About every 6 or 7 hours, there is another billion dollar increase in our deficit.

The hearing will come to order. The subcommittee meets today to receive testimony on F-22 pilot physiological issues.

I understand that on many of these reconstruction projects that we work in concert with the State Department.

So all the reports that I have seen of these contract problems, none of those are in either one of our categories of contracts?

I think that it is very unlikely that even if they had a nuclear weapon capable of reaching our shores that they would launch it towards--why would they need to do that if they could simply put a medium-range missile on a ship and launch…

If North Korea were to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that could carry a nuclear weapon...

As we review your testimony and the question and answer period, I am sure that we will have additional questions for the record in discharge of our responsibilities for oversight.

The committee is familiar with the findings from the OSD Helicopter Survivability Task Force which concluded that a large percentage of aircraft fatalities occur as a result of Degraded Visual Environment (DVE).

Can you explain why the DOD is poised to waste the $4 billion we have already spent on these aircraft that are currently providing valuable intelligence to the warfighter?

Our budget crisis demands that we maximize the efficiency for every program.

Just 7 months ago, Deputy Secretary Carter certified in writing to the Congress that the Global Hawk system was 'essential to national security,' there was no other acceptable capability to meet the requirement, and the Global Hawk was…