We are all living with financial hardships.

The expansion of the Section 219 authority that included minor military construction as one of the acceptable categories of use has allowed the laboratories to fund 27 projects related to their core competencies across six laboratories.

The Army is concerned with the growing demand on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competencies, the global competitiveness for STEM talent, and the unbalanced representation of our nation's demographics in STEM fields.

We have been investing in technologies to do affordable missiles that can go out and intercept RAMs.

The Army has a concerted effort in support of historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions HBCU/MSIs.

The Administration apparently has broader priorities which look more at 2014 than what people are going through in 2013.

A lot of the stuff in the Prevention and Public Health Fund is a little bit more on the exotic side.

Over the course of these past 12 years of war, the world has seen firsthand the value and impact that technology brings to the battlefield.

Thank you for your support of DARPA, and for allowing me to testify before you today.

It is important that we complement what the private sector is already developing and that we leverage the work being done by our sister Services, national labs, academia, and partner nations.

I think that if we have both a top-down and a bottom-up approach, we will be able to get a much richer set of models that are workable much more quickly than we do today.