I want to thank you all for your testimony and your concise answers with the questions.

The world doesn't follow any congressional calendar.

I am concerned that we are significantly eroding our deterrence by setting these sorts of ambiguous boundaries and letting our adversaries kind of walk over us sometimes.

The Sentinel Project is a project that is near and dear to both Senator Hoeven and me.

Congress established a distinct appropriations account to ensure sufficient funding to recruit and retain acquisition personnel.

Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed, and we were able to come together in a bipartisan manner to avert a catastrophic Government default and shutdown.

This is despite unprecedented support by Congress.

The Space Force budget request is designed to support the National Defense Strategy by building, training, and equipping the Forces the Nation needs.

I just returned from a trip with Senator Moran, and some others, and we were all over the place: Finland, Sweden, Egypt, Greece.

I strongly believe that competition drives better acquisition outcomes: it fosters innovation and keeps prices low.

Providing our guardsmen and reservists the best possible training and equipment, just like their active-duty counterparts, is a national security imperative.

I do want to fix them and we need to make sure we're increasing the industrial base so that they can meet these goals.

I certainly want to say the technology that we are looking at is very, very important.

Congress established a distinct appropriations account to ensure sufficient funding to recruit and retain acquisition personnel.

We've got challenges out there in this acquisition sphere whether it's competition, whether it's workforce, whether it's timelines, whether it's meeting costs, whether it's the continuing CR baloney, and I'm being generous when I say…

We did fund 41,500 beds. Don't want to speak for anybody else, but I do support 41,500 beds.

I have repeatedly called upon Secretary Mayorkas, and President Biden, and Congress, to step up and fix what is going on in the southern border.

I do not think it is acceptable to be continuing to say: Don't worry about this, it is coming.