Jim Cooper: “Congress must come up with a good answer this year.”

I request the witnesses keep their opening remarks to no more than 5 minutes, and that members respect the same time limit for their questioning.

NNSA is undertaking a strategic review of the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation's mission, organization, scope of efforts, and integration with other parts of NNSA, among other things.

I thank the gentleman. I appreciate his kind words about me and do any other members have questions they would like to bring up now?

We have been given the largest missile defense budget by President Biden and his administration.