1、jhgfjfghjfgh DRAFT Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments 1667 K Street NW,Suite 900,Washington DC 20006 Thinking Smarter About Defense www.CSBAonline.org|202-331-7990|Fax 202-331-8019 June 19,2014 STATEMENT BEFORE THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEAPOWER AND PROJECTION FORCES ON TH
2、E UNMANNED CARRIER-LAUNCHED AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE AND STRIKE(UCLASS)REQUIREMENTS ASSESSMENT By Robert Martinage Senior Fellow Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Chairman Forbes,Ranking Member McIntyre,and members of this distinguished committee,thank you for the opportunity to share my v
3、iews on UCLASS requirements.Id like to commend the committee for taking an active interest in what is one of the most important force development issues facing DoD in general,and the US Navy in particular.Ive studied this issue for many years,and from several different vantage pointsfirst as an anal
4、yst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments(CSBA),then as a senior civilian in both the Office of the Secretary of Defense(OSD)and the Navy Secretariatand consider it to be a telling harbinger of DoDs ability to transform how it projects power to meet emerging challenges.Ironically,the