Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
Christian, I'm going to start with you. That seems to make sense. It seems obvious that we should be spending time and money on space, because trying to police or manage the Arctic seems almost impossible from a physical asset point of view.
What kind of money are we looking at here? When you talk about flat budgets, having the same type of budget we had after the Cold War and the shrinking number of forces members, where do you even start in trying to prioritize that? We all know the Arctic is important. We all know that everything you said makes complete and total sense. Where do we start?