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

Do you believe this forward-deployed radar in Turkey is a significant contribution to our Homeland defense capability?

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

The greatest future enhancement for both Homeland and regional defense in the next 10 years is the development of the PTSS satellites, which will provide fire-control quality track data of raids of hostile ballistic missiles over their…

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