"Dr. Soofer, please provide an anticipated timeline and associated milestones for the Department's Analysis of Alternatives (AOA) for the sea-launched cruise missile?"
"If we don't, we're going to have a gap, and that gap is going to adversely affect our deterrence to the point where it may not be credible."
"I am especially pleased to see included in this legislation policies that I have championed in this Committee for many years."
"Will the Department provide that implementation guidance to this committee?"
"General Rand, we have low-yield nuclear weapons in our triad's airborne leg; how is the development of advanced air defenses impacting our ability to hold targets at risk with these weapons?"
"When you say we're taking it on, is that the Weapons Council?"
"This bill encompasses a variety of priorities that I and many members of this Committee have labored over for, in some cases, many years."
"So with that in mind, can you describe how the Department is translating the NPR into specific guidance?"
"the only country that's been running this race has been the Russians over the last 10, 20 years."
"isn't it true that Moscow deploys a highly capable ballistic missile defense system?"
"Including lasers?"