Bill Nelson: “I would just add my comments on JSTARS, and I'd like to be kept in the loop...”

Let me define the problem and give you the background.

There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.

I want to see it increase and, thus, all the more reason that you all need to keep us out of budgetary chaos.

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…