Can you explain to the subcommittee whether the life extension of the B61-12 will enable you to retire the W83 gravity bomb or will be retired independently of the B61-12?

The Murray-Ryan budget possibilities and opportunities are there as long as we do not fall back into sequestration.

Given the importance of your mission, we look with anticipation to what those studies and recommendations will be.

You've each indicated that, in addition to improving interceptor reliability, our investment priority for Homeland defense is to improve our sensor discrimination capability, rather than deploying an additional interceptor site on the east…

Thank you for your continued support of our triad and our nuclear Air Force.

Okay, thank you for that update.

What is the level of support from our NATO allies, particularly Romania, Poland, Turkey, and Spain, for our planned EPAA deployments?

The three of you took us on quite a tour. It's impressive what we're doing. I know we want to do more.

last July, the flight test of the GMD system with the Capability Enhancement (CE)-I kill vehicle failed because the kill vehicle failed to separate from the booster.

I want to thank all of you for your time, your expertise, your patriotism, and your hard work.

Thank you, Dr. Gilmore.

In my opinion, there's no shortage of activities to help stem the use of hostile use of nuclear material.

I think we have a good path that we are on for modernization, and while we have had a few slips because of budget concerns, we are on the path.

There is, of course, no limit to what you could do. There's always a limit to resources.

I would very much welcome that.

I urge the Air Force to continue to take all steps necessary to continue to reduce costs in both launch and space vehicle acquisitions and to reinvest those savings in the development of our future space capabilities.

We appreciate the leadership role of Congress in authorizing a sound path forward for U.S. nuclear deterrence.

We have worked, through the subcommittee and members of the full committee, to ensure we continue to develop a strategy to replace the plutonium facility at Los Alamos.

I think the Senator points out the importance of this committee's role as an authorizing body and also an oversight body.

I'd follow up: When it comes to Idaho, have there been effects on the deployed nuclear fleet because of the delay in replacing the existing fuel handling facility in Idaho?

The priority for this budget is in improving the EKV on the interceptors that we have.

I think you did, thank you.

I know that for the large majority of the men and women who serve in this important area, that they had nothing to do with what happened and this doesn't reflect on them.

I think, as you were saying, we have to thread the needle here. We have under-capacity that presents one set of threats; over-capacity presents another set of threats.

the fly-before-you-buy was a policy enunciated in the ballistic missile defense review of 2010 and it continues to be our policy.