Jon Kyl: “I am aware of the situational awareness programs. The point I was trying to make earlier in response to the…”

“I am aware of the situational awareness programs. The point I was trying to make earlier in response to the distinguished chairman of the committee is this is not a situational awareness program. This is a program that could actually result in the development of defenses for our satellites, a lot of different potential concepts. The concepts that would protect the satellites from space, of course, are different potentially from the concepts that would protect them from the ground. I am happy to have a different line in the budget, if that is going to solve the problem. But what I don't want to do is to have the money allocated simply for tracking or surveillance or situational awareness as opposed to researching development of potential defenses.”