Duncan Hunter: “We think you guys are being too good of soldiers in terms of maybe being too tough on the budget.”

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

How can you possibly stay on track with that kind of a cut?

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.

Yes, it is just short of $5 billion a year.