Jon Kyl: “Yes. I would say to my colleague, unfortunately, it is the case that there probably hasn't been a major conflict in…”

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

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.

One of the things that we noticed in this endeavor is there is a great attitude among the military, among the Defense Department generally in being able to succeed at a mission.

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