It is a strategic liability. We have talked long enough about solving these problems. This subcommittee wants to see them resolved. Compounding the urgency is the condition of the infrastructure itself. Defense information technology budgets have long served as the bill payer, absorbing cuts to fund near term priorities. The result is a technical debt problem of historic proportions in both hardware and software. Our adversaries are not blind to this. Not surprisingly, they are taking advantage of this blunder. (02:09–02:18)
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Asserts that defense IT budgets have been reduced to fund other priorities.
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