Jon Kyl: “I think it is really important that not Department of Homeland Security but somebody outside the Department make that…”

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

Our responsibility is to be straightforward with you all. You're the ones that appointed us, you're the ones that we answer to.

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

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.