Kelly Ayotte

What is your assessment regarding the role of the National Guard in helping NORTHCOM accomplish its Homeland missions?

What will be the next step after the deployment at APG?

What is the timeline for the deployment at APG?

What are the metrics that will be used to evaluate the deployment at APG?

What does NORTHCOM expect to learn from the deployment at APG?

As we continue to focus on strengthening the security capacities of our partners in South and Central America.

I hope that our President will heed the conditions on the ground so that we can continue to perform this important mission of protecting our country and ensuring that we have this intelligence that has helped us prevent future attacks…

I want to thank all of you for your willingness to serve and for your leadership and for your distinguished service and for all of the sacrifices that you and your families have made for the country and will continue to make.

I think it would be important because, really, the Air Force has been the leader on this issue.

I was honored to work on that with Senator Murray, as well, across the branches.

I am a strong supporter of the A-10. I believe it is the best close air support platform.

I fully agree with Senator Kaine about this technical careers issue in terms of the trades.

There is room for improvement in what cybersecurity information the U.S. Government shares with the private sector, as well as what the private sector shares with the U.S. Government.

The Government may not have insight to malicious cyber activities within privately owned and operated networks in time to enable the private sector to defend itself, or to defend the United States, if necessary.

Would the delay in airlift be longer than is required to activate and train National Guard units?

If our number of strategic airlift aircraft declines to 211, and a major combat operation were to begin, what kinds of delays might we confront?

Would 211 strategic airlift aircraft be sufficient to support one and a half major combat operations?

If 275 strategic airlift aircraft presents challenges to TRANSCOM, what kind of challenges would 211 present?

I support the plan to reduce the number of strategic airlift aircraft to a level of 275 aircraft.

I think that people need to understand that, that he has put potentially at risk American lives and the lives of our allies.

I think that's very important, particularly with what's happening in the Ukraine right now, that we are active in this area in countering any type of actions by the Russians, cyber-attacks or otherwise.

If for some reason, which obviously I would hope that they wouldn't take that type of action, but we'd be prepared to use other options if we had to and could do so?

The President, many of us, are pushing for further economic sanctions, other types of sanctions against Russia for their invasion of Crimea.

The capacity of Air Mobility Command to operate at TRANSCOM's behest and provide refueling around the world is critical to being able to move our forces to the places they need to be when they need to be there.

I'm really pleased the 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease... has been chosen as the top Air National Guard unit to receive the new tankers, the KC-46A.