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then I'd also like to provide a few 

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well as some other department business . 

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Yesterday , we sent the f Y 19 nd 

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a Section 868 report to Congress . It's 

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summary of initiatives and actions that 

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the February 2018 Defense Science Board 

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report . Additionally , several 

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attachments are included with report 

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which our policy and guidance documents 

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that we've developed over the last year 

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practices . This work is embodied in 

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for the creation of budget activity 

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and Engineering title , with 

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funding category for software and 

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strategy . The department outlined 

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numerous goals and objectives to 

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all spectrums . One of the goals 

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SEC and Operations Ops , where def . 

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SEC ops as a software development 

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methodology . The use of this 

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commercial best practice will support 

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the department's efforts to be 

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massively responsive toe emerging 

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as well as to ensure better utilization 

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enterprise def SEC up offerings This is 

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a joint effort off the chief 

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information officer A . N s . And the 

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service is focused on bringing 

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automated software , tools , services 

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programs concretely eight deploy and 

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banner on a much faster pace , which is 

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services we're currently working across 

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initiative . So changing subjects a bit 

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initiatives with the 76 Software 

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sustainment and R D . O d chief housing 

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officer , joined me during the visit to 

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initiative with both residents and 

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housing provider . Senator Inhofe 

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and D A and the recent waiver granted 

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website and went into effect Thursday , 

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of year purchases to avoid issues with 

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this time As we eliminate Chinese 

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prohibited equipment , and we continue 

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continued progress . Great . We'll come 

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back to the room , um , Barbara 

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for the u . A e . I know you haven't 

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Talked about that publicly , can you ? 

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As thoroughly as possible , bring us up 

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to date where it stands right now to 

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the best of your understanding , is 

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selling the F 35 to the U . A . E . 

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Currently actively on the table ? Is 

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the department involved in the 

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discussions that your Kushner had with 

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EU aid ? Did you provide technical 

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experts technical parts of that 

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briefing ? What's your sense of 

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what's next on all of this . So I need 

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to defer all the questions on F 35 

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sales to the U . A . E . To the State 

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Department . However , I will say I 

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have spent quite a bit of time in the 

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region over the years in this role 

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actively talking about F 16 upgrades . 

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That has been an ongoing discussion 

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that DSC A and Air Force have worked on . 

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But I need to ask you to go back to the 

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State Department . Moving back to the 

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phone you , Scott Macedonia Federal 

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News . 

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Hi , Thanks for doing this . Um , I was 

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just curious about the jet of becoming 

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permanent roll with that . Continue 

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that as it continues in its permanent 

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roll with it . Only work in a medical 

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capacity , Or would you expand that 

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work on other weapons systems ? Another 

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rapid capabilities for anything ? A 

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point of clarification . What we're 

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doing is we're taking all of our 

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learnings from what we've done with the 

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JAT if and we are reducing that toe , a 

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playbook that can respond to any 

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type of federal emergency where 

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acquisition and sustainment support is 

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needed so it could support another pan 

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deck pandemic . But it could respond to 

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other types of federal disasters as 

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well . We stood up the joint 

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rapid acquisition cell years ago to 

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support the war fighter down range , 

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and in fact , I chair bi weekly 

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meetings with our forces both in Iraq 

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and Afghanistan , where we have a 

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secure VTC and we talked to those down 

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range those that Centcom and so forth 

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and talk about what are those urgent 

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needs ? We have a mechanism , a 

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framework , a small staff that supports 

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that . It's a great effort that reaches 

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out to the services and all different 

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components within OSD . What we're 

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looking to do is to have 

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that core group be ready to be 

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stand up and support federal 

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emergencies , augmented as we have 

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augmented the JAT if we actually are 

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looking at transitioning what the John 

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F . Has been doing back to HHS and FEMA 

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later this fall so that they can 

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develop the enduring capability to make 

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to take care of their medical supply 

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chain . So a lot of act a lot of 

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conversation going on right now with 

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Secretary a czar to enable that we will 

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be dispersing those individuals that 

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have specifically been working on the 

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JAT . If later this fall back to other 

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functions . But we will maintain the 

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capability to rapidly reconstitute the 

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capability if needed . 

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Next question . Tony uber Tuka inside 

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defense . Yes , 

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Miss Lord , Thank you very much for 

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doing this . Um , my question goes to , 

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Ah , the white paper the Pentagon sent 

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to Congress identifying $11 billion 

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costs that came from Cove it impacting 

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around 100 6000 jobs . Can you tell us 

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why the defense contractors need 

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that funding now as supplemental 

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emergency Fund ? Because there's debate 

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in Congress about it and some senior 

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Democrats have likened it to a blank 

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check to defense contractors . What do 

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you make of that assertion ? And why 

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did this money ? I need to go to 

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defense contractors . Well , I don't 

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write blank checks . What ? This is , 

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um , is work that our acquisition 

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group has done working with our entire 

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supply chain toe understand the one 

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time costs that were incurred . 

