Ben Nelson: “If there were trust, then it would be much easier for the oversight to move away from transactional to more directional.”

The LEP for the B61 gravity bomb... is critical. It's an aging weapon and we need to have a LEP underway.

I firmly agree with the importance of oversight because we are in a government-owned/contractor-operated situation, there are substantial liabilities.

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…

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.