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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbdjy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Sen- ate Office Building, Hon. Jon Tester (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Tester, Baldwin, Shelby, Collins, Graham, Blunt, Moran, and Hoeven. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF THE HON. CARLOS DEL TORO, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JON TESTER Senator TESTER. Good morning. We will call this committee to order. Let me begin by welcoming our witnesses. Secretary Del Toro, this is your first appearance before our subcommittee, and I look forward to working with you. Admiral Gilday and General Berger, you were both here last year, so welcome back to you both. We appreciate your leadership of our Nation's Navy and Marine Corps and look forward to dis- cussing your fiscal 2023 budget priorities with you. Let's be clear, despite Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, China remains the pac- ing threat, and that pace is a run, if not a full on sprint. So the question we are asking as we work on next year's budget is, how do we increase our pace of modernization to keep up with this threat? For the Marine Corps, reshaping the force for the future is abso- lutely the key. General Berger, we look forward to getting an up- date from you about the implementation of Force Design 2030, and any challenges or opportunities you are finding as you modernize today's Marine Corps. For the Navy, Secretary Del Toro and Admiral Gilday, you are faced with the balancing act between substantial costs of building and maintaining a fleet of nearly 300 ships, and the additional costs of modernizing Navy capabilities across the board to meet the threats of the future. To be frank, despite record high investments, the Navy's planned future force structure is not clear. (1)

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