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Do Teoh employees being on 

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sick leave because of cove it not being 

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able to come to work because they 

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worked either at government 

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installations that were shut down or 

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their own work areas were shut down and 

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they couldn't tell a work for instance , 

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if they were doing classified work , it 

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pertains to the one time cost of 

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rearranging manufacturing floors to 

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make sure that those businesses were in 

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compliance with CDC guidelines . It 

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talks about going through and 

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doing deep cleanings to allow workforce 

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to come back . What we are looking 

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for is the one time cost , and 

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this is very , very clearly delineated 

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as to what is allowable and what is not 

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allowable are . DPC team has outlined 

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this and put guidance out so that that 

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money does not come out of 

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the , um services and 

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the actual hardware being delivered to 

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the warfighter so that we do not incur 

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a hit to readiness . Our number one 

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obligation is to make sure we stand 

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ready . We do not want to impact 

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readiness and our modernization efforts . 

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So this is for a very clearly defined 

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period of time . And we are looking 

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at getting past that so it doesn't eat 

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in to the budgets . We have to 

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basically produced services , um , and 

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weapons systems for the warfighter . 

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Right ? Uh , moving on if we could get 

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and Mike Stone from Reuters . Thanks 

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very much . Uh , thanks for doing , 

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Miss Lord . During your tenure , you've 

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been able to move out quickly within at 

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35 sales . Poland . That was a very 

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rapid sale process . Given what you 

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learned from the Poland case , if you 

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had to do that case again from a 

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standing start , how fast do you think 

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you could get one l away we're talking 

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about in general here , I believe . And 

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I will say that Secretary Esper has is 

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a key initiative , um , defense , 

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trade , modernization , Because we want 

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to support our partners and allies 

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with US equipment for a variety of 

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reasons , one to be interoperable . And 

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secondly , to support our domestic 

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defense industrial base to make up for 

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the lumpiness , if you will in US 

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acquisition . We also want to deny our 

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adversaries , such as Russia the 

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ability to generate revenue and develop 

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interoperability across the globe as 

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well . I think the Poland effort really 

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shows what happens when all the 

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agencies such as DSC A and other D o 

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D components work very closely with 

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State Department on DSO fourth . So I 

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think the six month timeframe is a very 

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good bogey . All right . Uh , Lee 

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Hudson Aviation Weekly . Thanks for 

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doing this . Um , I was hoping You 

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could give us more detail about how 

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today's announced that that five ball 

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US configurations are available to the 

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U . S . Government and how that's 

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related to the GP . A title three 

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investment from July's that supported 

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the small US industrial days . Okay , 

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so the blue US , as it's called , goes 

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back a couple years . There's been an 

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initiative , especially between A and S 

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and the army . D I You has facilitated 

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a lot of this , but we looked at the 

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fact that basically D j I from China 

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had decimated our industrial base for 

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small U A . V s quad copters and so 

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forth through pricing 

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that was sub costs and so forth . So 

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what we wanted to do was come up with 

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government standards that clearly 

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indicated what waas 

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acceptable in terms of design and 

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performance to meet department needs . 

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We've come up with that blueprint , if 

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you will , through a Siri's of 

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different fly offs and different 

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efforts . And now we have a Siris of 

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companies that can produce this so that 

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we at the d . O d . And hopefully more 

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broadly commercially can support our 

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domestic industrial base . So I will go 

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back and look at that particular 

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investment we had with the DP A title 

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three . Because I cannot recall 

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specifically what part of this that 

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enabled . And Lee will take that one . 

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Jessica will get back to you on that . 

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But I will tell you that I think this 

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was a fantastic initiative that 

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leverage the S and T community . It 

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leveraged our operators , and it 

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leveraged . Our ability is a department 

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to reach out to the commercial 

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industrial base to say yes , you can do 

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work with D o D . And we want you to do 

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work with us . We want to be fast . We 

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want to be inexpensive , and we want to 

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be responsive to the warfighter needs . 

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Okay , uh , Jeff from task and purpose . 

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Thank you . Um , regardless of what 

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happens in November , uh , Pentagon 

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budget cuts are likely . So I'm 

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wondering , how much would the Defense 

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Department say if it canceled the F 35 

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program ? Thank you . 

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That is an impossible question to 

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answer at this moment because there is 

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war fighting capability required to 

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meet our oh , plans . And , um , 

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we way we have attack air mix 

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to be able to do that . So if you 

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canceled the F 35 . The question is 

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what back fills for that capability 

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that costs something as well . I think 

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as you know , we're in the midst of 

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developing our budget request right now . 

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And the question of the mix of 4th , 

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5th and 6th Gen aircraft is 

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one that is being debated right now , 

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right ? And we have time for one more 

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question . So let's go to Jackson 

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Barrett of Fed Scoop . Hi . Thank you . 

