Jon Kyl: “I would like to just highlight one matter and ask for you to respond for the record.”

The answer is yes, it's inadequate today.

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.

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.