Duncan Hunter: “I think it is, and I think it is sound science.”

I have ongoing concerns with the Coast Guard being an armed service within the Department of Homeland Security.

I would like to differentiate, too, between super high-tech stuff that is in its infancy stages and is nascent--and a floating surfboard that can sense if there is oil in the water that has been around for 5 years or longer.

I would hope there is crossover. All the lessons learned and the billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan over the last decade, the people that have been doing that there transferring their knowledge and capability to you.

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