Martin Heinrich

There is a Sportsmen's Act that Senator Murkowski and I are working on.

If everything in government worked as well as LWCF we would have a lot of time on our hands.

Do you foresee a path toward eventual full production, as opposed to component production, in the United States to support American jobs?

Do you envision co-production for other systems such as David's Sling?

What steps are being taken in the realm of 'left of launch' technologies such as electronic warfare and cyber?

The NNSA's national laboratories and facilities play a vital role in my state's economy.

Unless we fix the fire borrowing program or the fire borrowing problem that we are going to be playing the zero sum game of chasing one program or another.

I think if we can come up with some proposals that actually seek to grow the pie as opposed to just take away from Peter.

I do not want to see new funding and resources for the timber program come at the expense of existing programs.

The Air Force is committed to maintaining our HH-60G and UH-1 fleets, which have an average age of 24.4 and 47 years, respectively.

Can you please share what is being done to ensure the optimal configuration of our combat search and rescue fleet between helicopters and CV-22s?

Has the Air Force conducted a cost-benefit analysis on recapitalization versus replacement?

How can this committee help Air Force move toward a more efficient, unified, and integrated Total Force training model?

Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico is home to the 58th Special Operations Wing which trains 22,000 students a year who conduct critical search and rescue missions.

I, like you, am optimistic. I am excited about this, and I think taking a regular order pathway and getting on this early and just the bipartisan support we have should bode well for success.

Obviously, all of us are somewhat skeptical about BRAC. I think we should be equally skeptical about seeing our bases hollowed out, and that kind of reinforces for all of us why we need to fix the sequestration mess that we find ourselves…

This is an issue that has drug on far too long.

I would say that your efforts ensured that we can pursue energy independence, the jobs that come with it.

We just simply cannot have a 21st-century space platform when we are operating out of 1960s vintage buildings.

Does this mean that once the current program becomes a program of record and achieves Milestone A it will have the conventional version as part of its requirements for engineering past Milestone B, or will the Air Force come back to it…

Ms. Harrington, you are responsible for maintaining the Department's Emergency Operations Center for nuclear terrorist incidents as well as incidents such as fires and releases of radiation at DOE facilities.

As we watch Pakistan modernize its capability... to contain that piece.

The goal of this legislation is to give business owners and regional academia, even local government greater ability to interface with those resources.

I later secured an amendment in the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing $15 million for the production of the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system in the United States.

Are we pursuing anything similar to what Israel has developed in the form of their directed energy Iron Beam system to protect against short-range rockets, artillery shells, and mortar bombs?