Duncan Hunter: “OK, so let's go back and make this simple for me.”

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.

But don't spend $18 billion that way. Spend it where it has the most effect, which is the U.S. Coast Guard.

So what do you think, Master Chief?

That is unacceptable. There is no reason to be testing something that the Navy has been using for 5 years.