ARGH! I created a paper comparing the duties and responsibilities of DOT&E compared to the newly-created Director of developmental T&E. This afternoon I got the advance questions from the senate staff:
It goes on for ten pages of questions. This promises to be a great weekend.
TC
Gods, that sounds like a lot of difficult, in depth questions. I would NOT want to be tasked with answering all of them. Assuming the point is to answer them in a somewhat detailed, efficient and comprehensive manner instead of politician speak.
Good questions though. I will diplomatically not ask you who wrote them. Sounds like the job is to research acquisition and weed out the political crap from essential material requirements. Not that I expect you to answer (please do not, you sound good at your work), but is a gentleman who apparently honestly believed in a 25 carrier requirement cut out for the job? Unless it was an honest mistake and/or something I am unaware of (which is very likely), the job requires an independent voice to advise the SecDef and Congress of requirements, concerns and testing of defense acquisition.
I do wish the guy luck, regardless. It is a very demanding and important job. Hopefully he excels at the task.