12/14/2009
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"An unclassified excerpt from the executive summary of a Joint Staff operations assessment... there could be operations impact on U.S. military space operations."
"I think it is a matter worthy of thinking about whether we need that capability."
"I would like to be confident that the U.S. Government, DOD is not making commitments with regard to what we plan to do that will bind us and maybe make it impossible for us to effectively maintain our..."
"The fiscal year 2013 budget proposes significant reductions to the Air Force budget which is the majority of space funding, General Shelton, we calculate as being down 22 percent."