Michael D. Griffin: “I am a free-market conservative. And if I thought that the market were such as to supply this item... then I would want…”

I think we depart from that at our peril.

We have to change from being a technology inventor to a technology user.

I want to thank, explicitly, you, Senator Hutchison, Senator Stevens, for bringing your leadership to bear on this issue with our 2005 Authorization Act.

The way to get from experiments into procurement of real live weapons systems is to say that is what we are going to do, appoint people to run those programs, and hold them accountable for delivery.