Andrew P. Hunter: “We are gathering our speakers, and I would hope my colleague, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) would be able to…”

You cannot throw money at the problem, and we do not need to be investing government dollars where the private sector is going to invest its own dollars.

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

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.