Duncan Hunter: “Does the Navy have a national security requirement for a heavy icebreaker in the Arctic? Yes or no?”

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

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 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.

The Coast Guard needs to use every tool out there.