Ben Nelson: “We've been alarmed, like the rest of the Country, at the rising rates of suicide by military servicemembers.”

Can you explain the importance of preserving your operating spectrum in general and how any movement from it should be paid for and coordinated from your perspective, the Navy's?

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

PTSS would be a critical component of both Homeland and regional missile defense as it greatly enhances sensor coverage.

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.