Ben Nelson: “The conventional DOD acquisition process is too long and too cumbersome to fit the needs of the many systems that…”

You stress the importance of resiliency and the ability to rapidly reconstitute critical satellite capacity if hostile action or a collision would occur.

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

I think there is concern that the administration is headed down a path to make unilateral reductions in U.S. nuclear weapons.

I firmly agree with the importance of oversight because we are in a government-owned/contractor-operated situation, there are substantial liabilities.