Chairman Thornberry and Ranking Member Smith are actively engaged across the whole committee with looking at how to reform the acquisition process in DOD, which we all agree is broken.

There has been quite a bit of media reporting on the possibility of deploying missile defense assets to South Korea and Japan and China's objections to this.

Japan already has Aegis ships for the defense of its territory from North Korea ballistic missiles.

I would like to request that, if you could in the next couple of weeks, kind of get me some information about what you think it would cost to make those modifications to that site.

Deployment of Aegis Ashore (AA) provides a dedicated system that would provide a continuous missile defense capability.

Why is the EELV Launch Capability arrangement in place, and how does this benefit the U.S. Government?

I don't think you can start the certification process until you prove the technology works.

I hope you get another company in there competing with you all.

Is the DOD still evaluating the appropriate contracting structure in the future, in terms of launch services, capabilities, and infrastructure, to maintain assured access to space and have fair competition?

not having assured access to space is not an option from our national security standpoint.

I want to see us come up with our version of the RD-180, the American-made version, and stay within that same technology realm.

I don't want to build another rocket. That gets us down another pig trail that I don't want to go.