Michael D. Griffin: “If we treated the Air Force as we do the space program, we wouldn't have any flying aircraft.”

China is the big problem. And I think we need to focus our efforts on first taking care of the big problems.

In my judgment, the Artemis program is excessively complex, unrealistically priced, compromises crew safety, poses very high mission risk of completion, and is highly unlikely to be completed in a timely manner even if successful.

No, I cannot sit here and say that I feel that I've been granted much flexibility by the Congress.

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.