Joe Manchin

The total DARPA fiscal year 2015 funding sent to the Service academies was $2.0 million.

Mid-career servicemembers selected for service academy instructor duty often enroll in civilian graduate schools that receive DARPA research funding.

The total DARPA fiscal year 2015 funding sent to academic institutions was 13.4 percent.

Your agency funds research at universities throughout the US. What percentage of DARPA's fiscal year 2015 total research budget went to academic institutions?

In fiscal year 2015, total DARPA funding sent to the Naval Postgraduate School was $1.6 million and to the Air Force Institute of Technology was $50.0 thousand.

This program is extremely helpful for the economy of West Virginia, because we have a corridor which really participates in that.

But, what you're going to--you're telling me right now, you don't put much in the academies.

To Dr. Prabhakar, one of the joys of being a Senator is being able to nominate some of the best and brightest to our military academies.

You're already funding--we already fund the military academies. We already paid once.

Can we get you down to West Virginia? Can I get you down?

Because I think every state is a little bit different here on this, and before you know it it is going to have a snowball effect and we are going to have an energy shortage and be back to where we were before.

I would just say if I can work with your scientists and work with basically NETLs, our National Energy Technology Labs, making sure that we are all concurring on how we can do it and do it right and start forming the rules and regulations.

We need this energy, and we are looking for the proper ways.

The only thing I am asking is would you come and visit the center with me, if I can extend that invitation to you?

That is why Chairman Murkowski and I are co-sponsoring the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System Act to protect communities that are in these high risk areas.

We should avoid policies that make their jobs harder or fail to reflect the importance of their work.

Our sailors, our combat commanders, and our country depend on our public shipyards.

I give a great deal of credit to Senator Crapo for passionately advocating for veterans in Idaho.

I think as it pertains to this, the objective of maybe revisiting the relationship between the service secretaries and the Service Chiefs and the Secretary may not be as related to the question of whether COCOMs have the majority influence.

But 980, I am just saying, is there a number? Is it going to be 1-1, 1-2, 1-3? Where do we need to be as far as our personnel?

The thing is, I think, from your perspective as well--not to be presumptuous about this--but it is much easier to retain a capability than to have to rebuild it.

If we do not listen to the people that have the knowledge such as you on the expertise and we start setting caps and different things that basically sound politically correct and we can sell them back home, it makes no sense at all because…

I do believe that we are increasing risk for modernization as we are talking about here.

Now, to go down to an Army of 450 with increasing commitments... could we sustain 170,000 soldiers overseas for contingency?

We believe that the demand for capacity, scale of land forces is not only going up today, but in the future is going to continue to go up.