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Hearing National Defense Authorization Act For i [H.A.S.C. No. 115–53] HEARING ON NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 AND OVERSIGHT OF PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED PROGRAMS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON TACTICAL AIR AND LAND FORCES HEARING ON COMBAT AVIATION MODERNIZATION PROGRAMS AND THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 BUDGET REQUEST HEARING HELD JUNE 7, 2017 U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 26–738 WASHINGTON : 2018 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 SUBCOMMITTEE ON TACTICAL AIR AND LAND FORCES MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio, Chairman FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts PAUL COOK, California, Vice Chair JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island SAM GRAVES, Missouri JIM COOPER, Tennessee MARTHA MCSALLY, Arizona MARC A. VEASEY, Texas STEPHEN KNIGHT, California RUBEN GALLEGO, Arizona TRENT KELLY, Mississippi JACKY ROSEN, Nevada MATT GAETZ, Florida SALUD O. CARBAJAL, California DON BACON, Nebraska ANTHONY G. BROWN, Maryland JIM BANKS, Indiana TOM O’HALLERAN, Arizona WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina THOMAS R. SUOZZI, New York ROB BISHOP, Utah (Vacancy) ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia MO BROOKS, Alabama JOHN SULLIVAN, Professional Staff Member DOUG BUSH, Professional Staff Member NEVE SCHADLER, Clerk (II) C O N T E N T S Page STATEMENTS PRESENTED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Tsongas, Hon. Niki, a Representative from Massachusetts, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces ................................................ 3 Turner, Hon. Michael R., a Representative from Ohio, Chairman, Subcommit- tee on Tactical Air and Land Forces .................................................................. 1 WITNESSES Bunch, Lt Gen Arnold W., USAF, Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; and Lt Gen Jerry D. Harris, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Programs, and Requirements ........... 6 Grosklags, VADM Paul A., USN, Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, U.S. Navy; LtGen Jon M. Davis, USMC, Deputy Commandant of the Ma- rine Corps for Aviation, U.S. Marine Corps; and RADM DeWolfe H. ‘‘Chip’’ Miller III, USN, Director of the Air Warfare Division, U.S. Navy .................. 4 APPENDIX PREPARED STATEMENTS: Bunch, Lt Gen Arnold W., joint with Lt Gen Jerry D. Harris ...................... 87 Grosklags, VADM Paul A., joint with LtGen Jon M. Davis and RADM DeWolfe H. ‘‘Chip’’ Miller III ....................................................................... 28 Turner, Hon. Michael R. .................................................................................. 25 DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD: [There were no Documents submitted.] WITNESS RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS ASKED DURING THE HEARING: Mr. Langevin ..................................................................................................... 115 Ms. McSally ....................................................................................................... 116 QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY MEMBERS POST HEARING: Mr. Bacon .......................................................................................................... 124 Mr. Gaetz .......................................................................................................... 123 Ms. Tsongas ...................................................................................................... 123 Mr. Turner ........................................................................................................ 121 (III) COMBAT AVIATION MODERNIZATION PROGRAMS AND THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 BUDGET REQUEST HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TACTICAL AIR AND LAND FORCES, Washington, DC, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 3:33 p.m., in room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Michael R. Turner (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. MICHAEL R. TURNER, A REP- RESENTATIVE FROM OHIO, CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON TACTICAL AIR AND LAND FORCES Mr. TURNER. The hearing will come to order. The subcommittee meets today to review the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force aviation investment and modernization budg- et request for fiscal year [FY] 2018. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. We have Vice Admiral Paul Grosklags, Commander of the Navy Air Systems Command; Rear Admiral ‘‘Chip’’ Miller, Director of the Navy’s Air Warfare Division; Lieutenant General Arnold Bunch, Military Deputy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition. We have Lieutenant General Jerry Harris, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Programs, and Require- ments. And we have Lieutenant General Jon Davis, Deputy Com- mandant of the Marine Corps for Aviation. I understand this will be General Davis’ final appearance before the committee because he will be retiring next month. General Davis, we want to thank you for your 37 years of distinguished service to the Marine Corps and our Nation. And we wish you the best in your future plans. And I want you to know that I know everyone on this committee has greatly appreciated the assistance that you have provided us because you give us not only just a per- spective on what we should be doing, but also your work has been incredibly inspirational. So thank you for your work. General DAVIS. My honor, sir. Thanks. Mr. TURNER. I also would like to thank all of you for your service and look forward to your testimony today. As I have stated at previous hearings, I support the President’s commitment to rebuilding the capacity and capability of our mili- tary. However, I am concerned that the current budget request of merely $603 billion for the Department of Defense will not achieve that goal in the timeline desired and needed. For example, at Congress’ request, the military services sub- mitted their unfunded requirements list to the congressional de- (1) 2 fense committees last week. The total was over $30 billion. A sig- nificant portion of these requests were related to modernization needs. Of particular note, the Air Force included an additional 14 F–35A aircraft, and the Navy and Marine Corps included 20 addi- tional aircraft comprised of F–18 Super Hornets, F–35Bs, and F– 35Cs. I suspect that all the witnesses today will support the President’s budget request. However, members of this subcommittee need to better understand what additional capabilities are required above the President’s request and why it is an imperative we work to fully resource these unfunded requirements to accelerate the resto- ration of full-spectrum readiness. I continue to support Chairman Thornberry and Chairman McCain, who believe that a $640 billion budget in fiscal year 2018 is required to build the capability needed for today’s complex and dangerous world. The military services’ unfunded requirements also validate a higher topline funding level. Today, the subcommittee will review a broad portfolio of tactical aviation modernization programs and associated acquisition strategies. The witnesses have been asked to identify their top five modernization requirements and briefly sum- marize how the budget request addresses them. The aviation budgets for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force appear to be placing a higher priority on current readiness, and rightly so. Earlier this year, we heard the Vice Chief of Naval Op- erations report that over 60 percent—I am going to say that over again—60 percent of F–18s are out of service due to backlogs in depot repair. The budget fully funds depot capacity. This budget also robustly funds preferred aviation munitions, such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition, Small Diameter Bombs, and Hellfire missiles—a much needed increase, especially for the ongoing combat operations in the U.S. Central Command’s [CENT- COM’s] areas of responsibilities. However, the Navy continues to absorb the significant risk in its management of the strike fighter inventory. The Navy is challenged to replace legacy F–18C, D, and AV–8B aircraft that have reached the end of their life service be- fore they can be replaced by new F–35s or new F–18 Super Hornet aircraft. Each year, the Navy flies about 180,000 flying hours in its F–18 fleet, which equates to the entire fleet expending 24 to 36 air- craft worth of service life per year. The Navy’s fiscal year 2018 budget request includes a procure- ment of 38 F–18 Super Hornets and F–35s, so the Navy is only slightly above its annual expenditure of fighter aircraft life. There are two less Navy F–35Cs in the budget request than were pro- jected last year. And the Future Years Defense Program for fiscal year 2018 reduces the planned F–35C procurements by seven air- craft. The Air Force currently has a fleet of 55 combat-coded fighter squadrons, significantly smaller than the Desert Storm force of 134 fighter squadrons. We have heard testimony from senior Air Force leaders that with the current demand for rotational fighter pres- ence, 55 combat fighter squadrons do not allow sufficient time to train pilots, maintain aircraft, which contributes to degraded full spectrum readiness. The 55 combat squadron level meets the min- 3 imum requirement set forth in the current defense planning guid- ance, but the Air Force considers it to be high risk in many chal- lenging scenarios. The Air Force has stated that in order to meet current steady-
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