Are you confident that the Navy can both refit their cruiser-destroyer force with Aegis technology while simultaneously meeting the maritime demands of our regional combatant commanders?

In my view, BMD testing is qualitatively different from testing for other types of weapon systems.

We need to monitor carefully China's developing ability to execute anti-access and area denial strategies and develop mitigating approaches.

The United States will fund the European PAA, and the European PAA will represent the U.S. contribution to NATO's missile defense efforts.

What are we going to do with all those battlefield combatants that we have picked up and are now being housed at Bagram?

with the exception of the U.S., all nuclear weapon states continue to modernize their nuclear weapon stockpiles and in some cases grow them further.

I know there's tremendous pressure on you from the administration and other arenas to promote this change, and we look forward to continuing this debate and to the study.

The Joint Estimating Team (JET) prepared a report on the F-35 in the fall of 2008 that indicated that the F-35 would be significantly over cost and behind schedule relative to the joint program office's prediction.

While the Taliban can't stop the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, it appears that the red cockaded woodpecker in Georgia has at least slowed down the transfer of the Armor School.

I'm concerned about future policy-related and programmatic challenges.

We need effective systems, but we shouldn't require perfect systems.

China continues to develop weapons systems, technologies and concepts of operation that support anti-access and area denial strategies in the Western Pacific.