Ben Nelson: “I'm very much in favor of moving forward with a follow-on treaty.”

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.

We cannot just be catching up or trying to stay at par with the rest of the world or otherwise our defenses are down.

So it is at least somewhat successful in breaking down the stovepipe approach to get cross-fertilization and cross-cooperation within the interagency system?

While the administration may be moving forward in anticipation of a new reduction, anything that it's doing is not intended to be unilateral.