With your continued unwavering support, we will make pragmatic decisions on how to best balance our available resources between current commitments and future readiness requirements.

I personally believe you will bring a ray of sunshine to a black hole of bureaucracy.

we have had no oversight of this agency, have we?

I do not think that equates to being free of oversight, free of accountability, and free of transparency.

I think it is important. And you seized on a couple of things a minute ago, and I think they are very important to any agency, and especially this agency--that is, accountability and transparency.

Moving over to Iran now because down the road a lot of us believe they pose a missile threat and probably a nuclear threat.

Congress appropriated in 2018 $11.5 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, which is greater than 5--greater than $3 billion above the initial request by the President.

As much as you can in this setting here, could you explain how the threat from North Korea is advancing and describe the importance, General, of improving and expanding our homeland missile defenses?

I worry as well about providing more funds than you can responsibly allocate and spend.

But are you concerned about the capability gap in missile defense for Europe as a result of this?

You've got to have the power.

You referenced the Aegis Ashore system. Could you give us an update on the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor that we've developed, you've developed, with Japan?