With your help and commitment, we can preserve our competitive advantage and ensure that we never send America's sons and daughters in to a fair fight.

We find ourselves in kind of a strange situation that we and the Russians are allied against the Turks, as far as the Kurds are concerned.

Secretary Wilson, can you detail the acquisitions activities you plan on executing in the B-21 Raider program's engineering and manufacturing development phase with the $2 billion dollars you requested in the Fiscal Year 2018 President's…

There is something wrong with the acquisition process, and we have tried to put you in charge and engage.

I doubt, if there is a conflict in Korea, that one brigade combat team would be sufficient for us to reinforce our forces on the ground in Korea.

General Goldfein, how many space operators is the Air Force short?

When you have women and children killed... that mission is not a success.

Senator McCain. General Goldfein, what is your required total aircraft inventory level for fighter aircraft for fiscal year 2018?

North Korea is closing in on the development of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile.

I agree. But we were supposed to be notified. I can tell you that you are either in violation of Nunn-McCurdy, or you are in violation of the requirement that we be notified. You have done neither.

A return to the current Budget Control Act caps will pose unmanageable--and unacceptable--risks to our ability to protect America's vital national interests.