Duncan Hunter: “Sometimes there are folks in my own party who don't believe we should invest in infrastructure.”

ADS-B Out is just a transmitter, right, that shoots to the--you have ground systems and you have a Global Positioning System.

The 2013 National Space Transportation Policy calls for the use of U.S. rockets for U.S. government payloads, with some minor exceptions that perhaps should be revisited anyway.

President Trump's Space Policy Directive-2 directs the executive branch to 'encourage American leadership in space' and 'promote economic growth.'

The U.S. currently has a competitive space launch industry, yet NASA payloads continue to fly on foreign launch vehicles.