Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ann, in our compelling and lengthy testimony, you mentioned that there are different agencies that oversee programs.

How many times has China attacked us here at home with cyberattacks? It is ongoing.

So, General, do you think that we need to revise the current policy to be able to do that kind of training, to better meet this hybrid warfare or whatever you want to call it threat from Russia?

If we had canceled the Manhattan Project during World War II so that we could build a few more aircraft carriers, I don't think it would have been a good decision.

Do you think that our capability lead over Russia and China is growing or shrinking?

I think it is very important on this subcommittee that we talk about numbers of ships and capacity and whatnot, but sometimes I get a little frustrated when we seem to focus exclusively on that.

Now, this Congress recently passed a science bill, really just a thinly veiled attack on climate science, but it prevented funding for NSF projects that are not in the, quote, 'national interest.'

I was shocked at how little we were doing to counter the Russian hybrid warfare threat.

I realize that there are concerns regarding proprietary information related to SBIR, STTR programs, particularly when the SBIR grant is related to the Department of Defense.

Where traditional metrics, such as how many jobs are created, revenues created, or companies created, are not applicable, we look for output measures instead, like papers and patents.

It is important that we encourage entrepreneurship among these disadvantaged groups.