Will he have review of this formal process before it goes on up to the Secretary of Defense?

Mr. Secretary, do you expect to keep both contractors in the EELV for the next 5 years?

It seemed that everybody in the world wouldn't allow there to be any reserves.

Do you understand that there are those kinds of reserves in this program, or are they not?

I don't understand, Mr. Secretary, why you decided to exempt all space programs from the full funding requirement.

We may have the beginning of a serious failure of oversight here.

I suspect that Senator McCain might consider an offset of allowing both contractors to go forward in exchange for the resignation of some high level officers of the company.

When you shape up those figures, would you share them with the committee?

But the funding requirement isn't written down. It's not a specific funding requirement.

The question specifically is, will there be a regular formal process by which OSD ensures that these programs are meeting the requirements, they're on schedule, and they're within budget?

Historically, space programs haven't done real well in their cost performance or their schedule performance.