A new round of BRAC would no doubt affect the laboratory enterprise to some degree.

By the way, Deputy Secretary Dan Poneman has been terrific in my view at pointing out this requirement, and also emphasizing the need to have a source as the administration gets even more aggressive in nonproliferation efforts.

I do not know as much about New Zealand, but it certainly is true with Australia and Canada and the UK.

But I do think that you ought to make your initial assessment at least and let it be known to this subcommittee.

It would be absolutely devastating. We have no plans right now for that.

The threats we face as a nation, unfortunately, are not diminishing based on our fiscal problems.

I think President Calderon has been courageous, and I think he is doing the rights things.

I would hope that you all would speak up about that and work with us to try to ensure that we are not making decisions that short-term seem to be necessary for budget savings but longer-term are going to create the very problems you talked…

He has used the word 'devastating.' He has also said it would hollow out the force.

This all requires funding, and it all requires resources that are being constrained by the first step of the BCA.

I think it is a matter of intelligence and then political pressure. It is just increasing it and ratcheting it up.