Today, Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, made the following remarks on the hearing titled “The Department of the Army 2017 Operation and Maintenance Budget Request and Readiness Posture.” The testimony for today's hearing can be found here.
"Good morning. Thank you all for being here today for our Readiness subcommittee hearing on the 'Department of the Army’s 2017 Operations and Maintenance Budget Request and Readiness Posture.' This is the second of four hearings on the services budget requests and readiness postures. Today, I look forward to hearing how the Army’s budget request enables a readiness recovery plan and where we continue to take risks; calculated in terms of both risk to the force and risk to the mission.
I would like to welcome all of our members and the distinguished panel of senior Army leaders present with us today.
This morning we have with us:
• General Daniel B. Allyn, USA Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
• Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, USA Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (G3/5/7), U.S. Army
• Lieutenant General Gustave F. Perna, USA Deputy Chief of Staff (G-4), U.S. Army
Thank you all for testifying today and we look forward to your thoughts and insights on these important issues.
The purpose of this hearing is to clarify the Army’s choices for its budget requests, to address funding priorities and mitigation strategies, and to gather more detail on the current and future impacts of these decisions on operations, maintenance, training, and modernization. Most importantly, does the Army have the resources it requires in order to improve its state of readiness.
Once again, I want to thank our witnesses for participating in our hearing this morning and I look forward to discussing these important topics."
