Tom Carper

I was impressed with, I think, last week's remarks by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, on how intelligence information from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was almost immediately being shared throughout our…

I said to my colleagues today at another meeting that while I think there is a sense of justice with respect to Osama bin Laden and hopefully some closure for a lot of the families who lost their loved ones on 9/11 and other attacks, the…

The Department of Defense and the FBI collectively had sufficient information to have detected Major Hasan's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism, but that the Department of Defense and the FBI failed to act effectively together on…

Our Nation is much safer, but we clearly are not yet safe.

I completely agree with the Chairman that I doubt that the kind of integrated operation that was successful in going after Osama bin Laden could have existed a decade ago.

That structure undermines the statutory role of the DNI.

I know we are not doing enough--I know we are concentrating on it.

Both have been directly and indirectly responsible for the December 25th Christmas Day bombing attempt, the Fort Hood attacks, and Alabama and Minnesota terrorism cells.

Now it is the ungoverned areas of the world. It is the wild areas.

It is great of you to come, and we applaud your continued efforts here.

Again, we are in debt to each of you. We appreciate very much your preparation for today and your participation here today and in previous years.

My hope is that we continue to do our oversight in the years to come, and if we extend that bar graph or bar chart a couple years forward into the future that we will see not only a plateauing, but we will see those numbers coming back…

Buying additional quantities.

For every dollar you would put into developing more technology, you would probably save a lot more money in product development.

Systemic cost growth jeopardizes the ability of the United States to execute a long-term, coherent, and stable strategy.

When you say poor performance, by the contractor?

None of us escape blame. And if we are going to turn this around, all of us have a role to play.

Just briefly characterize those conversations.

We need to change the culture from one of what I describe as spendthrift to a culture of thrift.

What we are trying to do is to improve our ability, when fraud occurs or when we just make overpayments, mistakes, to be able to go out and recover--after the fact, recover the money from those that have been overpaid or who have defrauded…

Sometimes when we hold these oversight hearings, we focus on disappointing performance, bad actors, that sort of thing.

When we have seen major weapon systems cost overruns rise from $42 billion in fiscal year 2000 to $402 billion in fiscal year 2010, we have a problem.

That is not the kind of behavior that taxpayers expect, and that is not what they should get.

We actually pay the providers up front. Then we figure out it was wrong, and mistake, and then chase them down and try to get the money back.

Is the Joint Strike Fighter.