I want to thank Senator Manchin, Barrasso, and Ranking Member Risch for their bipartisan leadership in getting COFA agreements across the finish line and signed by the President.

I am a big fan of the AUKUS framework in the Indo-Pacific. I think this announced framework by President Biden of a couple years ago can be extremely powerful, going forward.

I want to thank this committee for working very expeditiously to make that happen.

I think that is a kind of an alliance that is pretty powerful.

The Navy has stood up a manufacturing Center of Excellence in Danville, Virginia, to train the submarine industrial base.

I think that is a kind of an alliance that is pretty powerful.

It is a great initiative, and good work moving out on it so quickly.

Watching the Aussies and the Afghans and the young people from Danville with all their conflicting accents learning side by side to become part of the U.S. submarine industrial base was really positive.

that is a lot of work.

I am a big fan of the AUKUS framework in the Indo-Pacific.

We need to provide a better alternative both in terms of a vision of the future but also material support.

I want to thank Senator Manchin, Barrasso, and Ranking Member Risch for their bipartisan leadership in getting COFA agreements across the finish line and signed by the President.

It is a great initiative, and good work moving out on it so quickly.

We have to be present, we have to be active, and we have to bring alternatives to the table.

I want to thank this committee for working very expeditiously to make that happen.

a very timely one.

The AUKUS legislation helps to do that.

I think that is a kind of an alliance that is pretty powerful.