio replacement as a percentage of the total dod budget it's actually very consistent so yes it is a spike up as compared to normal submarine procurement um but it is consistent with what we have done in the past when it came time to capitalize and then recapitalize our at sea strategic nuclear deterrent so it's a responsibility we take very seriously and and we're suffering too i showed you on the shipbuilding plan that we can only build one attack submarine in the years that we authorized an ssb in and that that prevents us from uh more rapidly regaining our our requirement of 48 ssns in the fleet um but am i am i concerned that the money won't be there i have great confidence in our leadership both in the uh executive branch and the legislative branch at working together to make sure that the money is there to recapitalize this mission um and then i i dearly hope for the navy's sake that uh they do it in a manner that allows continued progress on all of the shipbuilding programs okay and i'm sorry we're not going to be able to take any more i'll just close that with this is a shameless plug for this afternoon's panel the other thing that'll come into play of course with all that is that we get the expected service life out of all the ships we have probably 10 or 15 years past their service life if uh if history is any guide and so come this afternoon and hear all about the great work being done to maintain the fleet and thank you all very much see you later


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