Ben Nelson: “In the interim, is that end strength sufficient to protect the security of the troops and the mission?”

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.

I would like to know how the Air Force came to this decision and whether they understand its full impact.

I'm very much in favor of moving forward with a follow-on treaty.

The greatest future enhancement for both Homeland and regional defense in the next 10 years is the development of the PTSS satellites, which will provide fire-control quality track data of raids of hostile ballistic missiles over their…