I recently co-led a letter with Representative Wittman to Secretary Austin and Deputy Secretary Hicks expressing concerns about the impact the current rate of additional Requests for Forces (RFFs) above the GFMAP has on overtaxing our…

By remaining overly focused on short-term risk, we are trading our readiness for great power competition.

Now, you and I have discussed my American high-speed rail bill, which fundamentally puts high-speed rail on the table as a proven alternative.

If the Biden administration reverses that trend so that America once again leads the world, then this will absolutely not be putting China first, as one of my colleagues claimed.

I would like to draw the witnesses' attention to a more insidious infection of extremism in the ranks...

the Department pays a lot of lip service to technologies of the future like AI, but continues to pour billions of dollars into platforms of the past.

I strongly agree that we should push for increased collaboration, for all the reasons you listed in the report and more.

Last May I released a white paper on the role high-speed rail can play in rebuilding the U.S. economy, not just from this pandemic, but building back better for the future.

I introduced the American High-Speed Rail Act to plan and develop those corridors.

We do some things really well, and many nations admire our freight service. But, as several people have already noted, our passenger rail is pathetically behind the times.

High-speed rail has the capacity to connect many different parts of our country and, in particular, to connect smaller cities that have not taken such a leading role in the tech economy of the last 30 years to larger cities that they lie…