Ben Nelson: “However, I have significant concerns regarding the administration's stated intention of pursuing proposals and concepts…”

It is encouraging to know that there is that effort at coordination and collaboration because if there is any quick way to lose opportunity or to miss optimization, it is everyone going off on their own way.

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?

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

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?