Secretary White, Secretary Johnson, and Secretary Roche, in addition, is the current mobilization causing you to rethink both the size and structure of the Reserve Forces?

Secretary White, Secretary Johnson, and Secretary Roche, are the kinds of units that are in the various Reserve components the right ones?

Mr. Christie, in your February assessment of the ground-based national missile defense program, you stated that 'only a very limited range of engagement parameters have been explored so far,' that 'overall only limited potential…

So, since your statement in February, there has been such sufficient confidence in the system and the testing that you feel like that it is not going to affect the effectiveness in order to deploy this in 2004?

Yet you have had some interceptor successes?

Why, then, is there no current capability against a real threat?

That is why you need my vote.

Let me ask a policy question to the secretary over there. That would be the first time that we would be weaponizing space.

The Missile Defense Agency is an R&D agency that has no operational control over the system it develops.

General Kadish, when do you plan to increase test complexity to include targets with signatures, countermeasures, and flight dynamics more closely matching the threat?

General Kadish, should we proceed with deployment of the GMD system if we have not yet completed a successful test that includes aiming the interceptor with in-flight target updates?