02/14/2011
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"Admiral Roughead, as you are well aware, the supply of missile defense assets, whether it be Aegis cruisers, Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) missiles, Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) units, etc...."
"Admiral Roughead, with the growing threat from China, North Korea, and the Middle East, do your forces have enough BMD/SM-3 resources/assets to defend the United States, its allies, and forward-deploy..."
"Admiral Roughead, what will be the impact on most importantly our force projection capability and second the shipbuilding industrial base?"
"should we be looking at a conventional steam catapult solution if the contractor cannot resolve its engineering issues?"