Duncan Hunter: “So let's break it down into a real scenario.”

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.

This is modern politics and modern media mixed in with law enforcement that has a political agenda. That's a new Department of Justice.

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