My time is concluding. I will say that in a program that spends billions of dollars over the years, tens of millions of dollars of costs to develop an American-made capability so we are not depending on our number geopolitical adversary's industrial base seems to me a reasonable cost to bear.
Cotton argues for investing in American-made capabilities to reduce reliance on foreign adversaries.
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