03/06/2023
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"China remains a pacing threat and continues to be the focus as we modernize our military forces."
"China is very actively fielding the systems that it thinks will defeat the United States' ability to project power and we have to respond to that."
"China's continued military modernization, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, space as a contested domain, as well as numerous threats I cannot talk about here, remind us every day that we have no time to w..."
"Yes, sir. In the budget request we fund to IOC, we'll begin launching satellites the end of 2024-early 2025 and reach IOC in 2027."