00:00We're rebuilding our military with the best equipment and leadership to ensure that our warfighters have every advantage and they're
00:06never in a fair fight.
00:08That's why we had a historic trillion dollar budget last year in investment and we plan to spend even more
00:14in the future and we're asking for a 1.5 trillion dollar investment to make a generational investment to ensure
00:21that we remain the strongest and most powerful military in the world.
00:24And those types of investments, by the way, translate directly into high paying jobs for American manufacturers like the Sierra
00:32Nevada Corporation.
00:41That's why we have no higher priorities, a department that ensuring that a reconciliation bill at a minimum of 350
00:47billion dollars, but maybe more, is passed as soon as possible to ensure that all the deals that have been
00:54made and arranged ways in which we're investing in manufacturing, the priorities of President Trump are actually invested in.
01:02That we send that long term demand signal to industry to continue to invest.
01:06We're committed to it, but we're also committed to doing it in a way that showcases we're a different kind
01:11of department.
01:12You know, the Department of Defense and now Department of War has never passed an audit.
01:17Never, even though Congress has mandated that we pass an audit in this administration, in our building before 2028, we
01:24will pass a full audit of the Department of War to know where every dime is coming from.
01:30We trust you with our nation's most vital assets, which is why you're constructing the next generation's survivable airborne operations
01:38center, the very aircraft platform that I'm standing in front of today.
01:42In a doomsday scenario, Sayoc provides the president with unbreakable command and control.
01:47No other nation on planet Earth has these types of capabilities, serving as our nation's ultimate insurance policy in a
01:55no-fail mission.
01:57Now, I could go on and on about the systems I saw today.
02:00I'll mention just one.
02:02The Brawler air defense system and the Mauler, also proving highly effective in active high-threat combat environments.
02:09Again, speed and adapting on the edge, open architecture, prepared to integrate.
02:16Today, our combatant commanders are employing Brawler and Mauler to shield our forces from asymmetric attacks in at least two
02:23critical theaters.
02:26And at the exact same time, we're taking our legacy aircraft, which is such an important aspect of what I
02:31saw today, and turning them into connected weapons systems.
02:34SNC is partnering with the Air Force to quickly turn existing transport planes into flying communications platforms that can transmit
02:43secure data over any available signal, even when an enemy is attempting to jam those communications.
02:49Your contributions are marking the end of slow-moving bureaucratic procurement models and the beginning of rapid, dominant, and combat
02:59-fielded and tested American firepower.
03:03Washington, D.C., the folks that operate there, the lobbyists, political types, they don't understand what you do.
03:10They couldn't do a day in your shoes.
03:13You know, the finger-in-the-wind crowd.
03:14They don't know what it means to build what you build.
03:17You see, before President Trump instilled the kind of urgency in American manufacturing and our defense industrial base,
03:24Washington was full of folks who understood the art of sitting back and collecting a paycheck and leeching off the
03:31labor that built this great country of ours.
03:33Producing nothing, building nothing.
03:35Worse than that, Washington was content to outsource our jobs, outsource our supply chains, outsource our industrial base,
03:45in the name of globalism or anti-American trade agreements.
03:51You see, President Trump stood up boldly, both in 2016 and two years ago, and said,
03:58I reject this failed status quo.
04:02That we need Americans who still roll up their sleeves and build.
04:05And you are those very builders of that very arsenal that guarantees our freedoms.
04:11You see, we've gone around the country in this Arsenal Freedom Tour meeting with great companies and innovators
04:16and sending the signal to our great companies and our innovators who are, when they are unleashed,
04:23they're allowed to run fast, that the Department of War is open for business.
04:28Not for show, not for peacetime, but with urgency and for victory.
04:34A lasting victory, one that will secure the freedoms that we so cherish for generations to come.
04:41Not just for me, not just for you, but for my kids and your kids and my grandkids and your
04:46grandkids.
04:47It's that kind of generational investment.
04:49Certainly, in this 250th anniversary, we have to recognize that we stand on the shoulders of generations of Americans
04:57who, if they weren't carrying a rifle, they were manufacturing the tools that went in the industry
05:02from wars at home to wars abroad to ensure that peace was preserved through strength.
