Even in these tight budgetary times, the Navy budget now contains nearly $70 million, in this year's budget, for a request for the Navy Energy Program, which funds R&D activities s...
DOD continues to spend billions of dollars on alternative energy research in programs at DOD that I think are far less essential than mainta...
My final question is this. In a hearing before this committee, Secretary Hagel responded to this same line of questioning, and he characteri...
For example, the Navy spent $170 million on algae fuel, which costs four times as much as regular fuel, which means, potentially, $120 milli...
Those proposed cuts concern me greatly.
Readiness is my top overarching priority.
Against this real threat, our Nation is committed to the security of South Korea and to our national interests.
We know how real the North Korean threat is as 4 years ago tomorrow, North Korea fired a torpedo sinking the South Korean ship Cheonan killi...
I guess another potential area to deal with that threat is to improve our capacity with regard to missile defense.
Would you agree that, right now, the risk is unacceptably high, in terms of the impact of an EMP attack?
It is $170 million.