Department Of Defense Authorization For Appropriations For Fiscal Year 2012 And The Future Years Defense Program Part 4 Airland

Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program: Part 4, Airland written by Committee on Armed Services United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We meet today to receive testimony on Army modernization, as we do every year, before we go into the markup on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Just by way of context, there are about 100,000 American servicemembers in Afghanistan today, and some 50,000 more of our troops are in Iraq. Others, obviously, are deployed elsewhere around the world, including in response to the tragic natural disaster in Japan; and in North Africa now, our Armed Forces have come to the aid of the people of Libya. The topics that we're going to discuss today run the gamut from the Army's programs, policies, and priorities, to the challenges concerning modernization of the fiscal year 2012 budget request and the Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP).