The administration made a series of promises to the Congress in its 2010 Nuclear Posture Review and the 1251 plan.

Since entering office, the Obama administration has demonstrated a lack of interest, quite frankly, and support for missile defense.

The President's missile defense policy must be re-evaluated.

How much would an EIS on an East Coast missile defense site cost? Would it make sense to do an EIS on more than one location, e.g., Ft. Drum and Loring AFB?

I trust the strategy will answer this committee's concern.

Has the Administration seen evidence/intelligence of foreign support--including materiel--for the North Korean, road mobile ICBM?

Why is MDA procuring 6 fewer TPY-2 radars under the FY13 budget and FYDP? What assumptions changed since last year?

Dr. Roberts, you know and we all know that there is concern about cooperation with the systems that North Korea and Iran are developing, both between them, with others, and concerns as to how information is being shared, how these systems…

Who will make the decision to revise the current GMD shot doctrine?

Yet we cut GMD. And General O'Reilly, this budget continues to underfund national missile defense.

As we know, the administration is contributing the EPAA to NATO free of charge. Such a contribution could cost the U.S. as much as $8.5 billion over the course of the FYDP fiscal year 2013 to 2017, possibly even more.

What is the current planning for other than Europe PAAs? What will costs and architectures look like? Force requirements? Burden sharing?

the United States foots the overwhelming majority, perhaps as much as 75%, of the defense spending in NATO.

In today's fiscal environment, we cannot afford such inefficiency and waste, particularly when we are seeing major cuts to the pledged nuclear modernization funding in this year's budget request.

The Congress' role in this matter is to state clearly that it wishes this rebalancing to occur.

This hearing is not like most of the hearings that are taking place however, in that it is not looking directly at a particular agency's fiscal year 2013 budget request.

Some current and former employees of the national labs have expressed concern to this committee that... this is harming their ability to do world-class research.

The NAS study committee identifies a loss of trust between the NNSA and its labs as a key problem...

I believe the problem can be fixed.

The NAS study committee said it had examined many previous reports and efforts to fix the management relationship.

The NAS report notes that the 'evolution' of the labs from nuclear weapons labs to 'national security labs' with a broader mission set is well under way.

management problems continue, in part, because NNSA and DOE have not fully agreed on how NNSA should function within the department as a separately organized agency.

The implementation of the NNSA Act failed to achieve the intended autonomy for NNSA within the Department of Energy.

the original intent of the legislation creating the NNSA has not been realized.

I can't imagine what the rules and regulations would look like if Government had to tell them how they should have done their experiments.