I am concerned about how the Air Force is going to respond and plan for future threats.

I continue to have concerns about the upcoming transition in program management to a new contractor(s) and the potential impacts on the community and local small businesses.

I want to start by thanking our panelists for being here and for the continued excellent work that their respective agencies do every day in providing world-class strategic analysis and in keeping our country safe.

The local community is also concerned that the budget request for fiscal year 2017 for LANL is inadequate.

How do you suggest NNSA and the labs address the difficulties small business have in engaging with the labs to commercialize innovative technologies?

With new M&O contracts coming up soon for both Sandia and Los Alamos, what are your thoughts on incorporating technology transfer as an explicit mission of the labs?

I continue to hear concerns over the lack of progress of cleanup at Los Alamos.

I continue to be a champion of efforts to improve technology transfer from the NNSA labs as an engine for local economic development.

I think it is going to be more and more important that we look at long-term solutions that are actual game-changers like directed energy to solve some of those issues.

Our missile defense strategy was, quote/unquote, unsustainable and that ballistic missile threats, quote, continue to outpace our Active defense systems, unquote.

we have made significant investments to protect our ally Israel from ballistic missile threats in the region.

Mr. Chairman, thanks for exposing these issues.

Greed is how we determine what drug costs are.

I am pleased that the IHS officials from Rockville recently visited the NCI Detox Center which is expected to run out of funding at the end of next month.

Well, isn't it true that in all of the States' departments of health you have got a team of epidemiologists whose job it is when anyone identifies any issues of this nature, that it is more like a SWAT team.

I have introduced a bill with Senator Murkowski that would make the IHS Health Professions Awards Program exempt from a Federal income tax requirement.

When Senator Dorgan was our chairman, we highlighted this.

It is intolerable that any IHS emergency facility close for any amount of time.