Ben Nelson: “I just think there's a danger in going below this level and I think we need to be careful and thoughtful about it.”

Hard choices had to be made.

So it is at least somewhat successful in breaking down the stovepipe approach to get cross-fertilization and cross-cooperation within the interagency system?

We as a Nation would be greatly diminished without our space assets.

Being able to bounce back from some sort of a lights-out situation is critically important.