It would be, I think, very beneficial for DOD to have a strong focus on our military dependents.

I want to really look at how we can use STEM activities in education for our military children.

$200 million will cut about 1,500 grants nationwide, give or take.

I'd like you to address that and then tell me what you can see as a possibility, how we, everybody in this room, can work together to have a focus on our military children in school.

I think we owe it to the children, we owe it to their parents, to provide the best STEM opportunities possible.

It seems like as we reduce basic research, though, we're really hurting ourselves in the long-term.

I want on this subcommittee to do everything we can to support DARPA's efforts at investing in those high-risk, high payoffs.

One of the things about this hearing that is exceptional is the fact that before us we have three highly qualified and distinguished women leading large and important technical organizations on behalf of the Nation.

Ms. Harrington, what percentage of the GTRI budget funds activities in Russia?

Ms. Harrington, what additional work could be done in fiscal year 2015 with additional funding?

the fiscal year 2015 request reduces funding for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) by roughly 25 percent relative to last year's appropriation.