{"id":1737,"date":"2021-06-10T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosen-testing.senate.gov\/2021\/06\/10\/rosen-questions-secretary-of-defense-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-on-dod-budget-request\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:23:06","slug":"rosen-questions-secretary-of-defense-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-on-dod-budget-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosen.senate.gov\/es\/2021\/06\/10\/rosen-questions-secretary-of-defense-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-on-dod-budget-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosen Questions Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on DOD Budget Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">&nbsp;\u2013 Today, during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) questioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III and General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the Department of Defense budget request for fiscal year 2022. Rosen asked about the critical MQ-9 mission at Nevada\u2019s Creech Air Force Base and about protecting deployed U.S. troops from Iranian-backed militias. A transcript of the Senator\u2019s exchange can be found below, and a video of the Senator\u2019s exchange can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJackyRosen\/status\/1403117707298488322\"><b><u><span style=\"color:#1f497d\"><span style=\"color:#0563c1\">aqu\u00ed<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">ROSEN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: Thank you, Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Inhofe, for holding this hearing. I\u2019d like to thank the witnesses for your service to our great nation. Thank you for being here today. You know, right before the break, Senator Cramer was talking to you about our ISR requirements and his concerns, and I am concerned as well about the MQ-9. So, Secretary Austin, the MQ-9 Reaper, I don\u2019t have to tell you, is critical to supporting our current intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">A key part of the MQ-9 architecture is the mission at Nevada\u2019s Creech Air Force Base. Last year, CENTCOM commander, General McKenzie, included additional MQ-9 funding at the top of his unfunded priorities, and in April, he told this committee of the MQ-9\u2019s importance and his need for more of them, not fewer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">The Air Force today still lacks the ISR capacity to meet Combatant Commanders\u2019 requirements contained in the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Despite this, the Department has previously proposed cutting this platform \u2013 their most cost-effective \u2013 without a program of record to replace it, which would further risk widening the ISR capability gap General Milley talked about.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">So, Secretary Austin, what is the Department\u2019s plan for the MQ-9? And given its importance, cost effectiveness, and the requirement from Combatant Commanders for more ISR assets, why has the Air Force cut funding for this program without a program of record to replace it?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">AUSTIN:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">Thank you, Senator. I think you heard General Milley talk earlier about the way Combatant Commanders view ISR. Having been a Combatant Commander in a former life, I can tell you I agree with him. There is never enough ISR. I will always want more. The Air Force has committed to taking off a number of lines of ISR, but they\u2019re not reducing the tails, the aircraft that go with those lines. What they\u2019re doing is making sure they upgrade and modernize their aircraft where possible and so that they can network the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">aircraft better. So, the number <span style=\"color:#0e101a\">of tails is not being reduced. The number of lines is being reduced slightly.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">ROSEN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: And so, can you get to us some information about that so we know what the program of record will be going forward and how it can impact us?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">AUSTIN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: Absolutely.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">ROSEN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: Thank you. I appreciate that. I\u2019d like to move on to talking a little bit about Iranian aggression, how we combat that, because Iranian-backed militias, of course, are increasingly targeting U.S. installations and our service members in Iraq via rocket and drone attacks. Iran continues to be the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism and a threat to U.S., allied interests all across the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">world via its ballistic missile program and its support for terrorist proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, KH, AAH, and many others. And so, according to the recently released Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, and I quote, \u201cIranian-supported Iraqi Shia militias will continue to pose the primary threat to U.S. personnel in Iraq.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Secretary Austin and General Milley, with the constant threat to U.S. and coalition forces in the Middle East<span style=\"color:#0e101a\">, posed by Iran and Iranian-backed militia groups, what are we doing to counter them, and how are we proactively protecting our forces and personnel?&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">Do we have what we need to do that and prevent them, prevent these militias and terrorists from targeting our U.S. troops in the region?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">AUSTIN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: We certainly continue to demand that Iran cease its malicious behavior in the region, in terms of its support of the Iranian-backed Shia militia groups, and we demand that they cease providing them, you know, modernized equipment so that they can conduct these kinds of attacks. We\u2019re doing everything within our power, within our capability to make sure that our troops <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">that are forward-deployed have adequate protection. We\u2019re engaging the Iraqi leadership to make sure the Iraqi leadership does what\u2019s necessary to protect, help protect our citizens who are there to help the Iraqi government.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">MILLEY<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">: So I would say, in addition to everything the Secretary said, is think offense-defense.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">So in terms of defense, the force protection of the force, the disposition of exactly where they\u2019re at, how many they\u2019re at, what\u2019s the hardening of those sites, we\u2019re doing all of those measures. In addition to that, we have missile, not missile defense, but air defense capabilities, C-RAMs, counter rocket and mortar, and counter UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) systems that were put in place. Those have been proven quite effective actually against some of the Shia militia group capabilities. We\u2019re going to continue to reinforce all of that.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">On the offense side, I won\u2019t discuss it here, but I can discuss it in some detail in a classified session as to what we can do, what we\u2019re prepared to do and what we have already done. All of that in combination, we think, is mitigating the risk. It certainly doesn\u2019t reduce it to zero. It\u2019s a dangerous environment, we all recognize that. But we\u2019ve got to continue to work by, with and through the Iraqi government because they\u2019re the first line of defense for the protection of our forces in their country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">ROSEN<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">: Well, thank you. I just want to be sure that we have assets <span style=\"color:#0e101a\">on the ground to defend American installations in Iraq and Syria, and other places in the Middle East.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">MILLEY<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: We do. We absolutely do.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">ROSEN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">: Thank you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:#0e101a\">###<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013 Today, during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) questioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III and General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the Department of Defense budget request for fiscal year 2022. 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