Ben Nelson: “The right way to work this problem again is to capture and kill terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

You stress the importance of resiliency and the ability to rapidly reconstitute critical satellite capacity if hostile action or a collision would occur.

There is undoubtedly a foundational level of space capability that regardless of force structure size in DOD, regardless of almost any other decisions made from a budget perspective, that space capability has to continue.

We're at a crisis. We're running out of money and we need to do this as a core function of government.

How are we going to make it work? How are we going to, over a longer strategy, make the dollars work to meet the obligations we've undertaken?