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Could you provide date on the 

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cybersecurity maturity model 

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certification ? Will . Do you have any 

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anticipated delays ? Have you executed 

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the no cost contract with the cement ? 

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See accreditation body yet ? So we are 

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moving forward very crisply with CMM . 

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See , we think it's absolutely critical 

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to make sure Defense Industrial Base 

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has the cybersecurity 

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technology required to understand truly 

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how cyber secure we are . I will double 

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check , but I believe we have executed 

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that contract . But I will talk with 

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Katie Harrington and Jessica could get 

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back to you later this afternoon , 

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and I don't anticipate any delays just 

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to be very clear on that , sure , we'll 

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go back to the room since I was a quick 

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answer . Thank you for taking my 

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question you had mentioned earlier in 

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regards to Kobe the different amounts 

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of money that you're using for 

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distribution . My understanding was 

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that the military won't necessarily be 

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distributing the different supplies . 

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So is a lot of that money going to 

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contractors to distribute the syringes 

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in the masks or kind of house that 

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funding being elevated ? The money I 

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was talking about this twofold . One 

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is assisted acquisition to HHS Toe 

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actually put PPE Pharmaceuticals other 

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things on contract . And then there's a 

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separate amount that we have used Cares 

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Act , funding and DP a Title three to 

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invest in increased capacity and 

553
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throughput so that we have greater 

554
00:26:23,350 --> 00:26:25,820
ability to generate domestically all of 

555
00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:29,780
these different items . When 

556
00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:32,790
you talk about distribution , that's a 

557
00:26:32,790 --> 00:26:35,750
separate and distinct question . Right 

558
00:26:35,750 --> 00:26:38,830
now , we have not put money into 

559
00:26:38,830 --> 00:26:42,050
distribution , so to speak . Right now , 

560
00:26:42,050 --> 00:26:45,550
we are under discussions as to 

561
00:26:45,740 --> 00:26:49,340
how and if D o . D . Is part of 

562
00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:53,260
vaccine distribution . Um , but we 

563
00:26:53,270 --> 00:26:55,492
are assisting , I think is , you know , 

564
00:26:55,492 --> 00:26:58,200
we have Admiral pull love check working 

565
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,870
with HHS and FEMA on the supply chain . 

566
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,790
A large part of what he does is look 

567
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,670
at the demand signal generated by the 

568
00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:13,090
states and local areas . And we've put 

569
00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,890
this control tower into place where we 

570
00:27:16,890 --> 00:27:20,840
assist HHS and FEMA with analyzing 

571
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,250
the demand signal and helping to 

572
00:27:23,250 --> 00:27:25,830
determine where to distribute where the 

573
00:27:25,830 --> 00:27:29,370
greatest need is . So it's almost like 

574
00:27:29,380 --> 00:27:31,600
a typical E r P system you would have 

575
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,070
in a manufacturing plant . We continue 

576
00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:36,530
toe of . I advise and assist on the 

577
00:27:36,530 --> 00:27:38,200
mechanism to do that . 

578
00:27:41,980 --> 00:27:44,036
I want to follow up on something you 

579
00:27:44,036 --> 00:27:46,091
just said . Is there any way you can 

580
00:27:46,091 --> 00:27:47,869
bring us up to date on what the 

581
00:27:47,869 --> 00:27:49,980
thinking is right now about D . O D's 

582
00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:53,120
role potential role in future vaccine 

583
00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,810
distribution in that logistical effort 

584
00:27:55,810 --> 00:27:58,360
to do it ? Have you come have you 

585
00:27:58,470 --> 00:28:01,070
That's under discussion right now ? So 

586
00:28:01,070 --> 00:28:04,290
no conclusions points there under 

587
00:28:04,290 --> 00:28:06,250
discussion . If there's no not the 

588
00:28:06,250 --> 00:28:08,194
answers , but the questions you're 

589
00:28:08,194 --> 00:28:12,100
asking yourself , what 

590
00:28:12,110 --> 00:28:14,830
will the distribution pattern be and 

591
00:28:14,830 --> 00:28:17,510
what will be the mechanisms for that in 

592
00:28:17,510 --> 00:28:20,200
terms of how it is distributed by what 

593
00:28:20,210 --> 00:28:24,210
means and so forth , so under whose 

594
00:28:24,210 --> 00:28:27,940
direction and whose resource is pretty 

595
00:28:27,940 --> 00:28:30,400
much thought that the military , the 

596
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,890
department would have to take a leading 

597
00:28:32,890 --> 00:28:35,060
role in distribution since since it 

598
00:28:35,060 --> 00:28:37,510
would be such a significant effort 

599
00:28:37,570 --> 00:28:40,560
unclear right now . Thanks , everybody . 

600
00:28:40,570 --> 00:28:41,420
Thank you