Jon Kyl: “It is a very important subject, and I appreciate the Committee's consideration of it.”

It's enough that it's opportunistic. In other words, we're in a conflict with one, and the other sees that this is an opportunity.

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

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

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