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Ken Calvert: “The civilian workforce continues to grow as we can't meet…”

Featuring: Ken Calvert, Republican | U.S. House, California, District 41

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Chairman Ken Calvert on the debt deal, how to put money into modern warfare and the CCP

Published | Video Starts at 02:06

There's too much manual processing, too few with stem and emerging tech skills. The cost of personnel is rising faster than our total defense spending. The civilian workforce continues to grow as we can't meet our recruiting targets for the army, the Navy, the air force, the rest of the military. And we're operating antiquated systems, manual processes that the DoD can't, can't even pass an audit. In short, this path we're on is unsustainable. We have to change it immediately. (02:06–02:16)

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Asserts that the civilian workforce is growing because military recruitment targets are not being met.

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