Michael D. Griffin: “We have to change from being a technology inventor to a technology user.”

There is no finish line. It is a work in progress and always will be if we want to support peace and freedom in the world.

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 recognition of the erosion of U.S. technological superiority, which was once unquestioned in the world, is what led the Congress to establish the position that I now hold, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

I am a free-market conservative. And if I thought that the market were such as to supply this item... then I would want the government to buy it off the market.