Ben Nelson: “I now hear that the 1057th Transportation Company, part of the 37th Theater Supply Command, is not outfitted with…”

Can you explain the importance of preserving your operating spectrum in general and how any movement from it should be paid for and coordinated from your perspective, the Navy's?

There is undoubtedly a foundational level of space capability that regardless of force structure size in DOD, regardless of almost any other decisions made from a budget perspective, that space capability has to continue.

Dodd-Frank contained critical protections to ensure that non-financial end users who use futures contracts in a legitimate manner to hedge against higher prices would not be hampered by unnecessary regulations.

How are we going to make it work? How are we going to, over a longer strategy, make the dollars work to meet the obligations we've undertaken?