Jon Kyl: “Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman and Senator Kyl, I am not proud of the lack of progress in the field of biosecurity.”

That's why we say that has to be decided now.

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.

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