Andrew P. Hunter: “In essence, this date is direction to the Navy to get started now on a radar development program in a way that best…”

I think competition works well when it is driving innovation, and obviously also can work well to control costs.

I think what today's hearing and what this situation and NATO's eastern flank highlights is the fact that we don't have a tremendous amount of time to wait around for the next great Army to show up in 10 to 15 to 20 years.

The government needs to be very discriminating about how it approaches and how it invests its R&D dollars.

It is concerning; and, of course, it fits a pattern, a long-term pattern of efforts by China to obtain intellectual property and technology from the United States.