We are absolutely looking at the flexibilities of being able to bring people from academia, industry into the government and send them back out again.

A STEM-literate citizenry is not only important to the Department of Defense, it is important to the Nation writ large.

So I will start and say in the 3 weeks 1 day that my boss has been on the job, he has certainly made it clear that he embraces the authorities that are given to him to do prototyping and experimentation and to do it with a purpose.

the technology industry has been consistent in advocating against any policies globally that would require companies to turn over or provide access to source code to governments anywhere.

This is what we need. This is important to our constituents, our customers. You need to do your job.

So the Army is committed to pursuing directed energy.

Lasers have been promised for an awful long time, and they have never held up and delivered what was asked for.

I believe we are very close. And I think right now what we need to do is build trust with our operators so they understand what lasers can do.

The area wage index is neither accurate nor fair, and it needs to be repealed.

the closed hospitals are an average of 21 miles to the next nearest hospital.

this requires the Congress to take action.