Jon Kyl: “I appreciate the witnesses who are here today to help us work through those challenges.”

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

The first thing we've got to do is have a conventional capability which is so dominant that no party would ever consider a nuclear attack against the United States.

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.