I understand the Navy is collaborating with the Coast Guard in designing the Polar Security Cutters.
just having a strategy is nothing if we do not resource it.
But when it is our own systems that effectively hold them back, that is not fair to anybody.
We are well behind in the construction of how are we going to facilitate our icebreaking fleet.
Thank you.
Alaska is really the first line of defense for our nation up there.
It's kind of embarrassing to think that a country like India is going to have an icebreaker in the water before we would...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
There shouldn't be any ambiguity to it. To us, that is legislative intent, and it is specified.
I have found in some agencies... an unwillingness to speak the language of the tribes.
One of the challenges that we have in Alaska, just as it is difficult to get things in, you have to fly barrels of fuel ...