Secretary White, Secretary Johnson, and Secretary Roche, are the kinds of units that are in the various Reserve components the right ones?

Mr. Christie, in your February assessment of the ground-based national missile defense program, you stated that 'only a very limited range of engagement parameters have been explored so far,' that 'overall only limited potential…

So, since your statement in February, there has been such sufficient confidence in the system and the testing that you feel like that it is not going to affect the effectiveness in order to deploy this in 2004?

Yet you have had some interceptor successes?

Why, then, is there no current capability against a real threat?

Let me ask a policy question to the secretary over there. That would be the first time that we would be weaponizing space.

The Missile Defense Agency is an R&D agency that has no operational control over the system it develops.

General Kadish, when do you plan to increase test complexity to include targets with signatures, countermeasures, and flight dynamics more closely matching the threat?

General Kadish, should we proceed with deployment of the GMD system if we have not yet completed a successful test that includes aiming the interceptor with in-flight target updates?

Secretary Crouch, will the President's planned deployment of the national missile defense system in Alaska go ahead by the end of fiscal year 2004 regardless of the actual readiness of the system or could that time line be adjusted to…

All right.

If we are going to completely throw off the schedule of these folks, I do not want to do that.

It is not clear how the national missile defense system to be deployed by 2004 will be manned 24 hours a day.

You want that system in Alaska by the end of 2004.

Secretary Crouch, when does the U.S. plan to upgrade the radars in the U.K. and Greenland for missile defense, and how much funding will be required to protect the upgraded radars and the local inhabitants from potential terrorist strikes…

Although presumably the warhead would not be armed. Unless they do not have the arming techniques.

What do you think about the potential side benefit of this kind of system?

If you are going to have 16 more tests, and this thing is operational in 2004, you are really going to have a challenge of how do you pull it off of operational to get all those tests done.