I guess the question is why would you go forward until you completely made sure it was somewhat filtered at least?

Russia's cooperation with Iran appears to be expanding beyond near-term coordination or operations in Syria.

The Air Force has faced some challenges normalizing the integration of unmanned aircraft into institutional processes.

Your testimony and all other written testimony will be written into the record.

Thank you very much for your service. We appreciate everything you do for our country.

I certainly understand the need for secrecy among many of the programs of our military, as well as our intelligence communities, and highly value those.

I know the omnibus last year included $70 million for it. What I am curious about is whether that $70 million is in your opinion adequate for the entire fiscal year 2017.

Let us return to today's aircraft, specifically fourth generation fighter aircraft.

The President's defense budget request for this fiscal year is disappointing.

The focus on these three priorities could put at risk modernization in future years.

This budget does nothing to address Washington's spending problem.

Those characteristics would seem to point at least as strongly in favor of a fixed price contract as they would cost-plus.

I do not think we can emphasize that too much, sadly.

We cannot afford to assume that the enemy will resemble threats of recent wars.

Taxpayers have been hit with an increasing number of scams this filing season.

Are we continuing to conduct ongoing reviews to ensure the entities are not engaging in any of the prohibited activities?

Before this Congress considers moving forward with mandates on end strength, we need to consider how we might pay for that to ensure both readiness and modernization.

Given the programs you described, if successful, when might we actually see vehicles commanded by the next generation of H.R. McMasters downrange in Eastern Europe and Middle East with these systems?