Jon Kyl: “To the extent they are lower than the previous year's, would it not cut that amount from your baseline?”

It makes our planning much more difficult.

The answer is yes, it's inadequate today.

One of our recommendations concerns ways that we could potentially mitigate the risk of a deterrence gap.

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.