MEGHANN MYERS
Lawmakers tried to hash out details of the Army’s transformation plan during an open hearing again on Thursday, as the defense-industry executive nominated to be the service’s undersecretary took questions at his confirmation hearing.
Anduril employee Mike Obadal, who retired as an Army colonel in 2023, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee a week after his former service released a plan to slash programs, civilian and senior military positions, and more—and did so with no advance notice to Congress, whose support is needed if the proposal is to move ahead.
There are “a number of topline issues, that now we need to get into the second level of detail, on Army transformation,” Obadal told Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., whose state is home to the Army’s ground combat vehicle research lab.
The Army has said it wants to stop buying Humvees and Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, the latter of which is also used by the Marine Corps.
“And this is the work over the next several months that we have to do, not only internal to the Army, but with the other services, the combatant commands, and importantly, with Congress, to understand, what are the effects on the facilities?” Obadal said.
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