Jon Kyl: “It would be unfortunate if the two were required to be tied together and we could not act on the National Missile…”

Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.

It's enough that it's opportunistic. In other words, we're in a conflict with one, and the other sees that this is an opportunity.

We have to make decisions now to make sure that we have the capacity to build whatever we're going to need to build.

The threat briefings that we received leave no question that both China and Russia, but particularly China see space as a war fighting domain.