So this morning the testimony was that in procurement, about 36% is my recollection in the DoD writ large was in the mandatory bucket for the FY27 budget. And yet Your bucket for Navy has that at 16% [in the mandatory category]. So obviously other services are disproportionately in the other side in the mandatory. Then you get down into the details of your budget as to what's over on the mandatory side. (01:02–01:06)
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Asserts that 16% of the Navy's procurement budget is categorized as mandatory.
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