We welcome our witnesses this afternoon.

Are you going to be needing funding for this, coming up in the future?

Ms. Chaplain, do you think there is a gap?

The structure on NPOESS between the Air Force and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA has not worked.

As is the procedure, each of your statements will be entered in the record at this time.

I think the management structure has in large part been the problem, as well as the technical challenges.

What are the lessons learned from the cancellation of TSAT?

Would the Air Force get reimbursed for the services you provide to nongovernmental entities in that Joint Space Operations Center?

First, the world depends on GPS. We know it. We are responsible for it.

What is your assessment of a probability of a gap, and how can you mitigate it?

I would suggest to you that another problem is its management by committee, and you have to have a lead.

The legacy UHF satellite is not lasting as long as it was supposed to. So now there appears to be the possibility of a UHF gap.

Are there other contractors involved besides Boeing?

In order to avoid these collisions, do you think anything else needs to be done?

This is the last subcommittee hearing prior the markup of the National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2010.

The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is underway, and each of you have a role in the process.

We are going to bring General O'Reilly in here.

There's an article in the New York Times and in a bunch of other papers about the publication of the Government Printing Office (GPO) Web site of a report that, according to the article, 'gives detailed information about hundreds of the…