Ben Nelson: “Thank you all for being here today, and congratulations to your families for a job well done this morning, and to all of…”

We must preserve our core fundamental space capabilities in this tight budget environment.

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 cannot just be catching up or trying to stay at par with the rest of the world or otherwise our defenses are down.

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