"What would be the consequences, risks, or benefits of delaying or cancelling key nuclear modernization programs?"
"There is virtually no schedule margin between legacy system age out and the deployment of modernized replacement systems."
"The bad idea fairy seems to visiting some folks in this town and proposing that we should defer spending on the LRSO and GBSD programs until the Nuclear Posture Review is complete."
"The last Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was published 7 years ago. The world was very different in 2010, particularly when talking about Russia."
"CBO has recently estimated the cost of sustaining, operating, and modernizing our nuclear deterrent to be $400 billion over the next 10 years."
"Looking at the Trump administration's FY18 budget request for DOD nuclear forces and NNSA's nuclear weapons activities, is there more consistency between the Obama administration's plans, or more diff..."
"Secretary Moniz tasked this study as part of the Department's mission to ensure an effective U.S. nuclear deterrent through the application of science, technology and engineering."
"We estimate that an additional $5.2 over the fiscal year 2018 through 2021 is needed."
"General Rand, can you commit that you will make it clear to the entire Air Force that anyone who attempts to interfere with the acquisition of this capability will have absolute hell to pay?"
"I think one way to make illegal labor less profitable and less appealing is to put a fee on money sent back to their home country by these illegal workers."
"I think it took 18 days because they circled the wagons to try to figure out what in the heck was going on. I think he would have been dismissed because of the investigation at some point."