Your continued support of our personnel initiatives provides the tools we need to ensure the growth, sustainment, and well-being of our All-Volunteer Force.

But if you are not well defended, the butter problems are not nearly as important.

Do you see any use in joint Air Force-Navy inspections? Would joint inspections address, among things, the shortage of skilled inspectors?

Once Senator Vitter and I get through with our questions, we are going to adjourn to the Office of Senate Security for a discussion on classified matters.

It's an easy locator for the civil side of what I would say the research and development that the Nuclear Energy Program does in the Department of Energy (DOE); some of that work is done at the NNSA site, some of it is done at the…

Theoretically you wouldn't have the space leased; they could lease the space. You'd be inside the fence.

Part of our labs need to help out the intelligence community to support the analysis of foreign nuclear capabilities.

General Carpenter, what is the requirement that the MOP is satisfying?

General Carpenter, what is the capability and purpose of the MOP and why is it being integrated on the B-2?

How are the DTRA inspections coordinated with the service inspections, what do the DTRA inspections cover that the service inspections do not, and what is the benefit from each type?

The new Global Strike Command... will eventually have responsibility for the B-52 and B-2 aircraft.

This is the last subcommittee hearing prior the markup of the National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2010.